· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| Grant Halliburton Foundation | $5,000 |
| The Senior Source | $5,000 |
| OK2BX Foundation | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS DALLAS REGIO | $1,000 |
| TAKE ME HOME PET RESCUE | $1,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OK2BX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fenner Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fenner Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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