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Denton Benefit League

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$174k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Itemized grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$107k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$8,028
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,302
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$178k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Denton Benefit League funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23
EducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$107k14%
FY202315$131k13%
FY202212$109k8%
FY202118$190k11%
FY201918$191k44%
FY201820$188k35%
FY201721$172kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$183kHealth$156kArts & Culture$135kFood & Nutrition$124kHousing & Shelter$119kEducation$71kPhilanthropy$63kCommunity Improvement$26kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($528k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Denton Benefit League supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDenton Community Food Center Inc: $83,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetDenton Festival Foundation Inc: $66,730 over 7y, 15% of budgetDenton Community Theatre: $62,474 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetHealth Services of North Texas Inc: $47,240 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHearts for Homes: $40,750 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetInterfaith Ministries of Denton Inc: $26,113 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetOur Daily Bread Inc: $25,375 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDenton Parks Foundation Inc: $20,221 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Denton County Inc: $19,201 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDenton Public School Foundation: $16,732 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFred Moore Day Nursery Inc: $14,057 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetExplorium Denton Childrens Museum: $13,413 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGoodwill Industries of South Texas Inc: $12,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpan Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDenton Christian Preschool Inc: $8,808 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFairoaks of Denton Incorporated: $8,028 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFirst Baptist Denton Ministry Center: $6,702 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Through Hope Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGreater Denton Arts Council Inc: $5,768 over 1y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Coserv Charitable FoundationTX34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Denton Benefit League

How much does Denton Benefit League give?
Denton Benefit League reported 14 itemized grants totaling $106,558, out of $174,054 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Denton Benefit League fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Health (14%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Denton Benefit League's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Denton Community Food Center Inc ($83k), Denton Festival Foundation Inc ($67k), Denton Community Theatre ($62k).
Does Denton Benefit League fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Denton Benefit League?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coserv Charitable Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, United Way of Denton County Inc.
Where is Denton Benefit League based?
Denton Benefit League is based in TX.

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 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $162k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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