· Private foundation
Kenneth and Cherrie Garrett 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of KENNETH AND CHERRIE GARRETT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHURCH OAK CLIFF | $60,000 |
| MEN OF NEHEMIAH | $50,000 |
| OUR CALLING | $50,000 |
| CAMP JOHN MARC | $25,000 |
| EAST WEST | $22,000 |
| BEHIND EVERY DOOR | $10,000 |
| BONTON FARMS | $10,000 |
| KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE | $10,000 |
| WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FAMILY LEGACY | $10,000 |
| CRU | $6,000 |
| BOXES OF BLESSINGS | $5,000 |
| ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| KONNECT TO THE KONNECTION | $5,000 |
| DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- MOMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +12%
- MPMICAH PROJECT INC4× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +46%
- THTexas Health Resources Foundation5× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- ADATHON DONOR ADVISED FUND AT SCHWABone grant, 2022 · $1.2M
- YSYELLOWSTONE SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SCST CECILIA CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
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.
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…
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boxes of Blessing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 89 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 MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds MICAH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY TERRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOXES OF BLESSING ↗
- Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds STREAMS & VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds JPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Main Street Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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 · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc · Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · Morning Star Family Foundation · Fash Foundation · Adeline & George McQueen Foundation Xxxxx1007
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 Kenneth and Cherrie Garrett 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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