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Anthony Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$271k
Granted FY2021
32
Grants FY2021
8
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

94% of Anthony Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Communities Foundation Of Texas Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Anthony Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $271k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

13
’17
16
’18
19
’19
25
’20
23
’21
13
’22
18
’23
10
’24
6
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$1.2MEducation$308kReligion$193kInternational$97kHuman Services$67kHousing & Shelter$51kEnvironment$48kHealth$44kOther$0
02FY2021 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k25 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $136k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS$72,000
LITERACY ACHIEVES$40,000
GIVEWELL FOUNDATION$30,000
PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
CARPENTER'S SHELTER$20,000
CITY SQUARE$11,000
CHILDREN OF UGANDA$10,000
BIG HOPE$7,500
FAMILY PLACE FOUNDATION$5,000
SRI SIVA VISHNU TEMPLE$5,000
CHRIST CHURCH$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$5,000
BRYANS HOUSE$3,000
LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS$2,500
JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LA POSADA PROVIDENCIA: $3k → 23%LA POSADA PROVIDENCIA: $1k → 23%LA POSADA PROVIDENCIA: $500 → 23%INCARNATION HOUSE: $3k → 14%INCARNATION HOUSE: $1k → 14%INCARNATION HOUSE: $1k → 14%CHRISTIANWORKS FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%CHRISTIANWORKS FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $11k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY: $500 → 14%TO BE LIKE ME: $1k → 14%HEARTHOUSE: $25k → 14%VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $3k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $3k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
NE
WV
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
OK
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 22% of Anthony Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Anthony Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$792k · 43 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2021, 20 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
27

Total granted

$792k
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+14%

Still filing today

60%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PH
    PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN
    8× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +501%
  • CS
    CARPENTER'S SHELTER INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +57%
  • TI
    TERRELL ISD EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $37k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • HH
    HEART HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • VM
    VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +97%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
5
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
6
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
7
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
8
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
9
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
10
Presbyterian Medical Services

Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.

Health
11
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
12
Christel House International Inc

Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc and the most unlike its peers is African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Christian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsChristian Youth CampsElementary Literacy TutoringPregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…School District FoundationsIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr10%33%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr10%16%35–55yr13%70%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,738

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 93 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/59
Grantees still filing
38/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $1,156,692 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC+2 more — $11,500 · PhilanthropyLITERACY ACHIEVES — $197,000 · OtherLITERACY ACHIEVESPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN — $146,600 · OtherPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH …GIVEWELL FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherGIVEWELL FOUNDATION+55 more — $251,025 · Other+55 moreCHILDREN OF UGANDA — $41,000 · InternationalAFS-USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $9,000 · InternationalLEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS — $7,000 · International+5 more — $9,000 · InternationalHEART HOUSE — $25,000 · Human ServicesVICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE — $11,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY CO — $7,500 · Human ServicesEVERY AVENUE — $4,500 · Human ServicesLa Posada Providencia — $4,000 · Human Services+3 more — $3,500 · Human ServicesTERRELL ISD EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC — $36,700 · EducationLUMIN EDUCATION — $6,500 · EducationThe Brookwood Community Inc — $6,250 · EducationALCUIN SCHOOL — $5,500 · EducationUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationCATCH UP & READ INC — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · EnvironmentDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $3,000 · Environment+1 more — $350 · EnvironmentCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE HOUSE INC — $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$1,168,192Other$669,625International$76,000Human Services$70,500Education$62,950Environment$48,350Housing & Shelter$42,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $1,156,692 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN — $146,600 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN OF UGANDA — $41,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTERRELL ISD EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC — $36,700 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART HOUSE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetVICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUKIRK SMU — $12,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetWELL COMMUNITY — $11,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCITYSQUARE — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINISTRY OF HOPE INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL — $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC — $10,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAFS-USA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBigHope — $7,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS — $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc — $6,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALCUIN SCHOOL — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY AVENUE — $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLa Posada Providencia — $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $3,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUR RESCUE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP AND RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY RIVER MISSION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATCH UP & READ INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONE MAN'S TREASURE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPromise Hill Project — $2,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARION MEDICAL MISSION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Works For Children Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRISE ADVENTURES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTO BE LIKE ME — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF UGANDA ↗
  • Who funds CARPENTER'S SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TERRELL ISD EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UKIRK SMU ↗
  • Who funds WELL COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
  • Who funds MINISTRY OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
  • Who funds JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AFS-USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds BigHope ↗
  • Who funds HOPE SUPPLY CO ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALCUIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Rees-Jones Founda…United Way of Metropo…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Texas Women's Foundat…Chi Omega Education a…Capital for KidsCraig and Kathryn Hal…Hillcrest FoundationThe Aileen and Jack P…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX40.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Chi Omega Education and Charity Fund of Dallas · Capital for Kids · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Anthony Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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