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Jay and Ruth Pack 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.

$558k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$118k
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.

Education$945kEnvironment$617kPhilanthropy$349kFood & Nutrition$312kReligion$255kHuman Services$158kArts & Culture$119kHealth$102kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $378k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$118,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS$60,000
GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER$50,000
COMMIT2DALLAS (COMMIT PARTNERSHIP)$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF KANSAS CITY$50,000
UMKC FOUNDATION$50,000
CENTER FOR GROWING TALENT (PMA)$25,000
NO KID HUNGRY BY SHARE OUR STRENGTH$25,000
HADASSAH$20,000
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC$15,000
NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER$13,000
MADDIE'S MISSION FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$10,000
DALLAS ARBORETUM$8,600
CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM$7,200
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 (FY19–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $180 → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $180 → 16%VILLAGE SHALOM: $14k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $13k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $12k → 5%DALLAS AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 14%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $20k → 17%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 37 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
48

Total granted

$2.5M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+24%

Still filing today

59%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • DA
    DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $539k · revenue +13%
  • UF
    UMKC FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $380k · revenue +2%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    3× · 2018–2020 · $110k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS (AUCTION & DINNER)
    one grant, 2019 · $24k
  • TT
    THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +149%
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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
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.

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3
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
4
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

—
5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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6
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
10
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Duvdevan. 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

66 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. 66 of the 109 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/66
Grantees still filing
42/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $199,360 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $109,626 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKPOWELL GARDENS INC: $77,057 · OtherPOWELL GARDENS INCSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $52,800 · OtherDALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM CENTER: $50,538 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherCOMMIT2DALLAS (COMMIT PARTNERSHIP): $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS: $49,772 · OtherFIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY: $36,800 · OtherVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $38,391 · Other+71 more: $329,839 · Other+71 moreUMKC FOUNDATION: $380,000 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATIONTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $349,433 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $78,493 · EducationNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOU…+4 more: $23,520 · EducationDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $539,499 · EnvironmentDALLAS ARBORETUM AN…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $326,313 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATIO…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $101,800 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY…THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $15,360 · Philanthropy+4 more: $5,580 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR FRESH PRODUCE BY IFPA INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionBrighter Bites Inc: $35,228 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $3,600 · Food & NutritionThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $60,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $5,000 · International+1 more: $1,800 · InternationalTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $37,256 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $16,700 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,400 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,980 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,044,183Education$831,446Environment$539,499Philanthropy$449,053Food & Nutrition$138,828International$71,800Arts & Culture$66,336

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 budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $539,499 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $380,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $349,433 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $326,313 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $109,626 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $101,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FRESH PRODUCE BY IFPA INC: $100,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $78,493 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC: $77,057 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $52,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $38,391 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $37,256 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY: $36,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBrighter Bites Inc: $35,228 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,180 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $22,160 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $16,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $15,360 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADDIES MISSION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY: $9,600 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $3,600 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Scott & White Health: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC REPERTORY THEATRE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIGVISION Foundation: $1,080 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBe the Difference Foundation: $1,040 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FRESH PRODUCE BY IFPA INC ↗
  • Who funds NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds Brighter Bites Inc ↗
  • Who funds DIGITAL NEST INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
  • Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds MADDIES MISSION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ABERG CENTER FOR LITERACY ↗
  • Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Communities Foundatio…Monterey Peninsula Fo…Texas Women's Foundat…Dallas Jewish Communi…Texas Instruments Fou…William T & Frances D…Patricia Werthan Uhlm…The Hoglund FoundationThe Addy FoundationJewish Community Foun…Ewing Marion Kauffman…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO19.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · William T & Frances D Grant Charitable Trust and Foundation · Patricia Werthan Uhlmann Foundation · The Hoglund Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Ewing Marion Kauffman 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 Jay and Ruth Pack Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jay and Ruth Pack Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Foundation for Fresh Produce By Ifpa Inc: 100% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 109 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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