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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.

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$214kHealth$173kCrime & Legal$112kEducation$74kCivil Rights$36kHuman Services$34kPhilanthropy$17kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k48 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BRIGHTER MAGAZINE$2,500
PUEDE NETWORK$2,500
JACK AND JILL FOUNDATION INC$2,500
FAMILY GATEWAY$2,500
VOGEL ALCOVE$2,500
VISITING NURSES ASSOCIATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
NEW MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH$1,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRESBYTERIAN MANOR: $500 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $500 → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $200 → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $200 → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $200 → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $200 → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $200 → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $200 → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $200 → 14%HOMELESS VETERANS SERVICE OF DALLAS INC: $500 → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $345 → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $3k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $2k → 14%HEART HOUSE: $500 → 14%Vogel Alcove: $250 → 14%Vogel Alcove: $250 → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $250 → 14%Vogel Alcove: $250 → 14%Vogel Alcove: $250 → 14%Vogel Alcove: $250 → 14%HEART HOUSE: $250 → 14%CitySquare: $2k → 14%CitySquare: $2k → 14%CitySquare: $2k → 14%CitySquare: $2k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $2k → 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$505k · 44 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
53

Total granted

$505k
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+20%

Still filing today

45%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • PF
    PARKLAND FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $156k · revenue +7%
  • DC
    DALLAS CASA
    7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +21%
  • FG
    FAMILY GATEWAY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELL
    one grant, 2019 · $107k
  • TJ
    TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -70%
  • SG
    SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +333%
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
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
2
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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3
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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4
Dallas International University

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

Education
5
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
6
COMMIT2DALLAS

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…

Education
7
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

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.…

Civil Rights
8
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
9
Center for Public Policy Priorities

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…

Public Benefit
10
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
11
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
12
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 121 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
36/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $111,100 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELL: $107,150 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLHighland Park United Methodist Chur: $68,684 · OtherHighland Park United Methodist Chur+85 more: $135,945 · Other+85 morePARKLAND FOUNDATION: $156,375 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION+5 more: $5,830 · HealthUniversity of Chicago: $25,000 · EducationUniversit…DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationDALLAS ED…DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationDALLAS CO…North Dakota State University Foundation: $3,000 · Education+3 more: $1,000 · EducationDALLAS CASA: $22,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $200 · Civil RightsCITYSQUARE: $10,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE: $5,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FORWARD: $1,900 · Human Services+4 more: $2,095 · Human ServicesCALLEJO-BOTELLO FOUNDATION: $9,344 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $5,047 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of West Ellis County Inc: $1,250 · Philanthropy+2 more: $700 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPuede Network: $2,500 · Community ImprovementNational Council of Jewish Women Greater Dallas Section: $2,000 · Community ImprovementFrazier Revitalization Inc: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$422,879Health$162,205Education$60,000Civil Rights$32,200Human Services$24,495Philanthropy$16,341Community Improvement$15,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $156,375 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CASA: $22,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALLEJO-BOTELLO FOUNDATION: $9,344 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $6,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $5,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $5,047 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH TO THE POLLS: $5,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER8TOEDUCATE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS HUMANE NETWORK: $5,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $4,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLIS COUNTY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTER MAGAZINE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPuede Network: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE CLINIC INC: $2,250 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women Greater Dallas Section: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $1,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of West Ellis County Inc: $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHANKSGIVING FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrazier Revitalization Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART HOUSE: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTake Me Home Pet Rescue Inc: $700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Manor Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Veterans Services Of Dallas Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $345 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF: $345 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIPLACE INC: $330 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGASTON CHRISTIAN CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS ARMS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS HISPANIC BAR ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 MARCH TO THE POLLS ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds AFTER8TOEDUCATE ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS HUMANE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLIS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTER MAGAZINE ↗
  • Who funds Puede Network ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CLINIC INC ↗

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…The Addy FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Meadows Foundation IncHoblitzelle FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Eugene McDermott …Morton H Meyerson Fam…
The Dallas FoundationTX55× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Clay Jenkins Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clay Jenkins Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Clay Jenkins Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Clay Jenkins Family 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 121 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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