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Byrne Family Foundation Trust at a glance

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Byrne Family Foundation Trust

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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
97
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.4MYouth Development$1.9MEmployment$1.3MHuman Services$990kAnimals$942kEnvironment$522kInternational$378kPhilanthropy$324kOther$0
02FY2024 · 97 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k54 grants · $250k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $417k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $1.8M
$7,807
Median grant
11
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMIT2DALLAS$200,000
THE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP$150,000
TRINITY PARK CONSERVANCY$100,000
PARK CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$84,000
OPERATION KINDNESS$82,000
FOR OAK CLIFF$79,000
YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK$75,000
UNITED TO LEARN$74,000
CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB$70,000
T3 PARTNERSHIP$65,000
BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER$64,000
CAFE MOMENTUM$60,000
WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER$60,000
SPAY NEUTER NETWORK$58,000
PARK CITY TOTS INC$56,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $551k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 15%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 15%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $2k → 5%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%PARK CITY TOTS INC: $57k → 5%INCARNATION HOUSE: $3k → 14%PARK CITY TOTS INC: $5k → 5%JUBILEE PARL & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%PEACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%JUBILEE PARL & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%ILOOKLIKELOVE INC: $30k → 14%ILOOKLIKELOVE INC: $20k → 14%CARTERS HOUSE: $10k → 14%ILOOKLIKELOVE INC: $5k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $8k → 14%YOUTH REVIVE: $10k → 14%YOUTH REVIVE: $4k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $60k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $3k → 14%BOLD IDEA INC: $2k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $79k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $50k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $25k → 14%KID NET FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%KID NET FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $5k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $5k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $5k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $64k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
CA
UT
CO
MD
NC
DC
HI
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 88 repeat orgs$880k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

88 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
57

Total granted

$8.4M
$365k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

72%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $514k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • C
    COMMIT2DALLAS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +371%
  • TP
    Trinity Park Conservancy
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +504%
  • CP
    CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB
    6× · 2019–2024 · $355k · revenue +544%

Funded once

  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
  • TT
    THE TEACHING TRUST
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -86%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
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
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
Texas Trees Foundation

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

—
4
Communities in Schools of Central Texas

Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.

Education
5
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
6
Dallas Kids First

Dallas kids first elevates dialogue on the impact of school board leadership for kids in dallas isd and supports school board elections with focus on outcomes for kids.

Human Services
7
Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development
8
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
9
Dallas Services

The mission of Dallas Services is to enable individuals with disabilities and other special needs to achieve their potential by fostering community inclusiveness and independence.

—
10
Progress Texas Institute

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

Civil Rights
11
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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12
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
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 Sugar Face Foundation. 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

134 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. 134 of the 184 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)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/134
Grantees still filing
90/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $355,000 · OtherCHILD POVERTY ACTION LABCHILDCAREGROUP: $275,000 · OtherCHILDCAREGROUPVNA: $263,000 · OtherVNAIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSCHOLARSHOT: $235,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHOTYEAR UP: $215,000 · OtherCITY YEAR DALLAS: $200,000 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA - DALLAS-FORT WORTH: $180,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP ISD INC: $155,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $152,500 · OtherTHE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP: $150,000 · OtherSTAND FOR CHILDREN DALLAS: $150,000 · OtherTexas 2036: $250,000 · OtherTexas 2036+85 more: $1,323,055 · Other+85 moreCOMMIT2DALLAS: $1,040,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASUNITED TO LEARN: $284,000 · EducationUNITED TO LEARNPark City Education Foundation: $249,500 · EducationPark City Education FoundationYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $230,000 · EducationYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWOR…DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $225,000 · EducationDALLAS AFTERSCHOOLTEACH PLUS INC: $200,000 · EducationTEACH PLUS INCLUMIN EDUCATION: $155,480 · EducationLUMIN EDUCATION+18 more: $341,750 · Education+18 moreCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesCANINE CO…FOR OAK CLIFF: $159,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK C…BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $69,000 · Human ServicesBACHMAN L…WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $67,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RA…PARK CITY TOTS INC: $61,500 · Human ServicesPARK CITY…I LOOK LIKE LOVE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesI LOOK LI…+16 more: $147,412 · Human Services+16 moreOPERATION KINDNESS: $247,000 · AnimalsSPAY NEUTER NETWORK: $180,000 · AnimalsSENIORS PET ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $73,000 · AnimalsHEARTS & BONES ANIMAL RESCUE: $53,000 · AnimalsSPCA of Texas: $22,500 · Animals+9 more: $67,000 · AnimalsTrinity Park Conservancy: $500,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $33,900 · Community ImprovementFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER: $185,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM: $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe GEMS Camp: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentAT LAST: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS: $18,522 · Youth DevelopmentLIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Youth Development+6 more: $34,300 · Youth DevelopmentPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $146,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $115,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $12,500 · Philanthropy
Other$4,153,555Education$2,725,730Human Services$808,912Animals$642,500Community Improvement$533,900Youth Development$442,822Philanthropy$323,500

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 budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS: $1,040,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTrinity Park Conservancy: $500,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $355,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $284,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDCAREGROUP: $275,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTexas 2036: $250,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $249,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $247,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT: $235,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $230,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $225,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER: $185,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSPAY NEUTER NETWORK: $180,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF: $159,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION: $155,480 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLEADERSHIP ISD INC: $155,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $146,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHoly Cross Ministries of Utah: $127,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $115,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $115,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetEDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $93,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINED LEADERS: $75,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSENIORS PET ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $73,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $69,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $67,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPARK CITY TOTS INC: $61,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetI LOOK LIKE LOVE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $53,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $53,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHEARTS & BONES ANIMAL RESCUE: $53,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe GEMS Camp: $50,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $46,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATCH UP & READ INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUPCHIEVE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TEACHING TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLittle p Project: $25,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetAT LAST: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $24,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $21,668 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
  • Who funds UNITED TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds CHILDCAREGROUP ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas 2036 ↗
  • Who funds Park City Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARSHOT ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TEACH PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER ↗
  • Who funds SPAY NEUTER NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds FOR OAK CLIFF ↗
  • Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP ISD INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Holy Cross Ministries of Utah ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
  • Who funds KIPP DALLAS-FORT WORTH INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINED LEADERS ↗
  • Who funds SENIORS PET ASSISTANCE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY TOTS INC ↗
  • Who funds I LOOK LIKE LOVE 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.

United Way of Metropo…The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…The Addy FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Texas Women's Foundat…The Rees-Jones Founda…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Meadows Foundation IncHoblitzelle FoundationKatherine C Carmody C…
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas IncTX81.2× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Addy Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw

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 Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Byrne Family Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 54%
  • Friends of Children Inc: 54% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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How do I get to Byrne Family Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to Byrne Family Foundation Trust 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 184 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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