· Private foundation
Billie and Gillis Thomas Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of BILLIE AND GILLIS THOMAS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $468k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $100,000 |
| SM WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| SHELTON SCHOOL LANDMARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS | $50,000 |
| WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $41,267 |
| JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL & EVAL CENTER | $39,900 |
| DALLAS ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOUNDATIO | $31,690 |
| JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL & EVAL CENTER | $31,675 |
| JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL & EVAL CENTER | $29,175 |
| JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL & EVAL CENTER | $29,175 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $26,465 |
| GREENHILL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $570k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- TCTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +32%
- JSJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $359k · revenue +69%
- SWSM Wright Foundation4× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $74k
- SCSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +10%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +32%
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.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
To teach our students to be life-long learners, who will actively participate in their own learning, remain engaged in the educational process and show mastery of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
Truth academy works in partnership with families to integrate high-quality education with biblical truth and discipleship in order to train students, spiritually and academically, how to operate in their god-given purpose and live out a…
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenhill School and the most unlike its peers is Parker County Miracle League. 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 45 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 16% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 43 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 CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SM Wright Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds DWELL WITH DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds MI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANTEGO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREENHILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds PARKER COUNTY MIRACLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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 · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Celanese Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Hillcrest Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Capital for Kids · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Billie and Gillis Thomas 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.
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.