· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2,209 grants below total $209,202,183 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $224,950,482 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,748,299 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k517 grants · $3.7M
- $10k–50k1144 grants · $24M
- $50k–250k439 grants · $44M
- $250k+109 grants · $137M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC | $15,949,670 |
| TD JAKES FOUNDATION | $14,681,300 |
| KALEIDOSCOPE PARK FOUNDATION | $9,359,778 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAINHEALTH | $7,568,128 |
| METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $5,220,220 |
| CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $4,418,392 |
| SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION | $3,502,858 |
| OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE | $3,316,000 |
| COMMIT | $3,182,200 |
| TEXAS BUSINESS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION | $3,168,798 |
| FOREST FORWARD | $3,046,165 |
| DALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER | $2,605,153 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $2,190,066 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER DALLAS | $2,166,752 |
| DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $2,096,037 |
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 (FY17–25, $48.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
1789 repeat relationships — 1345 still active in FY2025, 444 since wound down; 33 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.8M 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
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +105%
Southern Methodist University9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +57%- TJTD JAKES FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2025 · $16M · revenue +740%
Funded once
- IPIDEA Public Schoolsgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3.7M · revenue +44%
- MDMIDLAND DOWNTOWN PARK CONSERVANCYone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue -25%
- JRJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue -21%
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.
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.
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
Glasstire is an online magazine for visual art in Texas.
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.
Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.
Texas Defender Service (TDS) leads the fight to end excessive punishment in Texas.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas.
To see well-formed people create well-formed ventures and transform our city.
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.
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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1631 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. 1631 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds TD JAKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALEIDOSCOPE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREST FORWARD ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spirit of America Worldwide ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTLAKE ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
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: W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · The Addy Foundation · Dallas Mavericks Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · The Eugene McDermott 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 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.
- Homefree Usa Inc — 54% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.