· Private foundation
H Ward Lay Jr 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| THE BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLAS | $50,000 |
| THE DALLAS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST | $25,000 |
| DUKE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT & ALUM | $25,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $6,536 |
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN2× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +63%
- TJTHE JOHN HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2023 · $30k
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS3× · 2017–2022 · $16k · revenue -18%
Funded once
- JHJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- BEBANNER ELK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INCone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.
To provide physician services to support the charitable functions and tax exempt purpose of Methodist Hospitals of Dallas (D/B/A Methodist Health System).
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 raise funds to support programs of and increase the community awareness of the exempt purpose and charitable functions of the methodist health system.
To build and maintain donor relationships in order to raise, manage, and distribute funds to assist Methodist Health System in acquiring state-of-the-art technology, attracting excellent medical staff, and supporting vital hospital…
Provide dental, general pediatric, and pediatric sub-specialty services, including, but not limited to emergency department coverage, inpatient coverage, orthopedic surgery, and craniofacial orthodontics regardless of payor source or…
Provide anesthesia services to patients at children's medical center of dallas. these services are provided without regard to a patient's ability to pay for the services.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
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.…
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.
Pedi-ortho health corporation provides physicians who provide pediatric orthopaedic care to children and institutions with whom the organization contracts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas and the most unlike its peers is Querbes Park Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUERBES PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization H Ward Lay Jr 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.