· Private foundation
Denman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEE CREEK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| HELPING HAND CRISIS MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BANDERA | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DEEP EAST TEX | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INC MORRISTOWN HAMBLE | $10,000 |
| UTOPIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MORRISTOWN | $10,000 |
| PEDERNALES FIRE DEPARTMENT AUXILIAR | $10,000 |
| CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE WORLD OUR PARISH | $5,000 |
| NORTH EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 38% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TMTHE MOSAIC CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +16%
- TWTHE WORLD OUR PARISH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +20%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $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.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reachtheir full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens throughafter school and summer youth development programs.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To inspire all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To enable all young people especially those who need us the most, to reach their dreams and full potential as caring, productive, responsible citizens.
To promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in texas; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys and girls in texas without regard to race,…
Further the purpose of groundwater conservation and protection activities by providing a means of education, communication, and exchange of information between and among individual GCD's and the public regarding the groundwater management…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas and the most unlike its peers is Pedernales Fire Department Auxiliary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 THE MOSAIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORLD OUR PARISH INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MORRISTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BANDERA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PEDERNALES FIRE DEPARTMENT AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds UTOPIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas ↗
- Who funds NORTH EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Denman Foundation 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.
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
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.