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Episcopal Foundation Of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

$215k
Granted FY2020
11
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
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 FY20172020.

Religion$283kFood & Nutrition$144kEducation$135kHuman Services$68kHousing & Shelter$28kRecreation & Sports$14kYouth Development$12kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2020 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $138,102 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $215,499 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,397 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $116k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St John's Episcopal School$25,500
community garden kitchen of collin county$20,000
Good Samaritan Episcopal Church$14,000
Randy Sams' Outreach Shelter$12,500
Emmanuel Anglican Church$12,000
HOLY NATIVITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH$12,000
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF DALLAS$10,000
St Matthew's Cathedral$10,000
ST ANNES$8,102
St Philip's Sudanese Episcopal Church$8,000
St James' day school$6,000
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 (FY17–18, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Incarnation House: $6k → 14%INCARNATION HOUSE: $6k → 14%Community Lifeline Center Inc: $8k → 5%GATEWAY OF GRACE MINISTRIES: $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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$520k · 15 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$520k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+38%

Still filing today

40%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionReligionOther

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

  • CG
    COMMUNITY GARDEN KITCHEN OF COLLIN COUNTY INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $80k · revenue +368%
  • GO
    GATEWAY OF GRACE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +10%
  • KF
    Kellermann Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • HT
    HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • SA
    St Augustine's Episcopal Church
    one grant, 2018 · $22k
  • DA
    DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPA
    one grant, 2017 · $15k

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
Eastside Ministries of Ft Worth

As a 501 (c) 3 organization that was incorporated in 1981 to provide free food and clothing to unhoused and underserved individuals and families on the east side of Fort Worth without discrimination.

Human Services
2
Under the Bridge Ministries Inc

We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…

Human Services
3
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
4
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Lifeschool of Dallas

To provide an exemplary learning center for students in grades kindergarten through twelve. while maintaining high academic standards, teachers are encouraged to be innovative.

Education
8
Homeless Coalition of Dallas

Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area

Human Services
9
Gods Pantry

God's Pantry exists to extend a helping hand, to the needy, by providing food to anyone who is facing circumstances beyond their control. The pantry serves all people, with respect and compassion, allowing them to maintain their…

Food & Nutrition
10
Pinnacle Christian School

Pinnacle Christian School serves to meet the education needs of families in the greater Parker County area by providing complete, advanced, Bible-based academic K-8th grade instruction taught by highly-qualified teachers on Tuesdays and…

Education
11
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
12
Pleasant Grove Food Pantry Inc

Pleasant Grove Food Pantry provides nutritious food to qualified residents of Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas who are food insecure. Fighting food insecurity is the mission and intent of the organization. Services are provided by…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parish Episcopal School and the most unlike its peers is Randy Sams Outreach Shelter. 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 86 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr18%0%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr15%4%20–35yr8%9%35–55yr12%70%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr18%0%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr15%3%20–35yr8%3%35–55yr12%70%55yr+

The field is 28% 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 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/30
the rest of the field
17%
3,526/20,637

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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 30 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DIOCESE OF DALLAS — $110,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF DALLASST JOHNS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $74,966 · OtherST JOHNS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLST MATTHEWS CATHEDRAL — $35,000 · OtherST MATTHEWS CATHEDRALHOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF DALLAS — $22,000 · OtherSt Augustine's Episcopal Church — $22,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO DE ASIS — $22,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $21,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE INCARNATION — $19,500 · OtherST JAMES DAY SCHOOL — $18,000 · Other+14 more — $154,602 · Other+14 moreCOMMUNITY GARDEN KITCHEN OF COLLIN COUNTY INC — $80,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY GA…GATEWAY OF GRACE — $35,000 · Human ServicesEVERY AVENUE — $12,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LIFELINE CENTER — $8,000 · Human ServicesKellermann Foundation — $21,000 · InternationalRandy Sams Outreach Shelter — $19,500 · Religion
Other$524,068Food & Nutrition$80,000Human Services$55,000International$21,000Religion$19,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY GARDEN KITCHEN OF COLLIN COUNTY INC — $80,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetKellermann Foundation — $21,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRandy Sams Outreach Shelter — $19,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetST JAMES DAY SCHOOL — $18,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEVERY AVENUE — $12,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoly Family School — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIFELINE CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY GARDEN KITCHEN OF COLLIN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds GATEWAY OF GRACE
  • Who funds Kellermann Foundation
  • Who funds Randy Sams Outreach Shelter
  • Who funds ST JAMES DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds EVERY AVENUE
  • Who funds PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
  • Who funds Holy Family School
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIFELINE CENTER

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 Foundation of Texas IncTX20.6× affinity10 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 Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Episcopal Foundation Of Dallas 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Episcopal Foundation Of Dallas?

    Find your warmest path to Episcopal Foundation Of Dallas 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 30 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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