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Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$399kEducation$269kHuman Services$103kRecreation & Sports$62kHealth$61kPhilanthropy$59kAnimals$30kCivil Rights$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH$70,000
ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$7,500
CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES$6,000
BLUE DIAMOND RECREATION$5,000
THE FIRST TEE OF FORT WORTH$4,582
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$3,500
FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$3,500
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$3,500
NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,000
UNIVERSITY LITTLE LEAGUE$2,500
HILLTOP ADVENTURES$2,000
FUNKY TOWN FOOD PROJECT$1,030
INT'L OCD FOUNDATION$1,000
CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY$1,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLUE DIAMOND RECREATION: $5k → 11%BLUE DIAMOND RECREATION: $5k → 11%BLUE DIAMOND RECREATION: $5k → 11%BLUE DIAMOND RECREATION: $5k → 11%MICHAEL E THORTON FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%METROPLEX MILITARY CHARITABLE TRUST: $500 → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $6k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $2k → 11%Center for Transforming Lives: $2k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $1k → 11%Center for Transforming Lives: $1k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $1k → 11%Center for Transforming Lives: $1k → 11%Center for Transforming Lives: $1k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $1k → 11%James L West Center for Dementia Care: $500 → 11%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $500 → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $500 → 11%Como Lions Heart: $1k → 11%Community Hospice of Texas: $200 → 11%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

WA
MN
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
KS
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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$850k · 36 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
32

Total granted

$850k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+9%

Still filing today

64%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AC
    ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +64%
  • FW
    FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +52%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • SO
    Shady Oaks Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +56%
  • SG
    SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • JC
    JEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +3%

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
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
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.

3
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
4
Communities Foundation of Texas Inc

The foundation is committed to serving charitable needs both domestically and abroad through charitable grants and services at the discretion of the board of trustees.

Philanthropy
5
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

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

Health
6
Scott & White Healthcare Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
7
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
8
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
9
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
10
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

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

Health
11
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
12
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blue Diamond Recreation. 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 backsteadyCharter and Independent Sch…Asian Cultural & Religious …Hospital and Primary Care S…Senior Affordable HousingYouth Mentorship & Support …Developmental Disabilities …Christian Gospel MinistriesFort Worth Civic Improvement
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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%6%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr10%38%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr10%18%35–55yr12%60%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
16%
14,166/90,006

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 78 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
33/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $393,900 · OtherUNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN CHURCHACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $70,600 · OtherACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESFort Worth Zoo — $29,000 · Other+39 more — $112,430 · Other+39 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $146,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF…FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $54,304 · EducationFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY S…TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $27,500 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSI…+3 more — $6,300 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $34,500 · PhilanthropyTHE BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION — $27,200 · PhilanthropyShady Oaks Foundation Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyANGELA STANFORD FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $1,200 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $49,750 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $9,200 · Health+8 more — $6,300 · HealthBLUE DIAMOND RECREATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $15,600 · Human Services+7 more — $3,700 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $24,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $1,500 · Civil RightsFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $12,782 · Recreation & SportsUNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsUSGA FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$605,930Education$234,104Philanthropy$75,900Health$65,250Human Services$39,300Civil Rights$25,500Recreation & Sports$21,782

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $146,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $70,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $54,304 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $49,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $34,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $27,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION — $27,200 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $24,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE DIAMOND RECREATION — $20,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $15,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $12,782 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetShady Oaks Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $9,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $9,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $8,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSGA FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEndless River Ministries — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGELA STANFORD FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFORT WORTH REPORT — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNSILENCED PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoey's Dream Builders — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Hollywood Group — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL E THORNTON FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER CARE SERVICES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPLEX MILITARY CHARITABLE TRUST — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresbyterian Manor Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES L WEST PRESBYTERIAN SPECIAL CARE CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARENTING CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Healthcare of Texas — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINK MISSION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds BLUE DIAMOND RECREATION
  • Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES
  • Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Shady Oaks Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC
  • Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY
  • Who funds Community Food Bank
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation
  • Who funds USGA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Endless River Ministries
  • Who funds ANGELA STANFORD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FORT WORTH REPORT
  • Who funds JEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED
  • Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Child Legacy International Inc
  • Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART
  • Who funds UNSILENCED PROJECT 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.

Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX46.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · The Morris Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · R4 Foundation · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust

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 Carol J and R Denny Alexander 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 · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    11report 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 Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Carol J and R Denny Alexander 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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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