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Belmont Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$235k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$662kEducation$598kRecreation & Sports$353kHealth$235kHuman Services$234kCommunity Improvement$100kPhilanthropy$69kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
$18,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$50k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
12TH MAN FOUNDATION$95,000
IRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$32,000
ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$28,000
ROARING GAP FOUNDATION$25,000
IRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$20,000
IRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$18,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
PAT MATHERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
EDGEMERE CHAPEL$1,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL$500
ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL$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 (FY17–20, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%PAT MATHERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PAT MATHERS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDATION: $5k → 14%PAT MATHERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS: $25k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS: $15k → 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.

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.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 20 repeat orgs$559k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
16

Total granted

$1.7M
$518k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • IS
    IRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · $328k · revenue +184%
  • TA
    Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $253k · revenue +55%
  • UO
    University of Dallas
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • BI
    BAYLOR IRVING HEATHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $133k
  • TO
    THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -94%
  • IP
    IRVING POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -60%

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
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
2
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
3
Dallas College Foundation Inc

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.

Education
4
Dallas International University

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

Education
5
Communities Foundation of Texas Inc

The foundation is committed to serving charitable needs both domestically and abroad through charitable grants and services at the discretion of the board of trustees.

Philanthropy
6
Irving Healthcare Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Medical Center at Irving, to encourage broad-based public support, and to advance its medical objectives including sponsorship of patient care, research, and educational and…

Health
7
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
8
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
9
Trellis Foundation

We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…

Human Services
10
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

11
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
12
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Irving Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pat Mathers Scholarship Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%9%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr10%27%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr16%54%20–35yr10%34%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/26
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,778

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.

04the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $328,000 · OtherIRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONBAYLOR IRVING HEATHCARE FOUNDATION — $133,000 · OtherBAYLOR IRVING HEATHCARE FOUNDATIONCURE FOR ALL SEASONS — $50,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY-IRVING — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIRVING FAMILY ADVOCACY CNTR INC — $40,000 · OtherTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Other+22 more — $291,250 · Other+22 moreLYRIC STAGE INC — $650,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC STAGE INCTexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation — $253,080 · EducationTexas A&M Universit…University of Dallas — $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Dalla…Texas A&M Foundation — $25,000 · EducationTexas A&M Foundatio…+2 more — $20,000 · EducationIrving Cares Inc — $68,750 · Human ServicesBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesPAT MATHERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Community ImprovementIRVING POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Independence Fund Inc — $32,000 · Public Benefit
Other$982,250Arts & Culture$650,000Education$398,080Human Services$123,750Community Improvement$100,000Youth Development$50,000Public Benefit$32,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLYRIC STAGE INC — $650,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetIRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $328,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetTexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation — $253,080 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Dallas — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIrving Cares Inc — $68,750 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetIRVING POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetIRVING FAMILY ADVOCACY CNTR INC — $40,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc — $32,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEACHING TRUST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPAT MATHERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetDURHAM ACADEMY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIFESPACE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 LYRIC STAGE INC
  • Who funds IRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation
  • Who funds University of Dallas
  • Who funds THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Irving Cares Inc
  • Who funds IRVING POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE
  • Who funds BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC
  • Who funds IRVING FAMILY ADVOCACY CNTR INC
  • Who funds The Independence Fund Inc
  • Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation
  • Who funds THE TEACHING TRUST
  • Who funds PAT MATHERS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DURHAM ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE LIFESPACE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES

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 Foundation of Texas IncTX25.8× affinity12 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 · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Belmont 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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