How much does Black Family Foundation give?

Black Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $44,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Black Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Community Improvement (12%), Religion (11%).

Who are Black Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Forest Hills Security Program ($46k), Marble Falls Church of Christ ($42k), Round Mtn Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ($23k).

Does Black Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Black Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Black Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Black Family Foundation based?

Black Family Foundation is based in TX.

Black Family Foundation

Black Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Black Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$44k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$130kCommunity Improvement$46kReligion$44kYouth Development$37kPhilanthropy$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$34kHuman Services$23kHealth$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $34k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$5,750

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MARBLE FALLS CHURCH OF CHRIST	$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB	$5,750
ROUND MOUNTAIN VFD	$5,750
NEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC	$5,750
PHOENIX CENTER	$5,750
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$5,000
WHITE ROCK LAKE CONSERVANCY	$5,000
FOREST HILLS SECURITY PROGRAM	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$314k · 13 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$314k

$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+68%

Still filing today

69%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

FH
Forest Hills Security Program
6× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +16%
RM
ROUND MTN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
5× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +10%
NH
NEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +36%

Funded once

BS
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $15k
BC
BLINN COLLEGE FINANCIAL AIDE
one grant, 2019 · $6k
TA
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2017 · $5k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Sand Hills Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide fire protection, education, emergency medical treatment and rescue services to approx 140 sq miles in guadalupe county texas.

Public Safety & Disaster

South Brazos County Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department, providing fire, rescue, and medical services to a population of approximately 22,000 residents, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Public Safety & Disaster

Dallas Volunteer Fire Dept

To protect lives and property

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North Central Texas Medical Foundation

Health

Dallas Police Helicopter Foundation

Public Safety & Disaster

Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System Foundation

Supporting the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System

Public Safety & Disaster

Pecan Plantation Volunteer Fire Dpt & Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provides protection of property and preservation of life from and during fire or other emergencies within the area of its operation in hood and johnson counties, texas. also, provides rescue and various other emergency services in the…

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Nocona Rural Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.

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Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation

To provide financial support and programs for fallen officer families. To raise awareness and advocate for national issues impacting officers.

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University of North Texas Health Science Center At Ft Worth Health Systems

To improve the health and quality of life for the people of texas and beyond through excellence in education, research, clinical care, community engagement and to provide national leadership in primary care.

Health

Scotland Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster

Indian Creek Volunteer Fire Dept

Indian creek volunteer fire department provides fire, rescue, and emergency medical services to the indian creek fire district in cooke county, texas.

Public Safety & Disaster

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Horizons Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Johnson City Vol Fire Dept. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/15

Grantees still filing

13/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$211,674Community Improvement$46,000Education$32,995Recreation & Sports$29,000Public Safety & Disaster$27,294Philanthropy$21,250Health$13,000Human Services$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Black Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home