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Doswell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Human Services$4.2MEducation$3.4MCrime & Legal$3.3MHealth$3.2MCivil Rights$507kReligion$270kFood & Nutrition$85kRecreation & Sports$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $739k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.4M
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEXUS RECOVERY CENTER$2,053,487
TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY$750,000
THE BRIDGE$300,000
TWELFTH STEP MINISTRIES$270,000
DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY$150,000
DALLAS CASA$148,698
HOPE COTTAGE$140,000
SALVATION ARMY$125,000
TEXAS TECH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER$100,000
VICTORY THERAPY CENTER$75,000
Individual grant recipient$45,000
CLARENDON COLLEGE$25,000
THE ART OF LIVING$20,000
THE SENIOR SOURCE$20,000
EXODUS MINISTRIES$20,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $175k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $150k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $150k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $150k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $150k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE: $175k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE: $140k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE: $140k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE: $75k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE: $150k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $925k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $500k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $400k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $380k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $300k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 17 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -57% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

$14M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-57%

Still filing today

53%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 ServicesHealthCivil RightsRecreation & SportsArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

  • NR
    Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +46%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +44% · 68% of their budget
  • DC
    DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $775k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • YB
    YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -57%
  • TS
    THE STEWPOT
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • LL
    LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Childrens Advocacy Center of Hidalgo County Inc

The childrens advocacy center of hidalgo county, inc. provides services to abused children. services include on-site referrals for medical services. the organization follows up with authorities on efforts against the perpetrators of the…

Crime & Legal
2
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
3
Operation Care International Inc

Operation care international exists to glorify god. in obedience to his will, we connect impoverished children and the homeless to jesus christ providing for their physical needs through god's provision both at home and abroad.

Human Services
4
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights
5
Children's Advocacy Center of the South Plains

To bring together community resources to speed the healing of child victims of abuse and trauma.

Crime & Legal
6
The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology

Our mission is to provide accessible high-quality counseling, training, psychological evaluations, and educational testing that equip our clients to grow through lifes changes and challenges.

Health
7
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
8
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
9
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
10
Divine Canines

Divine canines therapy encourages smiles and brightens lives. to accomplish this, we recruit and train teams of dogs and their owners and organize and facilitate regular, frequent visits to residents of special care facilities.

Animals
11
Hope's Door New Beginning Center

The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…

Human Services
12
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Art of Living 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY — $2,625,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTEXAS WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY — $2,552,000 · OtherTEXAS WOMEN'S UNIVERSITYTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY — $750,000 · OtherTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITYTEXAS TECH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER — $400,000 · OtherTEXAS TECH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTERTWELFTH STEP MINISTRIES — $270,000 · Other+9 more — $575,000 · Other+9 moreTHE BRIDGE — $2,505,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGEDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $775,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CE…HOPE COTTAGE INC — $680,000 · Human ServicesHOPE COTTAGE INCNexus Recovery Center Incorporated — $3,503,487 · HealthNexus Recovery Center Incor…VICTORY THERAPEUTIC CENTER INC — $180,000 · HealthDALLAS CASA — $506,771 · Civil RightsOPERATION ORPHANS INC — $65,000 · Recreation & SportsEXODUS MINISTRIES — $40,000 · Crime & LegalThe Dallas Opera — $20,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$7,172,000Human Services$3,960,000Health$3,683,487Civil Rights$506,771Recreation & Sports$65,000Crime & Legal$40,000Arts & Culture$20,000Youth Development$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNexus Recovery Center Incorporated — $3,503,487 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHE BRIDGE — $2,505,000 over 5y, 68% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $775,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE COTTAGE INC — $680,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetDALLAS CASA — $506,771 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetVICTORY THERAPEUTIC CENTER INC — $180,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetOPERATION ORPHANS INC — $65,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES — $40,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArt of Living Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetThe Dallas Opera — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE
  • Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
  • Who funds HOPE COTTAGE INC
  • Who funds DALLAS CASA
  • Who funds VICTORY THERAPEUTIC CENTER INC
  • Who funds OPERATION ORPHANS INC
  • Who funds EXODUS MINISTRIES
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC
  • Who funds Art of Living Inc
  • Who funds The Dallas Opera
  • Who funds YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE 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.

The Perot FoundationTX17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Perot Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Chi Omega Education and Charity Fund of Dallas · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment 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 Doswell 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Doswell Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Doswell Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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