· Community foundation
Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax
To strengthen the community through civic leadership and to encourage philanthropy by providing community knowledge and reliable stewardship to those who wish to fulfill their charitable goals in a meaningful way--either during or beyond their lifetimes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 872 grants below total $41,298,422 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $45,388,649 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,090,227 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k150 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k568 grants · $9.8M
- $50k–250k116 grants · $11M
- $250k+38 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND | $1,500,000 |
| TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCES FOUNDATION | $1,050,000 |
| CHURCHOME | $1,000,000 |
| MOSAIC COUNSELING CENTERS OF EAST TEXAS INC | $1,000,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY | $1,000,000 |
| EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $1,000,000 |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE | $1,000,000 |
| TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY - ADVANCEMENT OFFICE | $988,800 |
| NEW LEAF COMMUNITY SERVICES | $950,000 |
| LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES INC | $580,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $540,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION | $515,812 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH | $500,000 |
| CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES | $500,000 |
| FORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $450,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $12.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
1011 repeat relationships — 356 still active in FY2024, 655 since wound down; 101 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.0M 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
- BRBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +321%
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +60%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +762%
Funded once
- GPGRAHAM PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $2.6M · revenue -93% · 93% of their budget
- ACAUSTIN COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -12%
- FWFORT WORTH TARRANT COUNTY INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $370k · revenue +178% · 82% of their budget
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 a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
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…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Good Samaritan Foundation (GSF) is a fundraising and grant-making organization dedicated solely to Texas nursing. Its mission is to increase the number of nurses dedicated to clinical care and to improve the quality of nurse education and…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas and the most unlike its peers is Kinfolk House. 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 30 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
1583 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. 1583 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 TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Keller Womens Club Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER ↗
- Who funds WI Cook Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND ↗
- Who funds MISSION METROPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation ↗
- Who funds Powerhouse Foundation ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New Leaf Community Services ↗
- Who funds The Kessler School ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · United Way of Tarrant County · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · The Morris Foundation · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · R4 Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · The Rees-Jones 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 Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax 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.
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.