· Public charity
Denton Benefit League
Provide grants to nonprofit organizations
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 14 grants below total $106,558 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $174,054 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $67,496 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 $10k10 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENTON CO FRIENDS OF FAMILY | $10,302 |
| DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RIDING UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| DENTON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $10,000 |
| DENTON COUNTY MHMR CENTER | $8,794 |
| EXPLORIUM DENTON | $8,183 |
| FAIROAKS OF DENTON | $8,028 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,487 |
| CASA OF DENTON COUNTY INC | $6,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,341 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD | $5,954 |
| DENTON COMMUNITY THEATRE | $5,062 |
| SPANMEALS ON WHEELS | $5,007 |
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, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- DCDENTON COMMUNITY THEATRE7× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +46%
- HSHEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC5× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +78%
- HFHEARTS FOR HOMES4× · 2017–2021 · $41k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- DPDENTON PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue +84%
- DFDENTON FED OF WOMENS CLUBSone grant, 2019 · $15k
- DCDENTON CO MHMR CENTERone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
Provide childcare, afterschool care, and preschool education
Denton Community Health Clinic's purpose is to provide affordable, comprehensive, quality health care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
Denton City County Day School provides quality, affordable childcareto families in Denton County. Our mission is to provide qualitypre-kindergarten education and loving care to children ages 2 through 5 years. Our vision is that all DCCDS…
Crime Stop.
To increase the supply of affordable housing in the denton area through acquisition, renovation, construction, promotion, financing, development, management and operation of both rental housing and homes offered to first-time homebuyers.…
Provide housing for individuals who are elderly or have disabilities
Promote Denton, Texas Community
The mission of United Way of Denton County, Inc. (UWDC) is to improve lives by mobilizing Denton County communities to action so all can thrive. Our vision: Thriving together, Denton County is a healthy community with strengthened…
North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.
To provide support programs for residents at the Denton State Supported Living Center including education programs, supplemental living needs and medical equipment.
To give adults a safe place to discover for themselves the tools to live with more freedom, courage, purpose and power in all aspects of their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairoaks of Denton Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Ranch Hands Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 43 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 DENTON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENTON COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS FOR HOMES ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF DENTON INC ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds DENTON PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DENTON PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED MOORE DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORIUM DENTON CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SPAN INC ↗
- Who funds RIDING UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds DENTON CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAIROAKS OF DENTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds First Baptist Denton Ministry Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED THROUGH HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DENTON ARTS COUNCIL 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: Coserv Charitable Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Denton County Inc · Flow Health Care Foundation Inc · Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton · The Florence Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Celanese Foundation · McKesson 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 Denton Benefit League 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.