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Elizabeth Toon Charities

ELIZABETH TOON CHARITIES is a christian based 501(c)3 organization dedicated to serving needy children (and their families) throughout texas.

$670k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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 FY2019–2025.

Youth Development$748kHealth$655kHuman Services$619kEducation$562kRecreation & Sports$263kCrime & Legal$146kHousing & Shelter$84kReligion$84kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $570k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$209k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES$50,000
HOPE FARM$50,000
RISE SCHOOL OF DALLAS$40,000
TAYLOR'S GIFT$40,000
DALLAS CASA$40,000
FAMILY GETAWAY$40,000
TRAFFICK911$40,000
BEST BUDDIES$40,000
KING'S ACADEMY$40,000
CAMP JOHN MARC$40,000
SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL$40,000
DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY$40,000
JULIETTE FOWLER COMM CENTER$40,000
HEROES FOR CHILDREN$30,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$30,000
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 (FY19–25, $783k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MANEGAIT: $40k → 5%GLADNEY: $20k → 11%MANEGAIT: $39k → 5%MOMMIES IN NEED: $20k → 14%JUBILEE PARK: $20k → 14%HOPE FARM: $50k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $39k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS: $20k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $39k → 14%DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION: $49k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $20k → 14%WINGS DALLAS: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY: $74k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $68k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY: $40k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $36k → 14%FOR OAKCLIFF: $20k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $39k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS: $10k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS: $30k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $15k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $15k → 14%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.

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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
65

Total granted

$1.3M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

73%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • DC
    DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
    4× · 2019–2025 · $218k · revenue +18%
  • SC
    SPECIAL CAMPS FOR SPECIAL KIDS
    4× · 2019–2025 · $218k · revenue +43%
  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    4× · 2019–2025 · $218k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • DH
    DALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $49k · revenue +38%
  • MJ
    METHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY OF FUMC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • P
    POETIC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%

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
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
2
Dallas Center Inc

To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.

Human Services
3
Dallas Services

The mission of Dallas Services is to enable individuals with disabilities and other special needs to achieve their potential by fostering community inclusiveness and independence.

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4
Head Start of Greater Dallas Inc

Head start of greater dallas, inc. provides children with the foundation of skills and knowledge they need to be successful in school and life and fosters self-reliant families and communities.

Education
5
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
6
Dallas County Family Resource Center

The mission of Dallas County Family Resource Center is to provide programs to improve the quality of resources and well-being of the children and families in the community by intake, assessment, and referral of those in need to available…

Human Services
7
Dallas Kids First

Dallas kids first elevates dialogue on the impact of school board leadership for kids in dallas isd and supports school board elections with focus on outcomes for kids.

Human Services
8
Trinity Charter School

The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…

Education
9
Texans Care for Children Inc

Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…

Crime & Legal
10
Morning Star Academy

Morning star academy exists to provide a safe, nurturing environment that allows children to grow physically, spiritually and academically by integrating biblical faith and quality education into all of our childcare and academic programs.

Education
11
His Story Coaching and Counseling

Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.

Human Services
12
Tip of Texas Family Outreach Inc

To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Spida Inc Braswell Child Development Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth & Family Crisis Servi…Youth Sports LeaguesAdaptive Recreation & Welln…Dallas Parks & Cultural Ins…Faith-Based K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Community Minis…Social Justice AdvocacyDallas Community Support Se…Dallas Community Philanthro…Faith-Based Hospital Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%1%<5yr17%4%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr9%25%35–55yr14%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr17%4%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr9%30%35–55yr14%15%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/86
the rest of the field
18%
2,549/14,116

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.

04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 86 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/79
Grantees still filing
39/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $218,250 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERMane Gait — $79,200 · Human ServicesMane GaitBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INCYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED — $54,200 · Human ServicesYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEEDHOPE FARM INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INCDALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION INC — $49,000 · Human ServicesPOETIC — $40,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $39,200 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE FOUNDATION — $39,200 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC — $39,200 · Human Services+13 more — $258,600 · Human Services+13 moreGENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES OF CHRIST INC — $60,000 · OtherGENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHRIS…UGM OF DALLAS — $45,000 · OtherUGM OF DALLASMETHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY OF FUMC — $40,000 · OtherAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $39,200 · OtherPEDIPLACE INC — $30,000 · OtherHEROES FOR CHILDREN — $30,000 · OtherAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $29,400 · OtherFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $40,000 · OtherEMILY'S PLACE INC — $29,400 · OtherDALLAS CASA — $40,000 · OtherBest Buddies International Inc — $40,000 · OtherYouth With Faces — $40,000 · OtherHIS BRIDGEBUILDERS INC — $39,200 · Other+18 more — $314,600 · Other+18 moreRISE SCHOOL OF DALLAS — $218,250 · EducationRISE SCHOOL OF DAL…SOUTH DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $40,000 · EducationSOUTH DALLAS COMMU…BEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE — $40,000 · EducationBEACON HILL PREPAR…CATCH UP & READ INC — $40,000 · EducationCATCH UP & READ IN…YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK — $39,200 · EducationYOUNG WOMEN'S PREP…CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY — $25,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS — $20,000 · EducationWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $19,600 · Education+2 more — $30,000 · Education+2 moreTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $218,250 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH…LUKE 181 FOUNDATION — $40,000 · HealthLUKE 181 FOUND…TAYLOR'S GIFT FOUNDATION — $40,000 · HealthTAYLOR'S GIFT …Carson Leslie Foundation — $30,000 · HealthCarson Leslie …WI Cook Foundation Inc — $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · HealthMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $20,000 · HealthTHE HUCKLEBERRY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthSPECIAL CAMPS FOR SPECIAL KIDS — $218,250 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL C…RISE ADVENTURES INC — $44,400 · Recreation & SportsRISE ADVE…C5 Youth Foundation of Texas Inc — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERCY STREET — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADERS 2 LEADERS — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERTREE ACADEMY — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGE LACROSSE DALLAS INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentForerunner Mentoring — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTraffick911 — $60,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY COMPASS — $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$936,850Other$816,800Education$512,050Health$403,250Recreation & Sports$262,650Youth Development$160,000Crime & Legal$80,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $218,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL CAMPS FOR SPECIAL KIDS — $218,250 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $218,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMane Gait — $79,200 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTraffick911 — $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED — $54,200 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE FARM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDALLAS HEARING FOUNDATION INC — $49,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetRISE ADVENTURES INC — $44,400 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetMETHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY OF FUMC — $40,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPOETIC — $40,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSOUTH DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE — $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLUKE 181 FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTAYLOR'S GIFT FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCATCH UP & READ INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYouth With Faces — $40,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetC5 Youth Foundation of Texas Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $39,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $39,200 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE FOUNDATION — $39,200 over 1y, 14% of budgetHIS BRIDGEBUILDERS INC — $39,200 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC — $39,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK — $39,200 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCarson Leslie Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPEDIPLACE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRHETT SULLIVAN FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHEROES FOR CHILDREN — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER — $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTO BE LIKE ME — $29,400 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $29,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMILY'S PLACE INC — $29,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDCAREGROUP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY STREET — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOMMIES IN NEED — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTEXAS ACADEMY 4 — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetESSILOR VISION FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER DALLAS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Rees-Jones Founda…The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Texas Women's Foundat…Hillcrest FoundationCapital for KidsThe Moody FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Ninnie L Baird Fo…
The Rees-Jones FoundationTX91.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Capital for Kids · The Moody Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Ninnie L Baird 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 Elizabeth Toon Charities 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 · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Elizabeth Toon Charities?

Find your warmest path to Elizabeth Toon Charities 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 86 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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