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Cathryn L and Jon R Withrow Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$26kEducation$22kArts & Culture$18kReligion$11kHealth$7kCrime & Legal$2kCommunity Improvement$2kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$140k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHLAND PARK METHODIST CHURCH$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION$2,500
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 (FY20–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $6k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $5k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $3k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $3k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $3k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $1k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $1k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $1k → 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 8 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$57k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+11%

Still filing today

63%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR LIFE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +104%
  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    2× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +445%
  • DT
    Dallas Theological Seminary
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • DW
    DALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +29%
  • MS
    MEADOWS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
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
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
2
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Dallas Mavericks Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
5
Dallas Bar Foundation

The purpose or purposes for which the Foundation is organized are educational and charitable, and to that end the corporation is formed to sponsor and encourage research, publications, institutes and forums for the furtherance of justice…

Crime & Legal
6
Dallas Islamic Foundation
Religion
7
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
9
Texas Women's Foundation

Texas Women's Foundation invests in removing the barriers to women's economic security, stability, and success through targeted research and advocacy, intentional grant making and leadership programs.

—
10
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
11
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
12
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Firefly Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherDALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATIONMEADOWS MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 · OtherMEADOWS MUSEUM OF ARTHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $4,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHMEADOWS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $3,500 · OtherMEADOWS SCHOOL OF THE ARTSIndividual grant recipient: $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2,200 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHONE HUNDRED SHARES: $2,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER: $2,000 · OtherJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $1,500 · Other+6 more: $6,000 · Other+6 moreCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $23,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR LIFEThe Family Place: $3,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PlaceUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $10,835 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …Dallas Theological Seminary: $1,500 · EducationDallas Theolog…Dallas Museum of Art: $8,650 · Arts & CultureDallas Mus…ONE HUNDRED SHARES DALLAS INC: $1,100 · PhilanthropyThe LAM Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMercys Shore: $2,000 · Crime & LegalKIDNEYTEXAS INC: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$40,700Human Services$26,000Education$12,335Arts & Culture$8,650Philanthropy$2,100Crime & Legal$2,000Health$2,000

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 budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $23,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $10,835 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $8,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE HUNDRED SHARES DALLAS INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FIREFLY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetKIDNEYTEXAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe LAM Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 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.

Communities Foundatio…Jon R Withrow Charita…Community Foundation …The Dallas FoundationNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Jon R Withrow Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cathryn L and Jon R Withrow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cathryn L and Jon R Withrow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    How do I get to Cathryn L and Jon R Withrow Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cathryn L and Jon R Withrow 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 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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