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Jim & Linda McNatt Foundation Inc at a glance

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Jim & Linda McNatt Foundation Inc

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.

$323k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Recreation & Sports$3.2MEducation$1.5MCrime & Legal$179kPhilanthropy$105kAnimals$90kHuman Services$75kHealth$50kScience & Tech$50kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$227
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS$300,180
DENTON ANIMAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION$10,000
LIGHT THE TOWER COLLECTIVE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $1.0M → 8%THE PINES EDUCATION GROUP CATHOLIC CAMP LEADERSHIP MISSION: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $303k → 8%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $300k → 8%TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $300k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $300k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $250k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $250k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $250k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $200k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $200k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $200k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $200k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $151k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $5k → 8%CASA: $75k → 8%CASA: $10k → 8%DENTON COUNTY FOOD CENTER: $5k → 8%CASA OF DENTON COUNTY: $5k → 8%DENTON BIBLE CHURCH: $5k → 8%CASA: $5k → 8%NORTH TEXAS COLLABORATIVE TAX INSTITUTE: $62k → 8%NORTH TEXAS COLLABORATIVE TAX INSTITUTE: $28k → 8%NORTH TEXAS COLLABORATIVE TAX INSTITUTE: $25k → 8%NORTH TEXAS COLLABORATIVE TAX INSTITUTE: $20k → 8%NORTH TEXAS COLLABORATIVE TAX INSTITUTE: $20k → 8%LIGHT THE TOWER COLLECTIVE: $10k → 8%LIGHT THE TOWER COLLECTIVE: $10k → 8%OUR DAILY BREAD: $10k → 8%NORTH TEXAS COLLABORATIVE TAX INSTITUTE: $5k → 8%OUR DAIRY BREAD: $5k → 8%UNITED WAY OF DENTON COUNTY: $50k → 8%UNITED WAY OF DENTON COUNTY: $50k → 8%UNITED WAY OF DENTON COUNTY: $5k → 8%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 8 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$5.3M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+1%

Still filing today

75%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyCivil RightsAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +28%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF DENTON COUNTY INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $105k · revenue +21%
  • DA
    DENTON ANIMAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $90k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • US
    UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • TP
    THE PINES EDUCATION GROUP CATHOLIC CAMP LEADERSHIP MISSION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • DC
    DENTON COUNTY FOOD CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
North Dallas Food Pantry

North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.

Human Services
2
Denton County Crime Stoppers Inc

Crime Stop.

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3
The Austin Denton Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Dallas Morning News Charities

For 40 years, The Dallas Morning News Charities has been dedicated to fighting hunger and homelessness throughout North Texas. Thanks to the generosity of our community, weve raised more than $38.5 million to support local nonprofits that…

Philanthropy
5
Denton Community Health Clinic

Denton Community Health Clinic's purpose is to provide affordable, comprehensive, quality health care to all, regardless of ability to pay.

—
6
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
7
North Texas Christian Foundation

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

Philanthropy
8
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
9
Trauma Support Services of North Texas

The mission of Trauma Support Services is to provide healing and resilience for individuals and communities affected by trauma through accessible mental health therapy and trauma-informed education.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Denton Chamber of Commerce

Promote Denton, Texas Community

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11
North Texas State Fair Association Inc

To preserve and promote agriculture and western heritage, and support and encourage youth in their projects, and promote tourism in the city of denton.

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12
The University of Texas Foundation No 1

To support the university of texas system

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of North Texas Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Light the Tower Collective. 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

9 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. 9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $3,681,934 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXASNorth Texas Collaborative Tax Institute Inc: $159,000 · Other+13 more: $194,375 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,122,591 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS…UNITED WAY OF DENTON COUNTY INC: $105,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF DENTON COUN…DENTON ANIMAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $90,311 · AnimalsOUR DAILY BREAD INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$4,035,309Philanthropy$1,227,591Animals$90,311Food & Nutrition$15,000Civil Rights$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,122,591 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNorth Texas Collaborative Tax Institute Inc: $159,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DENTON COUNTY INC: $105,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetDENTON ANIMAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $90,311 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetLight The Tower Collective: $20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDenton High School Gridiron Club Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 5.7% 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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds North Texas Collaborative Tax Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF DENTON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds DENTON ANIMAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Light The Tower Collective ↗
  • Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD INC ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds Denton High School Gridiron Club Inc ↗

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…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jim & Linda McNatt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim & Linda McNatt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to Jim & Linda McNatt Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Jim & Linda McNatt Foundation Inc 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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