· Private foundation
Fordan Family 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF DALLAS | $5,599 |
| HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,364 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $666 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS - NORTH TEXAS GIVING DAY | $590 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS | $137 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $125 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| ST CECELIA CHURCH | $72 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70 |
| BRIDGE HOMELESS RECOVERY CENTER | $65 |
| THE CATHOLIC PRO-LIFE COMMUNITY (CPLC) | $50 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $50 |
| Individual grant recipient | $43 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20 |
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 (FY17–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Compassion International Incorporated9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +16%- BCBaylor College of Medicine5× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +67%
- NYNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE6× · 2018–2024 · $850 · revenue +12%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $500
- AWAMERICAN WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +54%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $352
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.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
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.…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of advancing, promoting, and supporting the health care ministries of those religious congregations (the "sponsoring…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 52 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 Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Methodist Hospitals of Dallas Guild ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIKE FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Dallas ↗
- Who funds LA PROMESA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE STEPS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
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 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fordan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fordan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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