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Bird 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Botanical Research Institute of Texas | $500,000 |
| Fort Worth Country Day | $150,000 |
| Texas Christian University | $20,000 |
| Charlotte Hornets Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BRBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC3× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +74%
- ACACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +64%
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- UGUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant Countygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +67%
- MMM2G MHIgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +27%
- USUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMSone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -37%
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.
Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…
To bring collaborative, systemic change for students in order to improve overall quality of life and to position tarrant county as a leading producer of high-quality talent.
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 trinity school is to be a college preparatory community that provides a nurturing environment to enrich the mind, strengthen the body, enliven the soul, and inspire servant leadership.
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
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 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…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
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…
Avance creates pathways to economic mobility for predominately latino families through high quality, culturally responsive, two-generation programming that ensures school-readiness for young children and opportunities for parents to build…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Preserve International. 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 38 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 29 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 BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds M2G MHI ↗
- Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PROGRESS FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC ↗
- Who funds DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Gregory a and Laura E Bird Foundation · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · R4 Foundation · The Morris Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter 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 Bird 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.
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