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Buehring Family Foundation

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$48kReligion$46kEducation$40kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$7kHuman Services$7kInternational$4kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $72k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$39,300
ST PATRICK PATS CLUB$32,800
DALLAS ARBORETUM$3,500
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS$2,750
ST PATRICK CHURCH$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,800
EXCHANGE CLUB LH$1,250
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$250
FOREST MEADOW MID SCHOOL$250
FOREST LANE ACADEMY$250
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 (FY19–22, $2k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FEED LAKE HIGHLANDS: $1k → 14%FEED LAKEHIGHLANDS: $1k → 14%FEED LAKE HIGHLANDS: $305 → 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172k · 16 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
45

Total granted

$172k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+17%

Still filing today

44%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    3× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +92%
  • DA
    DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +13%
  • AO
    ARK OF THE RAINBOW
    5× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • SP
    SPS PATS CLUB
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
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
Southern Sector Health Initiative

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
2
Dallas Children's Advocacy Center

Our mission is to improve the lives of abused children in dallas county and provide national leadership on child abuse issues.

Human Services
3
Dallas Youth Athletic Association

Our mission is to promote education, leadership, disciple, health and wellness through sports.

Recreation & Sports
4
Dallas Leadership Foundation

To identify, affirm, and develop leaders to transform communities.

Public Benefit
5
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
6
Dfw Cares for Kids

Provide donated items to families

Community Improvement
7
Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation

To implement solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community. we collaborate with others as well as create signature, evidence-based ways to improve the communities where people live, work, learn…

Social Science
8
The Dallas Morning News Charities

For 40 years, The Dallas Morning News Charities has been dedicated to fighting hunger and homelessness throughout North Texas. Thanks to the generosity of our community, weve raised more than $38.5 million to support local nonprofits that…

Philanthropy
9
Bread for Our Children

Provide nutrition meals for communities in the Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas areas

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10
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
11
Trinity Athletics

To use functional fitness to raise a generation of Servant Leaders in North Texas

Youth Development
12
State Fair of Texas

The state fair of texas celebrates all things texan by promoting agriculture, education, and community involvement through quality entertainment in a family-friendly environment. the state fair of texas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arboretum Inc. 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 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATS CLUB: $42,700 · OtherPATS CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $39,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST PATRICKS SCHOOL: $37,765 · OtherST PATRICKS SCHOOLST PATRICK PATS CLUB: $32,800 · OtherST PATRICK PATS CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $23,450 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST PATRICKS CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $14,750 · OtherGRACE PROJECT: $13,250 · Other+53 more: $79,722 · Other+53 moreDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,721 · EnvironmentARK OF THE RAINBOW: $3,680 · EducationFeed Lake Highlands Inc: $2,305 · Human ServicesYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED: $100 · Human ServicesAmerican Heart Association Inc: $750 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $500 · HealthForerunner Mentoring: $1,150 · Youth DevelopmentEXCHANGE CLUB OF LAKE HIGHLANDS INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$298,737Environment$3,721Education$3,680Human Services$2,405Health$1,250Youth Development$1,150Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,721 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARK OF THE RAINBOW: $3,680 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFeed Lake Highlands Inc: $2,305 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB OF LAKE HIGHLANDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WARREN CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER DALLAS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE HIGHLANDS AREA BAND CLUB DBA LAKE HIGHLANDS AREA BAND CLUB: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEW ANIMAL CLINIC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED: $100 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 NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ARK OF THE RAINBOW ↗
  • Who funds ARBORETUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Feed Lake Highlands Inc ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Pamper Lake Highlands ↗
  • Who funds Forerunner Mentoring ↗
  • Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB OF LAKE HIGHLANDS 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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX19.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Buehring Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buehring Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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