· Private foundation
Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FDN FOR YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF TARRANT COUNTY | $25,000 |
| ACADEMY 4 | $25,000 |
| GRAPEVINE RELIEF & COMMUNITY EXCHANGE | $25,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT | $25,000 |
| BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| CANCER CARE SERVICES | $25,000 |
| SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY | $25,000 |
| ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS GTR TARRANT CNTY | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF TARRANT COUNTY | $25,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS | $25,000 |
| FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY | $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 (FY20–26, $590k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
39 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2026, 21 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k 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
- CCCLAYTON CHILD CARE INC2× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +61%
- COCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC3× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +7%
- TPTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY4× · 2020–2026 · $95k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TCTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue -4%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STARgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue +106%
- RPROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEXASone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -23%
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.
Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
To strengthen the lives of children and families.
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clayton Child Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Noggin Educational Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 119 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 CLAYTON CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNTHSC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds CREATE AND COLLABORATE ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH REPORT ↗
- Who funds 6 STONES MISSION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DENTAL HEALTH FOR ARLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKEN BABY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The YouthVantage Alliance ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ACADEMY 4 ↗
- Who funds NEW KEY SCHOOL INC ↗
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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · The Morris Foundation · United Way of Tarrant County · Wm & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund Xxxxx3001 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Rainwater Charitable 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 Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust 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.