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Eugene Straus Charitable Trust at a glance

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Eugene Straus Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$112kHealth$110kYouth Development$91kReligion$60kHuman Services$60kArts & Culture$55kCommunity Improvement$25kHousing & Shelter$20k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC$10,000
INCARNATION PLACE INC$10,000
WESLEY RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH 180: $7k → 14%WESLEY RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE INC: $10k → 14%INCARNATION PLACE INC: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT LIVING: $20k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $5k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $10k → 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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$194k · 6 repeat orgs$339k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
20

Total granted

$194k
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+9%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MS
    MERCY STREET
    2× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +60%
  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
    2× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +302%
  • D2
    DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • AC
    ABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • ED
    ENVISION DALLAS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • OC
    Oak Cliff Society of Fine Artsgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +62%
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
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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2
Dallas International University

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

Education
3
Dallas Bethlehem Center Inc

Dallas Bethlehem Center supports families living in our South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood through education, health & wellness programs and technology supports.

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4
The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology

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.

Health
5
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
6
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.

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7
Well Community

The Well Community provides hope and stability to adults living with mental illnesses through healthy relationships, essential services and meaningful activities.

Religion
8
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
9
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
10
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.

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11
Mission East Dallas and Metroplex

To provide Medical and Dental Care to all patients in Dallas and its surrounding cities regardless of ability to pay.

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12
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

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…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas Inc; 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.
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 32 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY: $40,000 · OtherABERG CENTER FOR LITERACYENVISION DALLAS: $25,000 · OtherENVISION DALLASDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $20,000 · OtherDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INCSOUTH DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL - TKA: $15,000 · OtherSOUTH DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL - TKAUGM OF DALLAS: $15,000 · OtherUGM OF DALLASGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $12,500 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLASTHEATRE THREE INC: $10,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL OF DALLAS: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $6,000 · OtherMERCY STREET: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERCY STREETBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS…Momentous Institute: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institut…THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE ASSOCIATION F…The Family Place: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PlaceWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COM…METROCREST SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVIC…INCARNATION PLACE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesINCARNATION PLACE…YOUTH 180 INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH 180 INCBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $5,000 · Human ServicesBACHMAN LAKE TOGE…AGAPE CLINIC: $15,000 · HealthAGAPE CLINICHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $13,500 · HealthHEALING HANDS …RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $10,000 · HealthRESOURCE CENTE…PARKLAND FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUND…Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $10,000 · HealthNexus Recovery…VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $10,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE…Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOak Cliff…Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Ho…DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CH…LUMIN EDUCATION: $27,000 · EducationAKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationSOULS HARBOR INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$198,500Youth Development$87,000Human Services$81,500Health$68,500Arts & Culture$45,000Education$42,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCY STREET: $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY: $40,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION: $27,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOak Cliff Society of Fine Arts: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMomentous Institute: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Family Place: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE THREE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOULS HARBOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINCARNATION PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH 180 INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Hillcrest FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Hoblitzelle FoundationThe Dallas FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Katherine C Carmody C…Texas Instruments Fou…The Addy FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…The Perot Foundation
Hillcrest FoundationTX45× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Eugene Straus Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eugene Straus Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 32 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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