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Carrie S Orleans Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$493kFood & Nutrition$165kHousing & Shelter$120kHealth$65kReligion$30kCommunity Improvement$15kEducation$15kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE STEWPOT OF 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER DALLAS$10,000
WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
UGM OF DALLAS - UNION GOSPEL MISSION$10,000
GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT$5,000
JONATHAN'S PLACE (KID NET FOUNDATION)$5,000
OUR FRIENDS PLACE$5,000
METROCREST SERVICES INC$5,000
NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$5,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DALLAS$5,000
MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC$5,000
CARE CENTER MINISTRIES INC$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER: $5k → 5%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $5k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $10k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $5k → 14%INCARNATION HOUSE: $10k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%CARTER'S HOUSE: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DALLAS: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DALLAS: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DALLAS: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DALLAS: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DALLAS: $5k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER HOMES: $5k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $5k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE (KID NET FOUNDATION): $5k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $5k → 14%IRVING CARES INC: $10k → 14%IRVING CARES INC: $10k → 14%IRVING CARES INC: $5k → 14%IRVING CARES: $5k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $20k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $10k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $5k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $5k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $5k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT LIVING: $15k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $5k → 14%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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$753k · 31 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$753k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
-2%

Still filing today

77%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalReligionOther

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

  • WC
    WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +174%
  • TF
    The Family Place
    4× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +15%
  • VN
    VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS
    4× · 2017–2022 · $40k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +92%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLASgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +53%

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
Elevate North Texas

Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming and affirming environment for youth 18-24 experiencing homelessness providing short-term housing and case management. Elevate North Texas addresses youth homelessness from two angles: a hotel program…

Health
2
Cornerstone Community Development Corporation Inc

To improve the quality of life for residents in the South Dallas / Fair Park community by providing programs and services that help people break out of the cycle of poverty and empower them to become contributing members of their…

Human Services
3
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…

Employment
4
Operation Care International Inc

Operation care international exists to glorify god. in obedience to his will, we connect impoverished children and the homeless to jesus christ providing for their physical needs through god's provision both at home and abroad.

Human Services
5
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
6
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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7
The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology

Our mission is to provide accessible high-quality counseling, training, psychological evaluations, and educational testing that equip our clients to grow through lifes changes and challenges.

Health
8
Dallas County Family Resource Center

The mission of Dallas County Family Resource Center is to provide programs to improve the quality of resources and well-being of the children and families in the community by intake, assessment, and referral of those in need to available…

Human Services
9
Bridge Steps

To empower adults experiencing homelessness in dallas with the tools to homeless recovery as they move into sustainable housing.

Food & Nutrition
10
Frisco Family Services Center

Help members of our communities who are facing hunger, homelessness, and other urgent needs improve their quality of life and achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
11
Society of St Vincent De Paul Community Outreach of North Texas

The St. Vincent Center (SVC) Provide emergency assistance and systemic change relief to those in need in the neighborhoods of Lancaster, Texas, and the surrounding communities.

Food & Nutrition
12
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life and the most unlike its peers is Carters House. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr17%7%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr9%49%35–55yr14%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr17%3%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr9%53%35–55yr14%15%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
18%
2,549/14,159

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

43 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. 43 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
25/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INCThe Family Place — $45,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PlaceJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $35,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAM…Irving Cares Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesIrving Cares IncSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INCMETROCREST SERVICES — $30,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICESWHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesWHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INCINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $25,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICESTHE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVINGHOPE SUPPLY CO — $15,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE — $15,000 · Human Services+9 more — $60,000 · Human Services+9 moreCROSSROADS COMMUNITY — $40,000 · OtherCROSSROADS COMMUNITYAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $30,000 · OtherAUSTIN STREET CENTERUNION GOSPEL MISSION — $25,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSIONTHE STEWPOT - — $20,000 · OtherTHE STEWPOT -Individual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDALLAS BETHLEHEM CENTER INC — $15,000 · OtherDALLAS BETHLEHEM CENTER INCOUR FRIENDS PLACE — $15,000 · OtherOUR FRIENDS PLACEGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER — $15,000 · OtherGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC — $15,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INCNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherTHE STEWPOT OF 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherUGM OF DALLAS - UNION GOSPEL MISSION — $10,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER DALLAS — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · Other+2 more — $10,000 · OtherFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY GA…PROMISE HOUSE INC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE H…DALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterDALLAS MI…VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS — $40,000 · HealthVISITING …MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $20,000 · HealthMOSAIC FA…RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $10,000 · HealthRESOURCE …FAMILY AND CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $5,000 · HealthFAMILY AN…WILKINSON CENTER — $32,500 · EducationDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationFAMILY COMPASS — $10,000 · Crime & LegalNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $10,000 · Crime & LegalWELL COMMUNITY — $10,000 · ReligionCare Center Ministries Inc — $5,000 · ReligionJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$415,000Other$265,000Housing & Shelter$80,000Health$75,000Education$47,500Crime & Legal$20,000Religion$15,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Family Place — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER — $32,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIrving Cares Inc — $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $25,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS BETHLEHEM CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOUR FRIENDS PLACE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCITYSQUARE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOURCALLING INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY AVENUE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWELL COMMUNITY — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARTERS HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $5,000 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.

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.

Hillcrest FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Dallas FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…Katherine C Carmody C…The Rees-Jones Founda…Roy and Christine Stu…Texas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationHattie Mae Lesley Fou…
Hillcrest FoundationTX51.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc

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 Carrie S Orleans Trust 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 54 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.

    Source object · view filing

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