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Dawson O and Allison B George Fndn at a glance

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Dawson O and Allison B George Fndn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$45kEducation$42kHealth$28kMembership Benefit$26kYouth Development$26kCivil Rights$15kInternational$14kArts & Culture$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$875k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG LIFE HOUSTON SOUTHWEST$6,000
JDRF SOUTHERN TEXAS CHAPTER$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
THE MICAH PROJECT$5,000
THE URBAN ALTERNATIVE$5,000
AMAZING PLACE$5,000
LOGOS LEADERS OUTREACH$5,000
AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURCH$5,000
WEST HOUSTON YOUNG LIFE$3,500
GRACE BIBLE CHURCH$2,500
RE MIND DEPRESSION & BIPOLAR SUPPORT$2,000
SERENITY RETREAT FOR HEALING & SPIRITUAL RENEWAL$2,000
TIRR FOUNDATION$1,000
HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY$1,000
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 16%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

MN
VA
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$165k · 13 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$165k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

69%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TK
    The Kinkaid School Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +87%
  • LL
    LOGOS LEADERS OUTREACH
    4× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +5%
  • MP
    MICAH PROJECT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • FL
    FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +98%
  • EH
    EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • WF
    WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +47%
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
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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5
The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…

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6
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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8
Texas Health Resources

Through its affiliates, thr operates an integrated healthcare system with services and facilities throughout north central texas to improve the health of the people in the communities they serve.

Health
9
Covenant HomeCare

Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Trinity Charter School

The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…

Education
11
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston 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.

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12
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Chattooga Chamber Foundation. 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

25 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. 25 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JDRF SOUTHERN TEXAS CHAPTER: $26,000 · OtherJDRF SOUTHERN TEXAS CHAPTERAMAZING PLACE: $11,000 · OtherAMAZING PLACESECOND BAPTIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherSECOND BAPTIST CHURCHWESTLAKE BIBLE CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherWESTLAKE BIBLE CHURCHEPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOLRE MIND DEPRESSION & BIPOLAR SUPPORT: $5,000 · OtherRE MIND DEPRESSION & BIPOLAR SUPPORT+14 more: $16,500 · Other+14 moreLOGOS LEADERS OUTREACH: $18,000 · ReligionLOGOS LEADERS OUTREAC…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $13,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEThe Urban Alternative: $6,000 · ReligionThe Urban AlternativeSerenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal: $2,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionThe Kinkaid School Inc: $30,000 · EducationThe Kinkaid School…WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3,500 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST S…+2 more: $1,500 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $12,500 · HealthBREAKTHROU…TIRR Foundation: $6,000 · HealthTIRR Found…Texas Children's Hospital: $1,500 · HealthTexas Chil…MICAH PROJECT INC: $15,000 · InternationalFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Civil RightsYOUNG LIFE: $10,500 · Youth Development
Other$78,500Religion$40,500Education$35,000Health$20,000International$15,000Civil Rights$15,000Youth Development$10,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOGOS LEADERS OUTREACH: $18,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMICAH PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Urban Alternative: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIRR Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSerenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Area Parkinson Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeHouse of Houston Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESIRING GOD MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTanglewood Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHouston Hospice: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Raymond James Charita…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…Christian Community F…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…The Ayco Charitable F…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX23.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Dawson O and Allison B George Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dawson O and Allison B George Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 35 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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