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H Ward Lay Jr Foundation at a glance

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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.

$192k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$129kArts & Culture$50kPhilanthropy$35kReligion$30kEducation$24kFood & Nutrition$15kHuman Services$12kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127k · 6 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$127k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+20%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    2× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +145%
  • TJ
    THE JOHN HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $30k
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS
    3× · 2017–2022 · $16k · revenue -18%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • BE
    BANNER ELK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
2
MedHealth

To provide physician services to support the charitable functions and tax exempt purpose of Methodist Hospitals of Dallas (D/B/A Methodist Health System).

Health
3
Dallas County Medical Society

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.

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4
Dallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc

To raise funds to support programs of and increase the community awareness of the exempt purpose and charitable functions of the methodist health system.

—
5
Methodist Richardson Medical Center Foundation

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…

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6
Dallas Physician Medical Services for Children Inc

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…

Health
7
Anesthesiologists for Children

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.

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8
Mhs Physicians of Texas

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,…

Health
9
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

—
10
Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health
11
Cook Children's Medical Center

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.

Health
12
Pedi-Ortho Health Corporation

Pedi-ortho health corporation provides physicians who provide pediatric orthopaedic care to children and institutions with whom the organization contracts.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLAS: $50,000 · OtherTHE BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLASTHE JOHN HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE: $30,000 · OtherTHE JOHN HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTEHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST: $25,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODISTDUKE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT & ALUM: $25,000 · OtherDUKE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT & ALUMJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $16,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXASCHILDREN'S HOPE ALLIANCE: $7,000 · Other+4 more: $16,400 · Other+4 moreTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $55,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE …THE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOU…APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyAPPALACHIAN RE…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FO…CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $14,500 · Food & NutritionMercy Ships International: $6,536 · InternationalDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesQUERBES PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Environment
Other$189,400Health$55,000Philanthropy$40,500Food & Nutrition$14,500International$6,536Human Services$2,000Environment$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $6,536 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization H Ward Lay Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H Ward Lay Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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