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Jordan Family Foundation at a glance

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Jordan Family 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.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$2.0MEducation$1.3MHuman Services$690kRecreation & Sports$406kReligion$218kPhilanthropy$167kYouth Development$110kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$100,000
FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDENS$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
THE BRIDGE HOMELESS RECOVERY CENTER$25,000
DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY (VIA ICI)$25,000
EAST WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
AUSTIN STREET CENTER$20,000
VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION$20,000
ROGERS WILDLIFE REHABILIATION INC$15,000
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 (FY17–21, $475k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $400k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $50k → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 9 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$4.2M
$867k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+37%

Still filing today

44%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationReligionOther
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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +422%
  • BE
    BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $450k · revenue +92%
  • WO
    Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center
    3× · 2017–2019 · $183k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -16%
  • TH
    Texas Health Resources Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +37%
  • CT
    Circuit Trail Conservancy
    one grant, 2020 · $83k · revenue -9%
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
Southwestern Health Resources Hospitals Joc

To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.

Health
2
Texas Health Resources

Through its affiliates, thr operates an integrated healthcare system with services and facilities throughout north central texas to improve the health of the people in the communities they serve.

Health
3
Southwestern Health Resources

To further the missions of utsw and thr on a local, regional and national level through the creation of a clinically integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other care providers to deliver healthcare across the continuum and by…

Health
4
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Scott & White Healthcare Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
6
Trinity Park Conservancy

Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…

Community Improvement
7
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers- Capitol Area

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
8
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
9
Baylor Medical Center at Irving

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
The Trail Conservancy

To protect, enhance and connect the Ann and Roy Butler Trail at Lady Bird Lake for the benefit of all.

Environment
11
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
12
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation At Shield Ranch. 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

16 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. 16 of the 31 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,800,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONTexas Health Resources Foundation: $100,000 · Health+1 more: $50,000 · HealthAUSTIN COLLEGE: $1,080,000 · EducationAUSTIN COLLEGETHE SALVATION ARMY: $240,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $150,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AU…ST MARKS SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherST MARKS SCHOOLFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $80,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSMU: $80,000 · OtherSMUIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · OtherLOVE FIELD AIRPORT MODERNIZATION CORPORATION: $53,466 · OtherCircuit Trail Conservancy: $83,334 · OtherCircuit Trail ConservancyTHE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH: $100,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANC…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $80,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC+10 more: $210,000 · Other+10 moreBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EV…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesWestcave Outdoor Discovery Center: $182,600 · EnvironmentTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $166,666 · PhilanthropyEast-West Ministries International: $138,000 · Religion
Health$1,950,000Education$1,080,000Other$1,406,800Human Services$475,000Environment$182,600Philanthropy$166,666Religion$138,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,800,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE: $1,080,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $450,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetWestcave Outdoor Discovery Center: $182,600 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $166,666 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH: $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCircuit Trail Conservancy: $83,334 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRIDGE STEPS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROGERS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationRaymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Jordan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jordan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 31 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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