Texas · Nonprofit
PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES
PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,152,197 to it, the largest being MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION ($474,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Panhandle Community Services does
Mission
Our mission is to be a significant influence in meeting the changing needs of panhandle families by providing direct servies and encouragment to turn poverty into opportunity and to attain a higher quality of life by achieving self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Housing services - provides rental assistance to help low-income families afford decent, safe, and sanitary rental housing. Approximately 2,103 households served.
$14,356,913 spentof which $13,095,192 as grants$77,000 earned by the program52% of program spendingTransportation services - transportation program provides transporation service in non-urban areas. Approximately 166,169 one-way trips served approximately 4,343 clients.
$6,524,187 spent$1,923,315 earned by the program24% of program spendingEmergency services - provides utility assistance to low-income individuals to assist them with energy bills, including gas, electric, and propane. Approximately 2,863 households served.
$4,248,922 spentof which $3,662,223 as grants15% of program spendingSenior activities - provides assistance in engaging persons 55 and over to meet critical community needs while enriching the lives of volunteers. Approximately 51,076 individuals served. Community services - provides a variety of services to reduce poverty and empower low-income families to become self-sufficient. Approximately 588 individuals were under case management. Weatherization services - weatherization provides services to help low-income people improve residential energy efficiency. Approximately 76 homes were weatherized.
$2,621,442 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,751,464.
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 $13M to $17M (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 89% · 2018 90% · 2019 89% · 2020 93% · 2021 92% · 2022 92% · 2023 91% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $63k → $244k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 funders by total. 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 31% · 2022 37% · 2023 33% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.9M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$1.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Department of Agriculture$357k
- Department of the Treasury$135k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,152,197 to it, the largest being MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION ($474,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,152,197 in grants to PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- MARY E BIVINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $474,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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