· Private foundation
Eugene Straus Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT LIVING | $20,000 |
| AGAPE CLINIC | $15,000 |
| UGM OF DALLAS | $15,000 |
| DALLAS HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| SOUTH DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL - TKA | $15,000 |
| INCARNATION PLACE INC | $10,000 |
| WESLEY RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- MSMERCY STREET2× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +60%
- TATHE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING2× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +302%
- D2DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC2× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- ACABERG CENTER FOR LITERACYone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue 0%
- EDENVISION DALLASone grant, 2023 · $25k
- OCOak Cliff Society of Fine Artsgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +62%
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.
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.…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Dallas Bethlehem Center supports families living in our South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood through education, health & wellness programs and technology supports.
Our mission is to provide accessible high-quality counseling, training, psychological evaluations, and educational testing that equip our clients to grow through lifes changes and challenges.
To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
The Well Community provides hope and stability to adults living with mental illnesses through healthy relationships, essential services and meaningful activities.
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…
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.
To provide Medical and Dental Care to all patients in Dallas and its surrounding cities regardless of ability to pay.
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Akibayavneh Academy. 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.
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 47 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 32 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 MERCY STREET ↗
- Who funds ABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds AKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOULS HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds METROCREST SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INCARNATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE THREE INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH 180 INC ↗
- Who funds BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER ↗
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: Hillcrest Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Perot 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 Eugene Straus Charitable Trust 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.