· Private foundation
Celanese Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1378 grants · $797k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $777k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC | $126,900 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR | $63,375 |
| BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| PROJECT JOY AND HOPE FOR TEXAS | $48,465 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $45,000 |
| SPE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC | $31,277 |
| VOGEL ALCOVE | $30,614 |
| RESOURCE CENTER DALLAS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MAKE- A- WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $29,606 |
| GREENSPACE DALLAS | $26,063 |
| WILKINSON CENTER | $25,700 |
| ATTITUDES ATTIRE | $23,625 |
| HOPES DOOR | $22,565 |
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.
Your US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($11M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($1.3M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($1.3M)
78 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
1216 repeat relationships — 588 still active in FY2024, 628 since wound down; 228 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
CITY YEAR INC5× · 2019–2024 · $739k · revenue +0%- DADallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $681k · revenue +25%
- SFSPE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- JPJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +154%
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -2%
- CYCITY YEAR DALLASone grant, 2020 · $75k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Pravara Vedika. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
924 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. 924 of the 2,000 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds SPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds Clear Lake Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WINONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc ↗
- Who funds PROMISE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TODAYS HARBOR FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Brighton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE ARK ASSESSMENT CENTER AND EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds READERS 2 LEADERS ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · The Perot Foundation · Dallas Mavericks Foundation · David M Crowley Foundation
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 Celanese 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Beulah Academy of Science Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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