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Gene & Jerry Jones Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of GENE & JERRY JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k46 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $570k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATIO | $775,000 |
| SMU | $511,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $371,429 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $184,967 |
| EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS | $125,000 |
| GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| DALLAS CONTEMPORARY | $50,000 |
| JASON WITTEN'S SCORE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN DALLAS COUNTY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER FOU | $50,000 |
| CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $35,000 |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| UNLOCKING DOORS | $25,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–20, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
66 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2020, 25 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- BHBaylor Health Care System Foundation3× · 2018–2020 · $2.3M · revenue +57%
- PMPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE3× · 2018–2020 · $1.5M · revenue +42%
- RFRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $800k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARone grant, 2019 · $75k
- LWLAY WITNESS FOR CHRIST INTERNTLone grant, 2018 · $25k
- DWDESTINY WORSHIP CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
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-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
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 facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Aids Research. 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 31 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 194 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 Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds JASON WITTEN S C O R E FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds Pro Players Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK SPORTS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Unlocking Doors Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
- Who funds MINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Rosewood Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Hegi Family Foundation · Arkay Foundation Inc · The Perot Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Patricia Dedman Family Foundation · The Pauline and Austin Neuhoff Foundation · The Howard Hallam Family 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 Gene & Jerry Jones Family 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.
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.
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