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Credit Union of Texas

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$222k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$68k
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 FY20202024.

Housing & Shelter$483kPhilanthropy$354kCrime & Legal$153kInternational$97kEducation$90kCommunity Improvement$88kPublic Benefit$63kFood & Nutrition$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $123,639 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $222,073 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,434 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$36,015
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STREETSIDE SHOWERS INC$67,500
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC$36,015
CITY OF ALLEN$15,000
DFW HUMANE SOCIETY$5,124
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $611k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VICTIMS FIRST: $6k → 14%MCKINNEY FAMILY YMCA: $18k → 5%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%STREETSIDE SHOWERS INC: $153k → 5%STREETSIDE SHOWERS INC: $150k → 5%STREETSIDE SHOWERS INC: $113k → 5%STREETSIDE SHOWERS INC: $68k → 5%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $100k → 14%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 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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$610k · 4 repeat orgs$900k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
24

Total granted

$610k
$864k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+12%

Still filing today

50%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SS
    STREETSIDE SHOWERS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $483k · revenue +31% · 31% of their budget
  • CO
    CITY OF ALLEN
    2× · 2021–2024 · $50k
  • EP
    EXPONENTIAL POWER OF WOMEN
    2× · 2020–2021 · $43k

Funded once

  • CU
    CREDIT UNION OF TEXAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $304k · revenue -28% · 52% of their budget
  • DC
    DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +28%
  • GE
    GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +17%

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.

1
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
2
Dallas Kids First

Dallas kids first elevates dialogue on the impact of school board leadership for kids in dallas isd and supports school board elections with focus on outcomes for kids.

Human Services
3
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
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

5
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
6
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
7
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
8
Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc

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…

Education
9
Dallas Bar Foundation

The purpose or purposes for which the Foundation is organized are educational and charitable, and to that end the corporation is formed to sponsor and encourage research, publications, institutes and forums for the furtherance of justice…

Crime & Legal
10
Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…

Crime & Legal
11
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
12
Progress Texas Institute

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

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Credit Union of Texas Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%12%<5yr17%8%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr9%23%35–55yr12%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%23%<5yr17%37%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr9%16%35–55yr12%8%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 23% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/32
the rest of the field
16%
7,122/43,593

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 31 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STREETSIDE SHOWERS INC — $482,858 · Human ServicesSTREETSIDE SHOWERS INCDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $100,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER+3 more — $28,251 · Human ServicesCREDIT UNION OF TEXAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $303,784 · PhilanthropyCREDIT UNION OF TEXAS CHARIT…TIDES FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONGOFUNDMEORG — $46,350 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORGCITY OF ALLEN — $50,391 · OtherCITY OF ALLENTHE FOOD FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherTHE FOOD FOUNDATI…CITY OF GILMER — $20,854 · OtherCITY OF GILMERNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $11,490 · OtherST JOSEPH'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $11,297 · OtherBest Buddies International Inc — $36,015 · OtherBest Buddies Inte…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS INC — $21,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMEN…DFW HUMANE SOCIETY OF IRVING INC — $34,234 · OtherDFW HUMANE SOCIET…+3 more — $19,186 · Other+3 moreWYLIE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University — $25,000 · EducationCEDAR HILL ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 · EducationFoundation for Allen Schools — $5,100 · EducationPTA TEXAS CONGRESS dba Frisco ISD Council of PTAs — $5,000 · EducationCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC — $27,800 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $25,000 · Civil RightsGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC — $75,000 · Public Safety & DisasterEXPONENTIAL POWER OF WOMEN — $42,995 · Community ImprovementLIVE EAST TEXAS — $20,000 · Community ImprovementDodd Education and Support Inc — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$611,109Philanthropy$400,134Other$244,967Education$89,600Civil Rights$77,800Public Safety & Disaster$75,000Community Improvement$72,995

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTREETSIDE SHOWERS INC — $482,858 over 4y, 31% of budgetCREDIT UNION OF TEXAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $303,784 over 1y, 52% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG — $46,350 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWYLIE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $36,015 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDFW HUMANE SOCIETY OF IRVING INC — $34,234 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC — $27,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS INC — $21,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $11,490 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $11,297 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetDodd Education and Support Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCEDAR HILL ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVictims First Inc — $5,751 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTAND FOR THE SILENT INC — $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Allen Schools — $5,100 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX23.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Coserv Charitable Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Credit Union of Texas 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 · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Credit Union of Texas?

Find your warmest path to Credit Union of Texas 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 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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