· Private foundation
Arkay Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $22,300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $20,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| BERKSHIRE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FILM INDEPENDENT INC | $10,000 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SALESMANSHIP CLUB OF DALLAS | $1,000 |
| CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $800 |
| KERA | $500 |
| AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND | $500 |
| GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Vanderbilt University7× · 2018–2025 · $171k · revenue +65%- BHBaylor Health Care System Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +80%
- TCTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- MAMD ANDERSONone grant, 2017 · $36k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TBTexas Book Festivalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +80%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Trec's mission is to cultivate relationships in the commercial real estate industry to catalyze community investment, influence policy, propel careers and develop the leaders of tomorrow.we believe relationships are the lifeblood of career…
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Highland Park Library. 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
79 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. 79 of the 116 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Columbus School for Girls ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
- Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
- Who funds BALLET METROPOLITAN INC ↗
- Who funds Taking Care of Texas ↗
- Who funds Educational Opportunities Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds TWIGS OF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Shirley & William S McIntyre Foundation · Hegi Family Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · The Addy 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 Arkay Foundation Inc 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.
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.