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Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust at a glance

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Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$740k
Granted FY2026still arriving
37
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2026.

Human Services$790kEducation$705kHealth$330kHousing & Shelter$300kYouth Development$195kCrime & Legal$160kFood & Nutrition$160kArts & Culture$135kOther$0
02FY2026 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$30,000
TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCE FOUNDATION$30,000
FDN FOR YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$30,000
ACADEMY 4$25,000
SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY$25,000
CANCER CARE SERVICES$25,000
CREATE & COLLABORATE$25,000
PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT$25,000
BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF TARRANT COUNTY$25,000
THE WELMAN PROJECT$25,000
GRAPEVINE RELIEF & COMMUNITY EXCHANGE$25,000
ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS GTR TARRANT CNTY$25,000
FORT WORTH STEAM ACADEMY$25,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHE SUPPLY: $10k → 8%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $10k → 11%FAMILY FIRST: $10k → 13%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $10k → 11%SIXTY & BETTER INC: $15k → 11%THE CONCILIO: $15k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15k → 11%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN FORT WORTH: $15k → 11%CLAYTON CHILD CARE INC: $75k → 11%CLAYTON CHILD CARE INC: $35k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF TARRANT COUNTY: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF TARRANT COUNTY: $10k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $25k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $25k → 11%H O P E FARM INC: $20k → 11%PROJECT 4031: $15k → 11%TARRANT COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR: $15k → 11%H O P E FARM INC: $15k → 11%TARRANT COUNTY ASSN FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $30k → 11%GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC: $15k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $15k → 11%6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $20k → 11%GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC: $15k → 11%6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $15k → 11%ARLINGTON CHARITIES INC: $10k → 11%JUSTIN'S PLACE: $10k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $15k → 11%LENA POPE HOME: $15k → 11%COMMUNITY HOSPICE OF TEXAS: $15k → 11%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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 39 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
61

Total granted

$1.7M
$905k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+14%

Still filing today

85%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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

  • CC
    CLAYTON CHILD CARE INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +61%
  • CO
    CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +7%
  • TP
    THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY
    4× · 2020–2026 · $95k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TC
    TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue -4%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STARgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue +106%
  • NK
    NEW KEY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +15%
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
Texans Care for Children Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
2
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
3
The Royal School System

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.

Education
4
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
5
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
6
Center for Public Policy Priorities

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…

Public Benefit
7
Trinity Charter School

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…

Education
8
Tip of Texas Family Outreach Inc

To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

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9
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies

To strengthen the lives of children and families.

Human Services
10
North Texas Christian Foundation

National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.

Philanthropy
11
FIRST3YEARS

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…

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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 Clayton Child Care Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/91
Grantees still filing
59/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORT WORTHTRINITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $55,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH FT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCH: $45,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $75,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTYCommunity Food Bank: $55,000 · Other+51 more: $945,000 · Other+51 moreCLAYTON CHILD CARE INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesCLAYTON CHILD CARE INCSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $65,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COU…BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMIL…CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $45,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING …HOPE FARM INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INC6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $35,000 · Human Services6 STONES MISSION NETWORKGRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE: $35,000 · Human ServicesGRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COM…GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTarrant County Association For the Blind: $25,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $25,000 · Human Services+14 more: $200,000 · Human Services+14 moreFOUNDATION FOR THE YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $75,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR T…EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $70,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL FIRS…UNTHSC FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationUNTHSC FOUNDATIO…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $35,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN S…THE SHAKEN BABY ALLIANCE: $30,000 · EducationTHE SHAKEN BABY …NEW KEY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationNEW KEY SCHOOL I…ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEXAS: $25,000 · EducationROCKETSHIP PUBLI…GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $20,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER WICHITA FALLS AREA: $20,000 · EducationFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationTexas Academy of Figurative Art: $15,000 · EducationIDEA Public Schools: $15,000 · EducationStar Sponsorship Program Inc: $15,000 · Education+3 more: $30,000 · Education+3 moreTexas Health Resources Foundation: $85,000 · HealthTexas Hea…CANCER CARE SERVICES: $50,000 · HealthCANCER CA…DENTAL HEALTH FOR ARLINGTON INC: $30,000 · HealthDENTAL HE…Texas Health Resources: $25,000 · HealthTexas Hea…OPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $10,000 · HealthRUTLEDGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthAll Saints Health Foundation: $10,000 · HealthSIMPLY GRACE: $10,000 · HealthIMMUNIZATION COLLABORATION OF TARRANT COUNTY: $10,000 · HealthTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterTARRANT COUNTY SAMARITAN HOUSING INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCREATE AND COLLABORATE: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP SUMMIT INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSURVIVE AND THRIVE EDUCATION: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLITERACY UNITED INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPAULIE AYALA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsMulticultural Alliance: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,175,000Human Services$650,000Education$440,000Health$240,000Housing & Shelter$175,000Youth Development$175,000Civil Rights$140,000

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 budgetCLAYTON CHILD CARE INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $100,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $75,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $70,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Food Bank: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER CARE SERVICES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNTHSC FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCREATE AND COLLABORATE: $45,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE FARM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFORT WORTH REPORT: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDENTAL HEALTH FOR ARLINGTON INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SHAKEN BABY ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNEW KEY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHelping Restore Ability: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTarrant County Association For the Blind: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEXAS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Health Resources: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTREAMS & VALLEYS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCAMP SUMMIT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER WICHITA FALLS AREA: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetSIXTY AND BETTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJPS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUSTINS PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

Thomas M Helen McKee …Community Foundation …Sid W Richardson Foun…Amon G Carter Foundat…Communities Foundatio…Paul E Andrews Jr Fou…Ann L Rhodes and Caro…The Morris FoundationUnited Way of Tarrant…Wm & Catherine Bryce …Bnsf Railway Foundati…Rainwater Charitable …
Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX109.3× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 119 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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