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Clavis Impact Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SAGE SCHOOL OF DALLAS | $62,000 |
| HIGHLANDER BAND BOOSTERS | $12,263 |
| INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,500 |
| 29 ACRES | $1,554 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS | $1,034 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA | $475 |
| CULVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100 |
| HIGHLAND PARK ARCHERY BOOSTER CLUB | $37 |
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 human-services grants (FY23–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- ISINTERNATIONAL STUDENT FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +61%
- TCTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +7%
- DADALLAS ACADEMY2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- DSDALLAS STARS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +19%
- KNKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACEone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- DADALLAS ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH ORCHESTRAgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +49%
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.
The Cambridge School of Dallas was formed in 2001 and is a college preparatory, non-denominational christian school established for the purpose of providing academic excellence in a christ-centered environment.
We are a k-12 private school that looks to work with children that have learning difficulties and help them reach their full potential. we annually graduate students that go into college or the workplace that find meaningful ways to be…
Pta texas congress highland park elementary school is a support organization for the students and faculty of highland park elementary school and the austin isd community
Dallas international school educates students of all backgrounds to contribute to a dynamic world with its internationally renowned curriculum, multiple language instruction, and exposure to diverse cultural views.
The organization's mission is to exclusively support charitable literary, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the irs code the organization shall be operated to support various institutes of the…
Dallas Bright Futures, a dedicated non-profit organization, operates as the foundational support for The Monty J and Sarah Z Bennett Dallas ISD Scholarship. Our mission is to empower and uplift underserved high school students within the…
The episcopal school of dallas permanent endowment trust operates exclusively as an endowment fund for the benefit of and to support the episcopal school of dallas, 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.
To operate a preschool and elementary school for children 18 months to 9 years.
Esd prepares children for intellectual discovery, integrity and purpose; we develop the talent and potential in each student through sound learning, discipline, and faith.
The Chinquapin School Endowment, Inc. was organized for educational and charitable purposes and is operated exclusively for the benefit of the Chinquapin Preparatory School.
The dallas police youth foundation was formed in 2013 in an effort to create a sustainable financial avenue to support the youth outreach efforts and programs of dpd. dpyf determined that support for youth outreach programs was too…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Crystal Charity Ball and the most unlike its peers is Culver Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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
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 SAGE SCHOOL OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DALLAS STARS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA (DAAYO) ↗
- Who funds 29 ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ARCHERY BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds LA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Hegi Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Clavis Impact Fund 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.
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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