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Divide by Zero 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| KERA | $20,000 |
| PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| NANUBHAI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| TERLINGUA FIRE & EMS | $3,000 |
| OPERATION KINDNESS | $2,500 |
| AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION USA | $2,500 |
| BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK | $2,000 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| RECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +98%- NTNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +249%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue ×34
Funded once
- SASiti and Jido Park Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +25%
- KDKIPP DALLAS-FORT WORTH INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- KIKIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Incone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Building on the proven success of texas agriculture education and the texas ffa program, our mission is distinguished by the continued development, funding, and implementation of cutting edge learning opportunities focusing on academic…
We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of american petroleum institute (api) is to promote safety across the industry globally and to influence public policy in support of a strong, viable u.s. oil and natural gas industry.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Siti and Jido Park Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds NANUBHAI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TERLINGUA FIRE & EMS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds Siti and Jido Park Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP DALLAS-FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc ↗
- Who funds AKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Divide by Zero 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.
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.
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