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Keliher 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR AMERICAN AND INT'L LAW | $5,590 |
| YMCA | $5,181 |
| TEXAS WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | $2,735 |
| TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER | $2,575 |
| DALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,560 |
| THE DICKEY FOUNDATION | $1,030 |
| TRUSTED WORLD | $515 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN | $500 |
| CISTERCIAN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $250 |
| CUBA TRAVEL SERVICE | $170 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TCTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW6× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +16%
- DCDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC5× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +7%
- DHDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +906%
Funded once
- LOLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERSone grant, 2024 · $7k
- TRTRINITY RIVER AUDUBON CENTERone grant, 2022 · $6k
- MFMETHODIST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
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…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 68 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 THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Texas Women's Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPARK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DIRECTIONS 12 ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BRING THE LIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE DICKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds Unlocking Doors Inc ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · The Addy Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Kline Family Foundation · The Graham and Carolyn Holloway Family 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 Keliher Family 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.
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