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Esping Family Foundation at a glance

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Esping Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$318k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$665kEmployment$365kHealth$300kHuman Services$163kHousing & Shelter$153kYouth Development$80kCrime & Legal$75kArts & Culture$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $198k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dwell with Dignity$97,500
Cafe Momentum$50,000
Cristo Rey Dallas High School Inc$50,000
Ferguson Road Initiative$40,000
Family Gateway$30,000
Girls Inc of Metropolitan Dallas$25,000
The Family Place$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $530k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Dwell with Dignity: $98k → 14%Dwell with Dignity: $98k → 14%Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: $50k → 14%Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: $25k → 14%Dwell With Dignity: $15k → 14%Dwell with Dignity: $10k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $100k → 14%The Family Place: $35k → 14%The Family Place: $25k → 14%The Family Place: $25k → 14%The Family Place: $25k → 14%The Family Place: $25k → 14%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 10 repeat orgs$890k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$1.4M
$725k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+33%

Still filing today

80%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • DW
    DWELL WITH DIGNITY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +107%
  • TT
    Tackle Tomorrow
    2× · 2021–2023 · $130k · revenue +54%
  • MI
    Momentous Institute
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOR OAK CLIFF
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -11%
  • AC
    AGAPE CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +73%
  • TC
    The Center for Integrative Couselin
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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
COMMIT2DALLAS

Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher…

Education
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
4
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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5
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
6
Communities in Schools of Central Texas

Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.

Education
7
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

—
8
Academic Success Program Dallas

The organization's mission is to assist students in or around the dallas, texas area prepare for college by inspiring them to acknowledge that a quality college education is within their grasp, encouraging them to set the highest possible…

Education
9
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

—
10
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
11
Family and Child Guidance Center

Our mission is to provide quality mental health services to children and adults in low income families who are impacted by severe and persistent mental illness, emotional disturbances, child abuse and neglect, high-risk behaviors and…

Health
12
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Momentous Institute; the most unlike its peers is Methodist Hospitals of Dallas. 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

26 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. 26 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cristo Rey Dallas College Prep: $300,000 · OtherCristo Rey Dallas College PrepJubilee Park Community Center: $100,000 · OtherJubilee Park Community CenterThe Center for Integrative Couselin: $50,000 · OtherThe Center for Integrative CouselinAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $50,000 · OtherAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARSShelton School: $50,000 · OtherShelton SchoolAdvisory Board-Booker T Washington: $30,000 · OtherCarch Up and Read: $25,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $25,000 · OtherFAMILY COMPASS: $33,000 · OtherDALLAS CASA: $25,000 · Other+3 more: $55,000 · Other+3 moreDWELL WITH DIGNITY INC: $220,000 · Human ServicesDWELL WITH DIGNITY INCThe Family Place: $135,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PlaceFOR OAK CLIFF: $100,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CLIFFDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $75,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY…LUMIN EDUCATION: $200,000 · EducationLUMIN EDUCATIONTackle Tomorrow: $130,000 · EducationTackle TomorrowCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SC…KIPP Texas Inc: $50,000 · EducationKIPP Texas IncYEAR UP INC: $50,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $30,000 · EducationYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY…Momentous Institute: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous…CAFE MOMENTUM: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOME…MERCY STREET: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERCY STR…AGAPE CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $25,000 · HealthMethodist Hospitals of Dallas: $25,000 · HealthSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementFERGUSON ROAD INITIATIVE: $40,000 · Community ImprovementFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $60,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$743,000Human Services$530,000Education$510,000Youth Development$180,000Health$130,000Community Improvement$90,000Housing & Shelter$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDWELL WITH DIGNITY INC: $220,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION: $200,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Family Place: $135,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTackle Tomorrow: $130,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetMomentous Institute: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAGAPE CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFERGUSON ROAD INITIATIVE: $40,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS: $33,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY STREET: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMethodist Hospitals of Dallas: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CASA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Hoblitzelle FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…The Addy FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Perot FoundationThe Eugene McDermott …Hillcrest FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Harry Bass Foundation
The Dallas FoundationTX29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Perot Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Harry Bass Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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
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.
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How do I get to Esping Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Esping 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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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