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Byrne Family Foundation at a glance

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Byrne Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$101k
Granted FY2018
4
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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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 2018.

Education$236kCommunity Improvement$105kHealth$43kPhilanthropy$27kEmployment$25kHuman Services$16kArts & Culture$10kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2018 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP$75,000
DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB$15,000
PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL INC$10,000
NATIONAL CENTER OF FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–17, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $4k → 14%PATRIOT PAWS: $15k → 5%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $3k → 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 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 Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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2
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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3
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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4
Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health
5
Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation

The dallas tourism public improvement district ("dtpid") is a public improvement district dedicated to improving convention and group hotel bookings and hotel room night consumption in the city of dallas, texas.

Community Improvement
6
Dallas Regional Chamber

Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.

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7
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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8
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
9
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
10
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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11
Dallas Innovation Alliance

The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a 501(c)(3) public-private consortium of public, private, civic and academia to support smart city initiatives in Dallas. Our definition of a Smart City is one at the intersection of community, data…

Community Improvement
12
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Covenant House California. 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

21 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. 21 of the 23 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIPP DALLAS-FORT WORTH INC: $100,000 · OtherKIPP DALLAS-FORT WORTH INCTHE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP: $75,000 · OtherTHE COMMIT PARTNERSHIPTHE TEACHING TRUST: $25,000 · OtherTHE TEACHING TRUSTDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $23,000 · OtherDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC+3 more: $7,500 · OtherTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATIONCOMMIT2DALLAS: $25,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLAS826LA: $15,000 · Education826LATeach for America Inc: $15,000 · EducationTeach for Amer…DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationDALLAS AFTERSC…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17,995 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $8,500 · PhilanthropyDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $4,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $2,500 · Human ServicesHoly Cross Ministries of Utah: $16,500 · HealthBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $3,500 · HealthPublic Radio International Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$230,500Community Improvement$100,000Education$61,000Philanthropy$32,495Human Services$21,500Health$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIPP DALLAS-FORT WORTH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TEACHING TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $23,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17,995 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHoly Cross Ministries of Utah: $16,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget826LA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPublic Radio International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $1,000 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.

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.

Byrne Family Foundati…The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…Texas Women's Foundat…Meadows Foundation IncTodd a Williams Famil…The Addy FoundationRaymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Byrne Family Foundation TrustTX20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Byrne Family Foundation Trust · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Todd a Williams Family Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Byrne Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Byrne Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Byrne Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Byrne 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 23 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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