Texas · Nonprofit
MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION
MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,750 to it, the largest being HIGH PLAINS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION ($43,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $153M
What Mary E Bivins Foundation does
Mission
The mary e. Bivins foundation, a texas non-profit corporation, was formed in 1949. The purposes / mission for which the corporation was formed are: (a) to operate for the benefit of nursing homes established for worthy, aged, and needy persons. (b) to operate for the benefit of nursing homes established for worthy, aged, and needy persons suffering from alzheimers disease. (c) to operate for the benefit of worthy religious undertakings, including the education of ministers to preach the christian religion. (d) to operate for the benefit of worthy charitable organizations or undertakings which serve worthy, aged, or needy persons. (e) to be organized and operated in a manner to support or benefit one or more specified publicly supported organizations pursuant to section 1.509(a)-4(d) of the treasury regulations. (f) to be organized and operated in a manner to exclusively support religious, charitable, or educational purposes pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. (g
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The mary e. Bivins foundation has a primary purpose of supporting the lee bivins foundation, bivins village, and bivins village ii in order to provide housing, as well as programs & services, so that elderly citizens can continue to live fulfulling & dignified lives.
Provide community & regional funding for charitable purposes which address the non-recurring needs of qualified non-profit organizations committed to improving & enriching the quality of life in the 26 counties of the texas panhandle. Preference is given to purposes that assist in furthering the foundation's primary philanthropic objective to eldercare.
$3,103,951 spentof which $2,739,298 as grants92% of program spendingProvides funds to assist worthy christian religious undertakings that address critical community needs to educate ministers to preach the christian religion. Scholarships are currently restricted to upper-classmen seeking an undergraduate or graduate education leading to a bachelors, masters, doctorate in a field that prepares the student to preach the christian religion.
$257,500 spentof which $257,500 as grants8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,361,451.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $109M to $139M (+27%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
42% of MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Steve Urban
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $34k → $10k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $46M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Mary E Bivins Trust); $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Amarillo Area Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Bivins Village · exempt
- Lee Bivins Foundation · exempt
- Bivins Village Phase II · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION?
- MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,750 to it, the largest being HIGH PLAINS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION ($43,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $43,750 in grants to MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION?
- HIGH PLAINS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing