How much does Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation give?

Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $126,112 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Education (25%), Human Services (10%).

Who are Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University Christian Church ($394k), Ach Child and Family Services ($71k), Fort Worth Country Day School Inc ($54k).

Does Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation based?

Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation is based in TX.

Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation

Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$126k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$70k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $56k
$50k–250k1 grant · $70k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL	$3,500
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY	$3,500
STANFORD UNIVERSITY	$3,500
NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$3,000
UNIVERSITY LITTLE LEAGUE	$2,500
HILLTOP ADVENTURES	$2,000
FUNKY TOWN FOOD PROJECT	$1,030
METHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY	$1,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN	$1,000
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$850k · 36 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

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%

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.

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

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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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

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

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

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

Texas a&M Research Foundation

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

Education

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

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

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

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

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 78 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/52

Grantees still filing

32/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$605,930Education$234,104Philanthropy$75,900Health$65,250Human Services$39,300Civil Rights$25,500Recreation & Sports$21,782

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

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.

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

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 Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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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, 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.

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