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Berry R Cox Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $210k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Texas System | $250,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | $210,000 |
| Council on Foreign Relations | $20,000 |
| Highland Park United Methodist | $15,000 |
| Texas Park and Wildlife Foundation | $10,000 |
| Texas Tech Foundation | $5,000 |
| Union Development Corporation | $5,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $4,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $3,500 |
| Go Texan Henderson County | $2,000 |
| Highland Park Presbyterian Day School | $1,000 |
| Greater Houston Community Foundation | $1,000 |
| S M Wright Foundation | $750 |
| Southern Methodist University | $250 |
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 (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 28% of Berry R Cox 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. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 67% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k 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
Southern Methodist University8× · 2017–2024 · $786k · revenue +57%- ASALCUIN SCHOOL4× · 2017–2021 · $665k · revenue +68%
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $166k · revenue +637%
Funded once
- CMChildren's Miracle Networkone grant, 2019 · $25k
- EOEDUCATION OPENS DOORS INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -95%
- NHNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +93%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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…
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 support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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 texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
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.
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Responsible Television. 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 31 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.
56 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. 56 of the 75 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ALCUIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Union Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR OPEN DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas SPARK ↗
- Who funds LYRIC STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY PARK SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GO TEXAN OF HENDERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · W W Lynch Foundation · The Hoak Foundation · George E Seay III 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 Berry R Cox 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.
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
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.
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