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Jwc Family Foundation at a glance

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Jwc 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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$790k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN$22,500
CHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITY$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$7,500
TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY$7,500
HARDIN SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$7,500
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$7,500
DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$7,500
OKLAHOMAN BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$7,500
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$7,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $15k → 8%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $8k → 10%ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%TCC NORTHEAST: $8k → 11%TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-COMMERCE: $8k → 13%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON: $8k → 14%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SAN ANTONIO: $5k → 16%EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $5k → 16%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 20%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%STEPHEN F AUSTIN: $8k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $8k → 13%OKLAHOMAN BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $8k → 14%ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%CHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $15k → 8%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%TARRANT COUNTY COMM FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - DALLAS: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - SAN ANTONIO: $10k → 16%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 20%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%STEPHEN F AUSTIN: $8k → 23%CHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $8k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - DALLAS: $5k → 14%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 20%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $8k → 22%STEPHEN F AUSTIN: $5k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $5k → 8%ALL SAINTS FOUNDATION GME: $50k → 11%DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $8k → 22%TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS DALLAS: $5k → 14%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $58k → 11%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$683k · 13 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
19

Total granted

$683k
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+6%

Still filing today

15%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +60%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN
    7× · 2017–2025 · $113k
  • UO
    UNIV OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
    6× · 2019–2024 · $70k

Funded once

  • AS
    ALL SAINTS FOUNDATION GME
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • TS
    TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
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
Howard Payne University

Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.

Education
2
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
3
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
4
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
7
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Southwestern Christian University

Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…

Education
10
Whitworth University

Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.

Education
11
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
12
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hardin-Simmons University; the most unlike its peers is Southwestern Adventist University. 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

11 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. 11 of the 37 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN: $112,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTINUNIV OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON: $70,000 · OtherUNIV OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTONALL SAINTS FOUNDATION GME: $50,000 · OtherALL SAINTS FOUNDATION GMEUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $42,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXASTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYCHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherCHAMBERLAIN UNIVERSITYTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $27,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - DALLAS: $20,000 · Other+19 more: $144,876 · Other+19 moreTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $265,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $17,500 · EducationTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY+7 more: $45,000 · Education+7 more
Other$552,376Education$327,500

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 budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $265,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Edwards University: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds St Edwards University ↗

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…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Jwc Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jwc Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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 37 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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