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Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$727k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$608kHealth$575kYouth Development$343kFood & Nutrition$271kCommunity Improvement$230kHousing & Shelter$166kCrime & Legal$108kAnimals$90kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $478k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENTON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER$100,000
HOPE FARM INC$100,000
JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER$75,000
DENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY$52,500
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC$50,000
CLC INC$50,000
BLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING & RESPITE$50,000
CUMBERLAND YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$40,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH$40,000
REFUGE FOR WOMEN NORTH TEXAS$30,000
THE GATEHOUSE$30,000
SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY$25,000
HOPE FARM INC$25,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$20,000
CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS$18,400
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $833k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $5k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 14%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $5k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $20k → 11%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $75k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $15k → 8%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $45k → 14%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $8k → 8%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $5k → 8%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $3k → 8%HOPE FARM INC: $100k → 11%CUMBERLAND YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 8%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $25k → 11%FRED MOORE DAY NURSERY SCHOOL: $50k → 8%HOPE FARM INC: $25k → 11%DENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY: $53k → 8%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $25k → 11%DENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY: $50k → 8%HOPE FARM INC: $25k → 11%BLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING & RESPITE: $50k → 8%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15k → 11%BLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING & RESPITE: $25k → 8%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $25k → 11%HOPE FARM INC: $20k → 11%LENA POPE HOME INC: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 21% of Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 21% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 17 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$1.4M
$858k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+8%

Still filing today

94%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterAnimalsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • HF
    HOPE FARM INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $170k · revenue +95%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank
    5× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +87%
  • CA
    CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • WH
    WILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -12%
  • C6
    COVER 6 OUTDOORS
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -61% · 89% of their budget
  • FM
    FRED MOORE DAY NURSERY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -62%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Opening Doors for Women in Need

Opening Doors for Women in Need is a faith-based nonprofit organization for created with the purpose to provide needed services for women who have experienced emotional trauma that has led to pain and suffering.

Human Services
2
Hope's Door New Beginning Center

The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…

Human Services
3
Texas Community Counseling

When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…

Human Services
4
UnBound North Texas

Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.

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5
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
6
Refuge City

Refuge city provides safe places for children in dallas / ft. worth (dfw) who have been sex trafficked or sexually exploited to achieve restoration, education, and reintegration in a family-focused environment through the love of jesus…

Human Services
7
Youth With Faces

Our mission at Youth With Faces is to give justice-impacted youth the skills needed to break the cycle of incarceration and create positive futures. With respect and belief in their potential we give young people the opportunity to learn…

Philanthropy
8
Crisis Center of West Texas

Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.

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9
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
10
Bridges Safehouse Inc

A Christian ministry providing safe shelter and nurturing support for women and their children during an immediate time of need. Bridges Safehouse seeks to encourage, empower and equip pregnant, homeless women in crisis, and their…

Human Services
11
Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center Inc

To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.

Human Services
12
New Friends New Life

New friends new life restores and empowers trafficked and sexually exploited teen girls, women and their children, and drives awareness of the issue and its prevalence. through case management, trauma-informed counseling, and economic…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Sky Therapeutic Riding and Respite. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr17%4%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr9%26%35–55yr13%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr17%2%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%48%20–35yr9%25%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
17%
4,732/27,940

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.

05the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $230,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPOR…HOPE FARM INC — $170,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INCDENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC — $102,500 · Human ServicesDENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY IN…BLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND RESPITE — $75,000 · Human ServicesBLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND RESPIT…SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $75,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTYFRED MOORE DAY NURSERY INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFRED MOORE DAY NURSERY INCCUMBERLAND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $40,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $35,000 · Human ServicesHEARTS FOR HOMES — $30,500 · Human Services+2 more — $25,400 · Human ServicesWILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · HealthWILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDA…First Baptist Denton Ministry Center — $25,000 · HealthDENTON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC — $160,790 · OtherDENTON COMMUNITY FOOD CENT…BONTON FARMS — $50,000 · OtherBONTON FARMSCLC INC — $50,000 · OtherCLC INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC — $40,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF F…THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION — $30,000 · OtherCOVER 6 OUTDOORS — $75,000 · OtherCOVER 6 OUTDOORSRanch Hands Rescue — $40,000 · OtherRanch Hands RescueOPERATION KINDNESS — $31,000 · OtherOPERATION KINDNESSNPOWER INC — $25,000 · Other+6 more — $68,500 · Other+6 moreCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS — $98,400 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION PROGRESS FORT WORTH — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $85,000 · Housing & ShelterREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Food Bank — $110,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC — $105,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$833,400Health$525,000Other$570,290Youth Development$173,400Housing & Shelter$145,000Food & Nutrition$110,000Crime & Legal$107,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $230,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHOPE FARM INC — $170,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetDENTON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC — $160,790 over 6y, 22% of budgetCommunity Food Bank — $110,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC — $102,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS — $98,400 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND RESPITE — $75,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCOVER 6 OUTDOORS — $75,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRED MOORE DAY NURSERY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetOPERATION PROGRESS FORT WORTH — $50,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetCUMBERLAND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRanch Hands Rescue — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $31,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTS FOR HOMES — $30,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION — $30,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetNPOWER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFirst Baptist Denton Ministry Center — $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAmputee Blade Runners — $15,400 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE LADDER ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLENA POPE HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAttitudes & Attire — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUnlocking Doors Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Communities Foundatio…The Rees-Jones Founda…Community Foundation …Coserv Charitable Fou…Sid W Richardson Foun…The Moody FoundationVirginia Hobbs Charit…The Ninnie L Baird Fo…Garvey Texas Foundati…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Thomas M Helen McKee …Texas Women's Foundat…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX31.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Coserv Charitable Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Virginia Hobbs Charitable Trust Simmons Bank Trustee · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Texas Women's 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 Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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