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Jon R Withrow Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Jon R Withrow Charitable 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.

$279k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$172k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$367kHuman Services$193kReligion$23kArts & Culture$19kHealth$11kEnvironment$8kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $273k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$129k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION$171,700
CATHRYN L AND JON R WITHROW FOUNDATION$51,000
COUNCIL FOR LIFE$50,000
THE DALLAS WOMAN'S CLUB FOUNDATION$5,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $2k → 14%CATHRYN L AND JON R WITHROW FOUNDATION: $51k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $50k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $50k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $18k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $5k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $3k → 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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$539k · 10 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$539k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+63%

Still filing today

50%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR LIFE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $126k · revenue +52%
  • DT
    Dallas Theological Seminary
    2× · 2020–2021 · $9k · revenue +39%
  • Southern Methodist University
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • HP
    HP PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • DS
    DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    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
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
2
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Texas Women's Foundation

Texas Women's Foundation invests in removing the barriers to women's economic security, stability, and success through targeted research and advocacy, intentional grant making and leadership programs.

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6
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
7
University of Dallas

The university of dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. the university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues,…

Education
8
Dallas Mavericks Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
10
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
11
Dallas Bar Foundation

The purpose or purposes for which the Foundation is organized are educational and charitable, and to that end the corporation is formed to sponsor and encourage research, publications, institutes and forums for the furtherance of justice…

Crime & Legal
12
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is The Firefly 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $359,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $11,500 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $125,500 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR LIFECATHRYN L AND JON R WITHROW FOUNDATION: $51,000 · Human ServicesCATHRYN L AND JON R WITHROW FOUND…The Family Place: $11,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Place+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual …MEADOWS MUSEUM OF ART: $8,500 · OtherMEADOWS MUS…HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $7,700 · OtherHIGHLAND PA…Individual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual …HP PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $6,000 · OtherHP PRESBYTE…DALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherDALLAS WOMA…DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 · OtherDALLAS SYMP…CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $5,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S …SALVATION ARMY: $5,000 · OtherSALVATION A…ST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $3,000 · Other+2 more: $3,000 · OtherDallas Museum of Art: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FIREFLY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · Health
Education$370,750Human Services$189,500Other$64,700Arts & Culture$5,000Recreation & Sports$1,000Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $359,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $125,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCATHRYN L AND JON R WITHROW FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetThe Family Place: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIREFLY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Cathryn L and Jon R W…Communities Foundatio…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Cathryn L and Jon R Withrow FoundationTX17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cathryn L and Jon R Withrow Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Jon R Withrow Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jon R Withrow Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–5%
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.
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How do I get to Jon R Withrow Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jon R Withrow Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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