· Private foundation
Dallas-Fort Worth Good Fellows
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GOOD SHEPARD CATHOLIC COMMUNITIES | $28,700 |
| THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $15,524 |
| OU FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DALLAS TD CLUB | $10,000 |
| OUR CALLING | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,137 |
| WOMEN'S NON-PROFIT ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| HOSPICE OF MIDLAND | $2,583 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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 71% of Dallas-Fort Worth Good Fellows’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, 63% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 95% — more 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.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 20 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- TATIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $114k · revenue +82%
- TETHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +20%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- TSThe Spirit Golf Associationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +56%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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…
To further the missions of utsw and thr on a local, regional and national level through the creation of a clinically integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other care providers to deliver healthcare across the continuum and by…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…
To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coburn Cares. 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 143 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
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 TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Spirit Golf Association ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISTIC TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Vida Valiente Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S NONPROFIT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INVITED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Carroll Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COBURN CARES ↗
- Who funds THE GREGG PEARSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH COLONIAL CHARITIES INC (FKA BFC COLONIAL INC) ↗
- Who funds Carroll Athletic Booster Club ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Dallas-Fort Worth Good Fellows 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.
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