Texas · Private foundation
John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,460,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $112M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $4.7M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $5.2M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $4.3M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $4.8M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $112k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $136k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $126k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $108k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Children's Medical Center | $8,732,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Fort Worth Museum of Science and History | $2,020,000 | 3 | 17% |
| Saving Hope Animal Rescue Fund | $155,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Arizona Humane Society | $154,414 | 8 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $105,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Center for Transforming Lives | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Health Resources Foundation | $79,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Fort Worth Zoological Association | $77,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewel Charity Ball Incorporated | $72,154 | 9 | 1% |
| Childhelp Inc | $61,221 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Virginia Hobbs Charitable Trust Simmons Bank Trustee · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Winn-Dunaway Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation with peer funders
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About John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation
- How much does John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation give?
- John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $4,676,145 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (85%), Arts & Culture (11%), Animals (2%).
- Who are John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cook Children's Medical Center ($8.7M), Fort Worth Museum of Science and History ($2.0M), Saving Hope Animal Rescue Fund ($155k).
- Does John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Garvey Texas Foundation Inc, Bnsf Railway Foundation.
- Where is John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation based?
- John Henry Dean III and Shirley Lawson Dean Foundation is based in TX.
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