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Boone 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.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$6.8MEducation$5.3MEnvironment$4.6MPhilanthropy$3.9MCivil Rights$2.1MHuman Services$1.5MEmployment$1.0MYouth Development$810kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+8 grants · $2.9M
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Trust for Public Land$1,000,000
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas$434,000
Honored Foundation$250,000
ACLU Foundation Inc$250,000
Trinity Park Conservancy$250,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of Am$250,000
Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$250,000
Commit$250,000
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex$200,000
Hopewell Fund$200,000
Abide Women's Health Services$166,666
Greenspace Dallas$150,000
Viola's House$150,000
Big Thought$100,000
Media Matters for America$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Intermountain Children's Home: $30k → 9%Dignity Project: $25k → 12%Hostage US Inc: $25k → 6%Dignity Project: $10k → 12%Hostage US Inc: $5k → 6%UpTogether: $100k → 10%Warren Village Inc: $25k → 12%Warren Village Inc: $20k → 12%Family Promise of Greater Denver: $133k → 12%Family Promise of Greater Denver: $125k → 12%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $200k → 10%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $200k → 10%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $200k → 10%Power to Decide: $350k → 14%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $50k → 10%Planned Parenthood Advocates of Tex: $50k → 10%Viola's House: $150k → 14%Viola's House: $150k → 14%Viola's House: $150k → 14%Empowering the Masses: $10k → 14%Viola's House: $10k → 14%Empowering the Masses: $10k → 14%Viola's House: $10k → 14%The Afiya Center: $75k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $200k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $100k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $25k → 14%Veteran Women's Enterprise Center: $4k → 14%The Family Place: $50k → 14%The Afiya Center: $25k → 14%Heart of Courage: $10k → 14%Heart of Courage: $10k → 14%Bachman Lake Together: $10k → 14%Metrocrest Services: $250k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MT
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
TX

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Boone 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, 63% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 67% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Boone Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 63 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
48

Total granted

$24M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+6%

Still filing today

84%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +113%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +4%
  • PF
    PARKLAND FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • PT
    POWER TO DECIDE
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +6%
  • MS
    METROCREST SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +4%
  • FII - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -75%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
2
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

4
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
5
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
6
Texas Tribune Inc

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…

Education
7
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
8
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
9
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health provides comprehensive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of the individual, advocates…

Health
10
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
11
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.

12
Achieve Now

Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ignite and the most unlike its peers is Abide Womens Health Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyLocal Food System Organizat…School District FoundationsAddiction Recovery ServicesCommunity Food PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesLocal History MuseumsAnimal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringFood Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Health Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr16%12%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr10%24%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%13%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr10%34%35–55yr13%12%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/105
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,699

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.

05the grantee network

104 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/104
Grantees still filing
69/104
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $2,000,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GR…PARKLAND FOUNDATION — $1,900,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDER…ABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SERVICES — $514,998 · HealthABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SERV…MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $450,000 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH PO…+3 more — $275,000 · HealthHonorED Foundation — $1,000,000 · EducationHonorED Foundat…COMMIT2DALLAS — $900,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASIGNITE — $400,000 · EducationIGNITEUNITED TO LEARN — $335,000 · EducationUNITED TO LEARNMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $325,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS F…DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL — $300,000 · EducationDALLAS AFTERSCH…CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 · EducationPaul Quinn College — $160,000 · Education+8 more — $382,220 · Education+8 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $2,951,612 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR …Greenspace Dallas — $800,000 · EnvironmentGreenspace Dal…+1 more — $15,000 · EnvironmentTexas Women's Foundation — $825,000 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $300,000 · OtherEDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC — $250,000 · OtherBIG THOUGHT — $600,000 · OtherBIG THOUGHTFAIR PARK FIRST — $500,000 · OtherFAIR PARK FIRSTTrinity Park Conservancy — $750,000 · OtherTrinity Park ConservancySOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION — $500,000 · OtherSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREE…+55 more — $3,495,780 · Other+55 moreUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $1,601,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …THE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $600,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS …HOPEWELL FUND — $350,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FU…AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $150,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $80,800 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS — $700,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PAR…VIOLAS HOUSE — $470,000 · Human ServicesVIOLAS HOUS…POWER TO DECIDE — $350,000 · Human ServicesPOWER TO DE…FOR OAK CLIFF — $325,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CLI…FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC — $258,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROM…METROCREST SERVICES — $250,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST …THE AFIYA CENTER — $100,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL — $100,000 · Human Services+12 more — $339,200 · Human Services+12 moreTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $875,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · Civil RightsACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $200,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $123,500 · Civil Rights
Health$6,139,998Education$4,002,220Environment$3,766,612Other$7,220,780Philanthropy$2,931,800Human Services$2,892,200Civil Rights$1,948,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $2,951,612 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $2,000,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION — $1,900,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $1,601,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHonorED Foundation — $1,000,000 over 5y, 67% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS — $900,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $875,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation — $825,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetGreenspace Dallas — $800,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetTrinity Park Conservancy — $750,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS — $700,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetBIG THOUGHT — $600,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SERVICES — $514,998 over 4y, 20% of budgetSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetFAIR PARK FIRST — $500,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVIOLAS HOUSE — $470,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $450,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetIGNITE — $400,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER TO DECIDE — $350,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN — $335,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF — $325,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $325,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL — $300,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER DENVER INC — $258,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC — $250,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $225,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB — $225,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP ISD INC — $200,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTexas Appleseed — $200,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPaul Quinn College — $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDELIGHTED TO DOULA BIRTH SERVICES — $150,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $124,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AFIYA CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Texas Women's FoundationTX59.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Women's Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · George & Fay Young Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Byrne Family Foundation Trust · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse 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 Boone 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Boone Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Boone 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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