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Heartspace Initiative at a glance

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Heartspace Initiative

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.

$957
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$957
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$954kEducation$65kHealth$60kCrime & Legal$30kPhilanthropy$30kEmployment$20kHousing & Shelter$20k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$957
Median grant
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States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACH Child and Family Services$957
02The need
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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 (FY20–23, $499k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Heroes and Horses Inc: $40k → 10%Carter's House: $15k → 14%Heroes and Horses Inc: $20k → 10%Foster Kids Charity: $23k → 14%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $1k → 11%Foster Kids Charity: $15k → 14%Community Partners of Denton County: $7k → 8%MHMR Visions: $107k → 11%MHMR Visions: $90k → 11%MHMR Visions: $40k → 11%Brighter Tomorrows: $30k → 14%MHMR Visions: $13k → 11%Hope Supply: $30k → 14%MHMR Visions: $10k → 11%Hope Supply: $30k → 14%Hope Supply: $30k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Heartspace Initiative’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 86%.

Heartspace Initiativelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$792k · 9 repeat orgs$387k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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10

Total granted

$792k
$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+1%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $957 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic BenefitEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MV
    MHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $260k · revenue +114%
  • GC
    GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $90k · revenue +39%
  • PI
    PEDIPLACE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $60k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • VR
    VALOR RANCH
    one grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue -42% · 75% of their budget
  • BP
    Bochy's Place
    one grant, 2020 · $59k
  • T
    Traffick911graduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +33%
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.

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Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
2
Homeless Coalition of Dallas

Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area

Human Services
3
Texas Community Counseling

When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…

Human Services
4
Dfw Cares for Kids

Provide donated items to families

Community Improvement
5
Needful Things Fresh Start

The Needful Things Outreach Program expanded its impact in 2025 by providing consistent high volume support to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or financial hardship. Each Saturday, we distributed fresh fruits,…

Human Services
6
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
7
Shars Hands Inc

To serve those less fortunate and honor veterans

Human Services
8
Together We Thrive

Together We Thrive aims to connect vulnerable homeless foster and sex-trafficked youth across North Texas with their community. We commit to walk beside these youth while helping them rewrite their future. We seek to replace labels of…

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9
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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Hendrick Home for Children
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Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services
12
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Supply Co; the most unlike its peers is Foster Kids Charity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION: $259,500 · Human ServicesMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATIONHOPE SUPPLY CO: $90,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY COHEROES AND HORSES INC: $59,800 · Human ServicesHEROES AND HORSES INCFOSTER KIDS CHARITY: $37,500 · Human ServicesFOSTER KIDS CHARITYBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INCI LOOK LIKE LOVE INC: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $22,633 · Human ServicesNEW TRANSITIONS CENTER INC: $110,000 · OtherNEW TRANSITIONS CENTER INCBettie D Gonzalez Foundation of Hop: $65,000 · OtherBettie D Gonzalez Foundation o…PEDIPLACE INC: $60,000 · OtherPEDIPLACE INCBochy's Place: $58,500 · OtherBochy's PlaceHUGS CAFE INC: $20,000 · OtherHUGS CAFE INC+1 more: $957 · OtherVALOR RANCH: $175,000 · Public BenefitVALOR RANCHGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $90,000 · EducationTraffick911: $30,000 · Crime & LegalYouth With Faces: $30,000 · PhilanthropyHOME POINT: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$519,433Other$314,457Public Benefit$175,000Education$90,000Crime & Legal$30,000Philanthropy$30,000Housing & Shelter$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION: $259,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetVALOR RANCH: $175,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetNEW TRANSITIONS CENTER INC: $110,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO: $90,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $90,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPEDIPLACE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHEROES AND HORSES INC: $59,800 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTraffick911: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYouth With Faces: $30,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOME POINT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetI LOOK LIKE LOVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetHUGS CAFE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCARTERS HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCommunity Partners of Denton County INC: $6,600 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $1,033 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $957 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.

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.

Communities Foundatio…The Rees-Jones Founda…United Way of Metropo…The Dallas FoundationDallas Mavericks Foun…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…National Life Group C…Texas Women's Foundat…Community Foundation …Texas Instruments Fou…Teb Foundation IncPatrick & Beatrice Ha…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX25× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Dallas Mavericks Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Texas Instruments Foundation · Teb Foundation Inc · Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Heartspace Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heartspace Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Heartspace Initiative?

    Find your warmest path to Heartspace Initiative through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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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