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Carrie S Orleans Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Individual grant recipient$10,000
DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$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
THE STEWPOT OF 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
OUR FRIENDS PLACE$5,000
IRVING CARES$5,000
MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC$5,000
GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT$5,000
INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DALLAS$5,000
METROCREST SERVICES INC$5,000
NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER: $5k → 5%CITYSQUARE: $10k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $5k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $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%OUR CALLING INC: $5k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE (KID NET FOUNDATION): $5k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $5k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER HOMES: $5k → 14%IRVING CARES INC: $10k → 14%IRVING CARES INC: $10k → 14%IRVING CARES: $5k → 14%IRVING CARES INC: $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%FAMILY PLACE INC: $10k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $5k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $5k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $5k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT LIVING: $15k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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%
0%

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 ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

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

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FC
    FAMILY COMPASS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLASgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +53%
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
26/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Family Place: $45,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PlaceWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INCJEWISH 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 IncWHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesWHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INCMETROCREST SERVICES: $30,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICESSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INCINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICESTHE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVINGCITYSQUARE: $15,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY CO: $15,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $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 recipientOUR FRIENDS PLACE: $15,000 · OtherOUR FRIENDS PLACECATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $15,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INCDALLAS BETHLEHEM CENTER INC: $15,000 · OtherDALLAS BETHLEHEM CENTER INCGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER: $15,000 · OtherGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTERIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER DALLAS: $10,000 · OtherUGM OF DALLAS - UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $10,000 · OtherTHE STEWPOT OF 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Family Place: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% 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 budgetIrving Cares Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $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 budgetOUR FRIENDS PLACE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS BETHLEHEM CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELL COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY AVENUE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF DALLAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARTERS HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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 budgetJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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

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 Carrie S Orleans Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carrie S Orleans Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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.

    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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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