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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.

$225M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2,209
Grants FY2025still arriving
43
States reached
$16M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$284MHealth$191MHuman Services$121MReligion$113MArts & Culture$82MAnimals$47MPhilanthropy$44MHousing & Shelter$42MOther$0
02FY2025 · 2209 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2,209 grants below total $209,202,183, the rows itemized in this filing. The $224,950,482 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,748,299 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k517 grants · $3.7M
  • $10k–50k1144 grants · $24M
  • $50k–250k439 grants · $44M
  • $250k+109 grants · $137M
$18,779
Median grant
43
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CALL OF DUTY ENDOWMENT: $481k → 14%HAPPY HILL FARM CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $353k → 10%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 6%Schwab Charitable Fund: $1.7M → 10%HAPPY HILL FARM CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $297k → 10%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $326k → 14%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 6%FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $397k → 5%VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF TEXAS: $562k → 10%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 6%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $500k → 13%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $310k → 11%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $630k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $579k → 14%Ursuline Academy of Dallas Foundation Inc: $449k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE INC: $513k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $2.9M → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $540k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $536k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $305k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $353k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $327k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $1.5M → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $523k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $441k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $381k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $374k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $319k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $315k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $311k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC: $1.7M → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1.9M → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $727k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $642k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $574k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $524k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $456k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $390k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $1.1M → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $686k → 14%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $500k → 14%The Salvation Army DFW Metroplex Command: $392k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $547k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $291k → 14%LEMON TREE TRUST FUND: $370k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $322k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1B · 1789 repeat orgs$48M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1789
142

Total granted

$1.1B
$39M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+1%

Still filing today

80%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +105%
  • Southern Methodist University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +57%
  • TJ
    TD JAKES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2025 · $16M · revenue +740%

Funded once

  • IP
    IDEA Public Schoolsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3.7M · revenue +44%
  • MD
    MIDLAND DOWNTOWN PARK CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue -23%
  • CO
    CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1.5M · revenue 0% · 73% of their budget
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
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
2
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
3
Dallas International University

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

Education
4
Progress Texas Institute

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

Civil Rights
5
The McCombs School of Business

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

Education
6
Glasstire

Glasstire is an online magazine for visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
The University of Texas Law School

Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.

Education
9
Texas Defender Service

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

Civil Rights
10
Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development
11
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
12
TrueWorks Houston

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

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

1631 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. 1631 of the 2,000 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.

199
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
524
Early backer (in before they grew)
1577/1631
Grantees still filing
1206/1631
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAINHEALTH: $24,525,163 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAINHEALTHNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $19,575,585 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKTHE SALVATION ARMY: $16,245,068 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15,448,808 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $14,845,319 · OtherTD JAKES FOUNDATION: $16,260,926 · Other+96 more: $255,982,343 · Other+96 moreTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $16,520,963 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATI…Southern Methodist University: $16,334,336 · EducationSouthern Methodist …COMMIT2DALLAS: $6,993,018 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $6,490,109 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MEDICA…TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5,843,416 · EducationVanderbilt University: $4,140,898 · Education+29 more: $58,990,095 · Education+29 moreCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $11,518,394 · HealthCHILDREN'…MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $8,748,969 · HealthMEADOWS M…Texas Health Resources Foundation: $5,038,133 · HealthTexas Hea…American Heart Association Inc: $4,130,869 · HealthAmerican …Baylor Health Care System Foundation: $4,083,357 · HealthBaylor He…THE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE: $3,816,000 · HealthTHE OSTEO…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $3,171,860 · HealthPLANNED P…PARKLAND FOUNDATION: $2,847,362 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $2,590,375 · HealthC C YOUNG MEMORIAL HOME: $2,583,194 · HealthRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $1,990,735 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $1,987,207 · Health+4 more: $5,869,528 · Health+4 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,015,428 · Human ServicesHOUSING FORWARD: $5,485,820 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INC: $3,571,847 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2,916,466 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $2,664,804 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $2,031,383 · Human ServicesSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $1,927,923 · Human ServicesFRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $1,829,260 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $1,744,693 · Human ServicesNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $1,657,151 · Human ServicesHAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC: $1,644,522 · Human Services+9 more: $12,645,313 · Human ServicesDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $12,528,324 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of Art: $6,666,042 · Arts & CultureALL STARS PROJECT INC: $5,646,783 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $5,046,022 · Arts & CultureDocumentary Arts Inc: $3,036,247 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $2,744,147 · Arts & CultureDALLAS TRUTH RACIAL HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION: $2,286,471 · Arts & CultureDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $1,527,945 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,345,409 · Arts & CultureTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $10,055,712 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $3,850,862 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $3,697,580 · PhilanthropyTHE NANCY ANN HUNT FOUNDATION: $3,596,131 · PhilanthropyPERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES: $2,462,763 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $2,155,095 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $1,983,828 · PhilanthropyDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $1,396,682 · PhilanthropyHOMEFREE USA INC: $1,250,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,247,189 · PhilanthropyFOREST FORWARD: $9,524,051 · Community ImprovementTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation: $4,435,580 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $3,502,858 · Community ImprovementLIFTFUND INC: $2,524,000 · Community ImprovementTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,972,919 · Community ImprovementOne CommunityUSA: $1,911,520 · Community Improvement
Other$362,883,212Education$115,312,835Health$58,375,983Human Services$49,134,610Arts & Culture$40,827,390Philanthropy$34,195,842Community Improvement$23,870,928

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $19,575,585 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $16,520,963 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $16,334,336 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTD JAKES FOUNDATION: $16,260,926 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $12,528,324 over 9y, 32% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $11,518,394 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetDallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc: $10,520,580 over 9y, 31% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $10,055,712 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetKALEIDOSCOPE PARK FOUNDATION: $9,525,924 over 3y, 97% of budgetFOREST FORWARD: $9,524,051 over 5y, 77% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $8,748,969 over 6y, 15% of budgetTHE COOPER INSTITUTE: $8,612,002 over 9y, 85% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS: $6,993,018 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $6,666,042 over 9y, 10.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $6,490,109 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $6,122,700 over 4y, 19% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,015,428 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5,843,416 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $5,646,783 over 9y, 35% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $5,499,554 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $5,485,820 over 9y, 24% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $5,052,479 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $5,046,022 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $5,038,133 over 9y, 10.0% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetWESTLAKE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $4,716,212 over 9y, 39% of budgetTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation: $4,435,580 over 9y, 22% of budgetVanderbilt University: $4,140,898 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,130,869 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $4,083,357 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds: $4,021,216 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetEast-West Ministries International: $3,978,730 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $3,850,862 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE: $3,816,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $3,697,580 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $3,674,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,652,785 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetTHE NANCY ANN HUNT FOUNDATION: $3,596,131 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $3,571,847 over 9y, 18% of budgetSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $3,502,858 over 1y, 20% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $3,435,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $3,228,134 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $3,171,860 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation: $3,133,311 over 9y, 81% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3,109,123 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $3,071,375 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetDocumentary Arts Inc: $3,036,247 over 8y, 83% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $3,014,247 over 6y, 1.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…The Rees-Jones Founda…United Way of Metropo…Hattie Mae Lesley Fou…The Addy FoundationDallas Mavericks Foun…The Perot FoundationThomas M Helen McKee …The Eugene McDermott …
W P & Bulah Luse FoundationTX138.1× affinity175 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Communities Foundation of Texas Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Communities Foundation of Texas Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 2000 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home