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WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION
WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,204,523 to it, the largest being HIGH PLAINS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION ($4,802,040). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $167M
What West Texas A&M Univ Foundation does
Mission
The foundation supports west texas a&m university, an institution of higher education, and the students of wtamu by receiving and administering gifts from the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships paid directly to wtamu for the benefit of specific students.
$3,055,818 spentof which $3,055,818 as grants41% of program spendingUniversity support for various education needs and matching funds for wtamu endowment.
$4,446,020 spentof which $4,446,020 as grants59% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,501,838.
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 2017 to 2018, from $60M to $90M (+49%).
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.
53% of WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 8 funders to 22 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $431k.
9 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.8M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Amarillo Area Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 63% · 2019 16% · 2020 66% · 2021 80% · 2022 45% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“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
45% of WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
89% of WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV 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. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.1M
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 WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV 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 WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION?
- WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,204,523 to it, the largest being HIGH PLAINS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION ($4,802,040). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $11,204,523 in grants to WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION?
- HIGH PLAINS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,802,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing