· Private foundation
Joy 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| CURE RTD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TURTLE WING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOB TALLMAN'S CHILDREN'S CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $15,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS | $10,000 |
| LONE OAK GIVES | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| KSBJ | $5,000 |
| MAKE A WISH | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ACANGLETON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL3× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +41%
- BTBOB TALLMAN'S CHILDRENS CHARITIES INC2× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +65%
The Brookwood Community Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- DDDIFFERENT DAY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $185k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS HARBOR (DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER)one grant, 2022 · $50k
- SLSojourn Landing DBA The Landingone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Young texans against cancer (ytac) is an independent, nonprofit organization comprised of men and women who have been affected by cancer or are seeking to become more actively involved in the cancer community. our organization is focused…
Texas baptist children's home embraces children and families in need in order to empower and equip them for a promising future.
To provide services to children, youth, and families along with a child-placing agency. to provide therapeutic foster care.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To offer healing and hope to children and families affected by abuse, abandonment or neglect.
Texas palliative care operates to strengthen and further the goals and purpose of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
The organization is established for the purpose of supporting coordinated investments and strategies that advance the social welfare of underrepresented communities in texas with a particular focus on people of color, people with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Different Day Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 39% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DIFFERENT DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGLETON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOB TALLMAN'S CHILDRENS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Sojourn Landing DBA The Landing ↗
- Who funds Cure RTD Foundation ↗
- Who funds Turtle Wing Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EQUUSEARCH MOUNTED SEARCH AND RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Assessment Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds JAB CARES ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OUTDOOR DREAMS ↗
- Who funds BRAZORIA COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDIA GROUP ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Joy Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.