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Clay Jenkins Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $71,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| CALLEJO-BOTELLO FOUNDATION | $9,344 |
| DALLAS CASA | $7,975 |
| AFTER8TOEDUCATE | $5,000 |
| RED CROSS OF NORTH TEXAS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| PUEDE NETWORK | $2,500 |
| JACK AND JILL FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| VISITING NURSES ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| FAMILY GATEWAY | $2,500 |
| BRIGHTER MAGAZINE | $2,500 |
| VOGEL ALCOVE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| NEW MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
44 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 22 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- PFPARKLAND FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $156k · revenue +7%
- DCDALLAS CASA7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +21%
- FGFAMILY GATEWAY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLone grant, 2019 · $107k
- SGSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TJTEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -70%
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 Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
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.…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher…
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…
The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Callejo-Botello Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 121 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 PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALLEJO-BOTELLO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER8TOEDUCATE ↗
- Who funds MARCH TO THE POLLS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HUMANE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER MAGAZINE ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Puede Network ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC INC ↗
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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Morton H Meyerson Family 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 Clay Jenkins Family 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.
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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