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Bodenheimer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$285k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$415kHealth$233kEnvironment$130kArts & Culture$129kReligion$119kYouth Development$102kInternational$67kEducation$44kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF LAKE LAMOND$100,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH LONGV$50,000
ASBURY HOUSE$40,000
TEXAS AM 12TH MAN FOUNDATION$30,000
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL$25,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF GREGG COUNTY$10,000
THE FIRST TEE OF THE PINEY WOODS$5,000
CHRISTUSGOOD SHEPHERD HOSPITAL MEDI$5,000
HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES FOUNDATION$5,000
ET AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERI$2,500
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$2,500
STORIES AND SONGS LLC$2,500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$2,000
NEWGATE MISSION$2,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–22, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $24k → 14%TRINITY KIDS INC: $1k → 11%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $18k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 28 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
14

Total granted

$1.2M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+32%

Still filing today

32%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +145%
  • BF
    BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +120%
  • 4M
    413 Ministries dba TCS Foundation
    5× · 2017–2022 · $40k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • BI
    BUCKNER INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +117%
  • LH
    LOU HOLTZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
  • PC
    PINE COVE WOODS CAMP
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

1
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
2
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
3
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
4
The Good Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
5
Texas Back Institute Research Foundation
Health
6
Jack S Thousand Days Foundation Inc

Our mission is to support children and families around the world facing Batten disease and to extend a helping hand to communities across Texas impacted by childhood disease.

Health
7
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
8
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
9
Trevor Wade Daniel Foundation

To provide family services to families of inpatient children from multiple hospitals including: childrens hospital (dallas, tx) dell childrens hospital (austin, tx), texas childrens hospital (houston, tx) st. lukes hospital (boise, id) and…

Human Services
10
Texas Heart Institute

The mission of Texas Heart Institute (THI) is to reduce the devastating toll of cardiovascular disease through innovative and progressive programs in research, education, and improved patient care.

Health
11
Foster Angels of Central Texas Foundation

The organizations mission is to improve the lives of the children in foster care in central texas.

Human Services
12
Texans Care for Children Inc

Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buckner Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

17 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. 17 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASBURY HOUSE: $320,250 · OtherASBURY HOUSEFRIENDS OF LAKE LAMOND: $120,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF LAKE LAMONDTEXAS AM 12TH MAN FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherTEXAS AM 12TH MAN FOUNDATIONBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF GREGG COUNTY: $80,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF GREGG COUNTYFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH LONGV: $50,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH LONGVTHE FIRST TEE OF THE PINEY WOODS: $39,610 · OtherTEXAS AM: $30,538 · Other+23 more: $180,855 · Other+23 moreTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $180,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RI…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $16,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'…+3 more: $5,200 · HealthBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $49,500 · Human ServicesBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $17,500 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS: $6,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services413 Ministries dba TCS Foundation: $40,000 · ReligionTHE HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPRING HILL ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,700 · Philanthropy
Other$911,253Health$201,200Human Services$74,000Religion$40,000Youth Development$40,000Philanthropy$36,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $180,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $49,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budget413 Ministries dba TCS Foundation: $40,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSPRING HILL ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $6,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TEXAS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Devlin Foundation Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTexas Oncology Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST TEXAS ANGEL NETWORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEEP LONGVIEW BEAUTIFUL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds 413 Ministries dba TCS Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPRING HILL ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds THE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS ↗
  • Who funds HIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Devlin Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds Texas Oncology Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS ANGEL NETWORK INC ↗

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.

East Texas Communities FoundationTX13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Texas Communities Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Bodenheimer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bodenheimer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bodenheimer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bodenheimer Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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