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Denton Benefit League

Provide grants to nonprofit organizations

$174k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $106,558, the rows itemized in this filing. The $174,054 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $67,496 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$8,028
Median grant
1
States reached
$178k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENTON CO FRIENDS OF FAMILY$10,302
RIDING UNLIMITED$10,000
DENTON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER$10,000
DENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%RIDING UNLIMITED: $10k → 8%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $13k → 8%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $12k → 8%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $8k → 8%SPAN INCORPORATED: $10k → 8%FRED MOORE DAY NURSERY SCHOOL: $8k → 8%HEARTS FOR HOMES INC: $8k → 8%FRED MOORE DAY NURSERY SCHOOL: $6k → 8%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$923k · 25 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
16

Total granted

$923k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+44%

Still filing today

40%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
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

  • DC
    DENTON COMMUNITY THEATRE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +46%
  • HS
    HEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +82%
  • HF
    HEARTS FOR HOMES
    4× · 2017–2021 · $41k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • DP
    DENTON PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue +84%
  • DF
    DENTON FED OF WOMENS CLUBS
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • DC
    DENTON CO MHMR CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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
Denton Child Development Center

Provide childcare, afterschool care, and preschool education

Human Services
2
Denton Community Health Clinic

Denton Community Health Clinic's purpose is to provide affordable, comprehensive, quality health care to all, regardless of ability to pay.

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3
Denton City-County Day School

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…

Human Services
4
Denton County Crime Stoppers Inc

Crime Stop.

—
5
Denton Affordable Housing Corporation

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.…

Housing & Shelter
6
Dennysville Housing

Provide housing for individuals who are elderly or have disabilities

Human Services
7
Denton Chamber of Commerce

Promote Denton, Texas Community

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8
United Way of Denton County Inc

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…

Philanthropy
9
North Dallas Food Pantry

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.

Human Services
10
Volunteer Services Council for Denton State Supported Living Center

To provide support programs for residents at the Denton State Supported Living Center including education programs, supplemental living needs and medical equipment.

Education
11
Discovery Training Ministries Texas

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.

—
12
Denton Foundation Inc
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairoaks of Denton Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 43 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENTON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC: $83,000 · OtherDENTON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INCDENTON CO FRIENDS OF FAMILY: $61,504 · OtherDENTON CO FRIENDS OF FAMILYCUMBERLAND PRESB CHILD HOME: $61,369 · OtherCUMBERLAND PRESB CHILD HOMEDENTON COUNTY MHMR CENTER: $50,322 · OtherDENTON COUNTY MHMR CENTERUNITED WAY OF DENTON CO: $48,349 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DENTON COIndividual grant recipient: $42,288 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSPANMEALS ON WHEELS: $41,021 · OtherSPANMEALS ON WHEELSIndividual grant recipient: $39,475 · OtherSOLUTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS: $37,341 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB CHILDREN CLINIC: $28,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $24,886 · Other+19 more: $223,713 · Other+19 moreDENTON FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC: $66,730 · Arts & CultureDENTON FESTIVA…DENTON COMMUNITY THEATRE: $62,474 · Arts & CultureDENTON COMMUNI…GREATER DENTON ARTS COUNCIL INC: $5,768 · Arts & CultureHEARTS FOR HOMES: $40,750 · Human ServicesFRED MOORE DAY NURSERY INC: $14,057 · Human ServicesSPAN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRIDING UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $47,240 · HealthFirst Baptist Denton Ministry Center: $6,702 · HealthDENTON PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $16,732 · EducationEXPLORIUM DENTON CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $13,413 · EducationINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF DENTON INC: $26,113 · Community ImprovementOUR DAILY BREAD INC: $25,375 · Food & Nutrition
Other$741,268Arts & Culture$134,972Human Services$74,807Health$53,942Education$30,145Community Improvement$26,113Food & Nutrition$25,375

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

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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Fou…Communities Foundatio…United Way of Denton …Flow Health Care Foun…Dugas Family Foundati…Community Foundation …Texas Health Presbyte…The Florence Foundati…Texas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationCelanese FoundationMcKesson Foundation I…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Denton Benefit League funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Denton Benefit League. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 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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