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Caris 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $307k
- $250k+2 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARIS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL | $2,747,576 |
| ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $2,550,000 |
| GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $91,001 |
| BANDS MINISTRIES | $65,786 |
| CL - CHANGING LIVES | $50,000 |
| TOUCH A LIFE FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
| NEW YORK CANCER FOUNDATION | $25,100 |
| VAN ZANDT-GUINN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $21,467 |
| MCKINNEY NELL BURKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $20,942 |
| LAKE CITIES CHURCH OF CHRIST | $11,168 |
| HEALTH TALENTS INTERNATIONAL | $10,125 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN FT WORTH | $10,000 |
| PROSPER HIGH SCHOOL BASS FISHING CLUB | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FYFORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $558k · revenue +33%
- TGTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +15%
- HTHEALTH TALENTS INTERNATIONAL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- ZPZOIES PLACEone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -42%
- SPSHILOH PLACE MCKINNEYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +199%
- TGTHE GATHERING PLACE INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Capital christian ministries is a non-profit organization committed to transforming lives on the continent of africa. we are doing this through leadership programs, education assistance, partnering with capital christian worship centers…
Ticmi was founded by helen melahouris with a passion to bring hope and healing to the world. the focus of the ministry is three-fold: 1. igniting passion through intercession and the teaching of the word to set god's children around the…
Collaborating with latin american grantees to identify and address their specific challenges through active listening and question driven understanding, nurturing their goals and objectives.
Global commission partners is an evangelical missionary not for profit organization dedicated to evaluate and support native ministries who are planting the gospel of jesus christ among unreach people groups in poor countries.
Christ for humanity (cfh) is a christian humanitarian relief organization whose purpose is to glorify god by enabling the church to advance the gospel of jesus christ to the needy. cfh's goal is to provide christian field workers with the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Touch-a-Life and the most unlike its peers is Caris Foundation International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CARIS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds FORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BANDS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH TALENTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCH-A-LIFE ↗
- Who funds CL - CHANGING LIVES ↗
- Who funds TOUCH A LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth ↗
- Who funds ZOIES PLACE ↗
- Who funds SHILOH PLACE MCKINNEY ↗
- Who funds New York Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The LV Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Halbert Harmon Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Caris 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.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.