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Dillard Family Foundation

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.

$763k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$2.6MHealth$1.1MEducation$690kHuman Services$448kPublic Safety & Disaster$392kFood & Nutrition$158kHousing & Shelter$120kYouth Development$91kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $257k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $453k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY$205,000
THE HUNDRED CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS$82,000
PRESBYTERIAN MANOR - HOUSE OF HOPE$56,368
Individual grant recipient$55,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICHITA FALLS$55,000
TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$48,950
NORTH TEXAS REHABILITATION CENTER$34,822
BEACON LIGHTHOUSE INC$34,000
CAMP FIRE NORTH TEXAS$25,000
SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC$23,900
WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK$20,000
CHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY$15,000
CHILD CARE PARTNERS$15,000
ACADEMY 4$10,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF WICHITA FALLS: $1.0M → 9%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES AND SERVICES: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH INC: $11k → 11%TFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30k → 16%HOSPICE OF WICHITA FALLS: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH INC: $8k → 11%YMCA OF WICHITA FALLS: $288k → 16%UNITED REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $5k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $500 → 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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 16 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$4.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+20%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
    2× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +89%
  • WF
    WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $64k · revenue +109%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $64k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • AS
    ALL SAINT'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • YM
    Young Mens Christian Association of Wichita Fallsgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $288k · revenue +166%
  • WF
    WICHITA FALLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $105k · revenue +107%
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
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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2
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
3
Christmas in Action

In partnership with the community, christmas in action rehabilitates the homes of low income elderly and low income disabled so that they may continue to live in warmth, safety and independence.

Housing & Shelter
4
North Texas Parent & Child Development Inc

The organization is dedicated to providing quality, comprehensive services to pregnant women, infants, and toddlers. teaming with other agencies enables them to help each child and family achieve social competency. early head start…

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5
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
6
Wichita Falls Retirement Foundation

Love and caring are the center of life at Rolling Meadows. Rolling Meadows was founded on the biblical belief that each person's life is a gift from God and is meant to be lived in dignity, comfort and security. Rolling Meadows seeks to…

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7
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
8
Caritas of Waco

To provide emergency/supplemental assistance in the form of food, clothing, household items, utility, rent and mortgage aid to people in need in the waco community.also provides case management assistance to people wanting to become…

Human Services
9
United Regional Health Care System

To operate nonprofit hospitals or hospital facilities, clinics, and related medical and surgical services by providing such services to persons that do have the ability to pay, and to thereby provide charitable medical, surgical, and…

Health
10
Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture

To provide leadership to support, promote and cultivate the arts in Wichita Falls and the surrounding area. To strengthen and elevate arts and culture including, but not limited to, visual and performing arts, literature, culinary arts,…

Arts & Culture
11
Interfaith Ministries of Wichita Falls Inc Dba Interfaith Outreach Services

The primary purpose of the organization is to provide assistance to temporarily disadvantaged individuals and families.

Human Services
12
Casa of West Texas

The mission of casa of west texas is to recruit, train and support committed volunteers who are appointed by the court to advocate for the best interest of children in the foster care system.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth; the most unlike its peers is Wichita County Sheriffs Office Citizens Alumni. 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

27 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. 27 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,484,960 · OtherMIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITYALL SAINT'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL COMMUNITY: $500,000 · OtherALL SAINT'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL COMMUNITYHUNDRED CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS: $391,522 · OtherHUNDRED CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS+22 more: $505,756 · Other+22 moreHospice of Wichita Falls Inc: $1,005,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Wichita Falls IncYoung Mens Christian Association of Wichita Falls: $287,800 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Associa…SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN: $63,900 · Human Services+5 more: $88,819 · Human Services+5 morePARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $134,950 · EnvironmentWICHITA FALLS FAITH MISSION INC: $60,000 · ReligionCHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $35,000 · ReligionNorth Texas Rehabilitation Center Inc: $44,822 · HealthBEACON LIGHTHOUSE INC: $34,000 · HealthRathgeber Hospitality House: $10,000 · HealthCAMP FIRE NORTH TEXAS: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHSIDE GIRLS CLUB INC dba SOUTHSIDE YOUTH SENTER: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $64,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,882,238Human Services$1,445,519Environment$134,950Religion$95,000Health$88,822Youth Development$87,500Food & Nutrition$64,000

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 budgetHospice of Wichita Falls Inc: $1,005,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHUNDRED CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS: $391,522 over 4y, 59% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Wichita Falls: $287,800 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $134,950 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWICHITA FALLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $104,940 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCAMP FIRE NORTH TEXAS: $75,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $64,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN: $63,900 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWICHITA FALLS FAITH MISSION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICHITA FALLS INC: $55,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNorth Texas Rehabilitation Center Inc: $44,822 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBEACON LIGHTHOUSE INC: $34,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $18,319 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS AREA UNITED WAY INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWichita Falls Area Community Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRathgeber Hospitality House: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEXAS ACADEMY 4: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF WEST TX INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHSIDE GIRLS CLUB INC dba SOUTHSIDE YOUTH SENTER: $3,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWICHITA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE CITIZENS ALUMNI: $500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

James N McCoy Foundat…Wichita Falls Area Co…Bryant Edwards Founda…J S Bridwell Foundati…The Fain FoundationThe Priddy FoundationDonnell FoundationPerkins-Prothro Found…Gene Conley FoundationLeota Steed FoundationGuinn Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …
James N McCoy FoundationTX47.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James N McCoy Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · J S Bridwell Foundation · The Fain Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Donnell Foundation · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · Gene Conley Foundation · Leota Steed Foundation · Guinn Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax

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 Dillard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dillard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dillard Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dillard Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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-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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