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Greater Texas 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $705k
- $50k–250k46 grants · $4.9M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE | $577,287 |
| P16PLUS COUNCIL OF GREATER BEXAR COUNTY FOUNDATION INC | $436,516 |
| TEXAS 2036 | $400,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC | $375,105 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $353,000 |
| ECONOMIC MOBILITY SYSTEMS | $334,756 |
| TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $325,000 |
| MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS | $325,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC | $300,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $289,097 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC | $221,850 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $203,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY | $196,288 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-DOWNTOWN | $188,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $183,459 |
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 (FY20–24, $328k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Greater Texas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 92% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
100 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- CCOMMIT2DALLAS3× · 2021–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +96%
- TCTEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +79%
- THTEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +60% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- PIPELOTONU INCone grant, 2022 · $152k · revenue +3%
- WAWGU Advancementone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue 0%
- STSOUTH TEXAS COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $71k
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.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
The partnership empowers students with quality educational programs, resources and counseling that will make them confident, knowledgeable and help them finish college and contribute to san antonio's future, making the students san…
A consortium of universities in texas, with affiliate universities overseas, dedicated to developing, coordinating and implementing educational capacity-building programs around the world, and increasing capacity for campus globalization…
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas. 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 30 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 141 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 COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE EDU-NATION ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GET SCHOOLED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EVIDENCE-BASED CHANGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds P16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY CENTER ECONOMIC MOBILITY SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds STRADA COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Shannon Medical Center ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NATL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMERGE Fellowship ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas 2036 ↗
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: Trellis Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Gates Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Higher Education Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Ecmc Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc
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 Greater Texas 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.
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Achieving the Dream Inc — 0% 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.
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