How much did COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC grant in FY2024?

COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC reported 2,182 grants totaling $163,096,728 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC based?

COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is based in TX.

COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC

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· Community foundation

COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC

The foundation is committed to serving charitable needs both domestically and abroad through charitable grants and services at the discretion of the board of trustees.

$163M

Granted FY2024

2,182

Grants

Communities

$6.0M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

benefits received

2020

fiatraviseliminating racismracism empoweringpromoting peacepeace justicejustice freedom

2021

trlaentertainment industryorleanstxhpfdisciplinaryconveneruseful

2022

devils riveremployericrcleander bandblinngunmonuments men

2023

back backpikes peakopen spaceamherstuvaldegangpersonal finance

2024

sgmplatformsaphasiasisters legacygreenwood risingranchingjewish federations

2025

bgcmcelnacdelta deltapbsriversosteosarcomaaphasia

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 2182 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k541 grants · $3.8M
$10k–50k1137 grants · $24M
$50k–250k415 grants · $42M
$250k+89 grants · $74M

$17,949

Median grant

States reached

$1.0B

Total assets

Largest grants

MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS$6,040,000
SPIRIT OF AMERICA WORLDWIDE$5,000,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAINHEALTH$3,830,941
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION$2,976,877
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER DALLAS$2,807,377
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,262,760
COMMIT$2,096,032
THE COOPER INSTITUTE$2,027,542
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$1,991,385
WOODALL RODGERS PARK FOUNDATION$1,971,895
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$1,697,731
TD JAKES FOUNDATION$1,505,482
JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC$1,500,000
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,299,115
HOMEFREE USA INC$1,250,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $43.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$807M · 1782 repeat orgs$50M to everyone else

1782 repeat relationships — 1380 still active in FY2024, 402 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1782

165

Total granted

$807M

$37M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+68%

Still filing today

80%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

NT
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
7× · 2018–2024 · $17M · revenue +49%
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
7× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +35%
TD
THE DALLAS FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $9.8M · revenue +97%

Funded once

IP
IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3.7M · revenue +137%
PB
PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue -14%
MD
MIDLAND DOWNTOWN PARK CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue -70%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

North Texas Christian Foundation

As the North Texas affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Philanthropy

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

Dallas International University

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

Education

Progress Texas Institute

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

Civil Rights

The McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education

Glasstire

Glasstire is an online magazine for visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health

The University of Texas Law School

Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.

Education

Texas Defender Service

Texas Defender Service (TDS) leads the fight to end excessive punishment in Texas.

Civil Rights

Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development

Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas.

Crime & Legal

TrueWorks Houston

To see well-formed people create well-formed ventures and transform our city.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quality of Life Foundation for Metropolitan Dallas and the most unlike its peers is The Love Pit. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 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 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%98/4,624

the rest of the field

13%

17,099/132,180

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.

05the grantee network

1628 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

157

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

531

Early backer (in before they grew)

1575/1628

Grantees still filing

1235/1628

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$454,475,506Education$132,560,475Human Services$83,131,471Health$64,016,397Arts & Culture$53,869,859Philanthropy$39,577,246Animals$29,531,004

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.

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.

Hillcrest FoundationTX135.2× affinity195 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo · The Addy Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · Dallas Mavericks Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Perot 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 organisation COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EDWARDSVILLE YMCA FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 371029828 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on EDWARDSVILLE YMCA FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Communities Foundation of Texas Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines