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Colonial Savings Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$197k
Granted FY2017
22
Grants FY2017
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$67kHousing & Shelter$60kEducation$19kHealth$15kYouth Development$11kCrime & Legal$2kFood & Nutrition$2k
02FY2017 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k17 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Housing Opportunities of Fort Worth Inc$60,000
MBA Opens Doors Foundation$50,000
United Way of Tarrant County$20,803
Stripling Middle School$17,000
Easter Seals of North Texas$15,000
Salvation Army The$5,000
Center for Transforming Lives$5,000
Junior Achievement of the Chisholm Trail$4,000
One Safe Place$2,000
Ryan Family YMCA$2,000
Tarrant Area Food Bank$2,000
YMCA of Metropolitan Ft Worth$2,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Gtr Fort Worth$1,920
YGC36 Youth Organization Inc$1,500
Leadership Academy at Forest Oaks Middle Schl$1,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%Center for Transforming Lives: $5k → 11%YMCA of Metropolitan Ft Worth: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Child Care Associates

Cca's mission is to assist family successes through excellence in comprehensive early education and development services.

2
Youth and Family Alliance

Youth and family alliance (dba lifeworks) is a fearless advocate for youth and young adults pursuing a life they love and a stable future for themselves and their families. we strive to break cycles of instability by providing support and…

Human Services
3
Community Family Centers Inc

To equip families with the tools they need to become self-sufficent members of the community.

Human Services
4
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater San Antonio

The mission of the Y is "to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all". At the Y, strengthening community is our cause. That's why we focus our work on youth…

5
Arlington-Mansfield Area Young Men's Christian Association

The ymca of arlington is a volunteer led public charity that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. our mission is "to put christian principles into practice through programs that build…

Human Services
6
Avance Inc

Avance creates pathways to economic mobility for predominately latino families through high quality, culturally responsive, two-generation programming that ensures school-readiness for young children and opportunities for parents to build…

Community Improvement
7
The YouthVantage Alliance

The youthvantage alliance empowers children and teens to discover their full potential. for 49 years, girls incorporated of tarrant county has fulfilled our mission through life-changing programs and experiences that help girls navigate…

8
Lena Pope Home Inc

The mission of lena pope home, inc. (lena pope) is to equip children, families, caregivers, and community with a strong foundation through counseling, education and behavior interventions.

Human Services
9
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
10
Ella Austin Community Center

To empower individuals and families across the life span by providing multiple, integrated services that meet the needs of san antonio's neighborhood and beyond.

11
Ywca Tri-County Area

Ywca tri-county area is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services
12
The Parent Child Ctr of Tulsa Inc

To prevent child abuse and neglect through education, treatment, and advocacy. the parent child center of tulsa (pcct) has been serving the tulsa community and surrounding areas since 1990. in 2024, pcct served more than 96,000 infants,…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Tarrant County and the most unlike its peers is YGC36 Youth Organization Inc. 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES OF FORT WORTH — $60,000 · OtherHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES OF FORT WORTHStripling Middle School — $17,000 · OtherStripling Middle SchoolSalvation Army The — $5,000 · OtherSalvation Army The+9 more — $11,200 · Other+9 moreMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY — $20,803 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTYEASTER SEALS NORTH TEXAS — $15,000 · HealthCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $5,000 · Human ServicesYMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth — $2,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $1,920 · Youth DevelopmentFORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentYGC36 Youth Organization Inc — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC — $4,000 · InternationalSafe City Commission — $2,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$93,200Philanthropy$70,803Health$15,000Human Services$7,000Youth Development$4,920International$4,000Crime & Legal$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES OF FORT WORTH — $60,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY — $20,803 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS NORTH TEXAS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe City Commission — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $1,920 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYGC36 Youth Organization Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LADDER ALLIANCE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · America's Charities · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Alcon Foundation Inc · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · R4 Foundation · The Morris Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · United Way of Tarrant County · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc

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 Colonial Savings 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    5report 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, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Colonial Savings Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Colonial Savings 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $204k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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