· Private foundation
Fenner Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION | $72,479 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| Sunday Supper Foundation | $20,000 |
| SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST | $15,000 |
| AUSTIN STREET CENTER | $15,000 |
| Project Transformation | $12,500 |
| HIGH ADVENTURE TREKS FOR DADS DAUGH | $10,000 |
| The Stew Pot | $10,000 |
| Grant Halliburton Foundation | $5,000 |
| OK2BX Foundation | $5,000 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| The Senior Source | $5,000 |
| TAKE ME HOME PET RESCUE | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS DALLAS REGIO | $1,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS | $500 |
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 (FY17–23, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +105%
- ASAUSTIN STREET CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +9%
- Y1YOUTH 180 INC2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- OFOUR FRIENDS PLACEone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -25%
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +38%- TWThe Way Backone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
EQTX Equality Texas Foundation works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans through education, community organizing, and collaboration.
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.…
Food distribution to the hungry throughout an eight county service territory in Southeast Texas.
The corporation is organized for the following purposes: to promote the area known as uptown in dallas, texas ("uptown"); to provide a safer environment. the corporation is organized for the following purposes: to promote the area special…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming and affirming environment for youth 18-24 experiencing homelessness providing short-term housing and case management. Elevate North Texas addresses youth homelessness from two angles: a hotel program…
Our mission is to create a kinder world for pets and the people who love them by providing lifesaving care, innovative programs, and community resources.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free 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…
Front Steps is responsible for managing the Austin Resource for the Homeless located in downtown Austin, which serves as a central point of intake and assessment for homeless persons. Front Steps also assists its clients with recuperative…
The downtown safety patrol serves the downtown dallas community. the downtown safety patrol places an increased emphasis on safety and crime prevention while, at the same time, greeting and providing information to downtown pedestrians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas Inc and the most unlike its peers is OK2BX Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds OUR FRIENDS PLACE ↗
- Who funds ST SIMON'S AFTER-SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH 180 INC ↗
- Who funds Take Me Home Pet Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSYNC EXOTIC INC ↗
- Who funds OK2BX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Fenner Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
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.