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Kelly & Jeff Dillard Family Foundation at a glance

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Kelly & Jeff Dillard Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Religion$2.8MAnimals$2.1MEducation$1.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.4MHealth$1.0MPhilanthropy$767kRecreation & Sports$530kHuman Services$383kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$59k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH$1,210,000
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$360,000
JEWEL CHARITY$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF LITTLE LEAGUE$25,000
THE NET FORT WORTH INC$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $372k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HUMAN COALITION: $250k → 5%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $102k → 11%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HUMAN COALITION: $10k → 5%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 13 repeat orgs$642k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$10M
$612k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+40%

Still filing today

62%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionPhilanthropyHealthCrime & LegalEducationOther
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
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +47%
  • CC
    Cook Children's Medical Center
    3× · 2017–2019 · $901k · revenue +123%
  • CG
    College Golf Fellowship
    4× · 2017–2022 · $405k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY - KINDERFROGS
    one grant, 2017 · $140k
  • TG
    THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION
    one grant, 2017 · $102k · revenue +22%
  • CC
    COOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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 International University

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

Education
2
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
5
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
6
Global Golf

Provide pastoral chaplaincy and counseling support to women in professional and college golf; leadership and mentor training; offer Bible studies spiritual disciplines and evangelistic outreach to women in professional and college golf.

Religion
7
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
8
North Texas Christian Foundation

National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.

Philanthropy
9
Episcopal Health Foundation

To advance the Kingdom of God with specific focus on human health and well-being, through grants, research and initiatives in support of the mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.

Health
10
Wi Cook Foundation Inc

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
11
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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12
Life Network

Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Undivided Heart Inc dba Golden Monarch Healing Center. 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

18 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. 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2,414,000 · OtherALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCHFORT WORTH ZOO: $2,047,600 · OtherFORT WORTH ZOOJEWEL CHARITY: $765,830 · OtherJEWEL CHARITYALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $529,500 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL+14 more: $517,471 · Other+14 moreSHIELD 616 INC: $1,401,500 · Crime & LegalSHIELD 616 INCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,230,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRIST…Cook Children's Medical Center: $900,700 · HealthCook Chil…+1 more: $25,961 · HealthCollege Golf Fellowship: $405,000 · ReligionJAY LOWDER HARVEST MINISTRIES INC: $368,000 · Religion+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionHUMAN COALITION: $260,000 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $102,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyAxia International: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,274,401Crime & Legal$1,401,500Education$1,230,000Health$926,661Religion$783,000Human Services$372,000Philanthropy$151,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHIELD 616 INC: $1,401,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,230,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center: $900,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $405,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetJAY LOWDER HARVEST MINISTRIES INC: $368,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetHUMAN COALITION: $260,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $102,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetAxia International: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $47,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NET FW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Devlin Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Once Upon a Time Foun…Community Foundation …Bnsf Railway Foundati…Christian Community F…Communities Foundatio…Verizon FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …Raymond James Charita…
Once Upon a Time FoundationTX13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Once Upon a Time Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 Kelly & Jeff Dillard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelly & Jeff Dillard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kelly & Jeff Dillard Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kelly & Jeff Dillard Family 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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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