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Kenneth and Cherrie Garrett Foundation at a glance

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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.

$283k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.2MReligion$407kHuman Services$117kHealth$106kEducation$101kHousing & Shelter$73kRecreation & Sports$58kInternational$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$980k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE$10,000
FAMILY LEGACY$10,000
WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL$10,000
BEHIND EVERY DOOR$10,000
BONTON FARMS$10,000
CRU$6,000
KONNECT TO THE KONNECTION$5,000
ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
BOXES OF BLESSINGS$5,000
DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$2,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%STARFISH PROJECT: $2k → 16%BOTH ENDS BELIEVING: $5k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%STARFISH PROJECT: $2k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $50k → 14%OUR CALLING: $50k → 14%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $10k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
IN
CA
CO
MD
TN
DC
MS
TX
FL
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$890k · 58 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
24

Total granted

$890k
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+26%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 ServicesHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitEducationReligionOther
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

  • MO
    MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +12%
  • MP
    MICAH PROJECT INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +46%
  • AC
    AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART
    5× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • AD
    ATHON DONOR ADVISED FUND AT SCHWAB
    one grant, 2022 · $1.2M
  • YS
    YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • WB
    WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
3
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
4
Texas Health Resources

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.

Health
5
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
6
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
7
Mhs Physicians of Texas

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,…

Health
8
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
9
Trinity University

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

Education
10
Criswell College

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.

Education
11
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATHON DONOR ADVISED FUND AT SCHWAB: $1,158,102 · OtherATHON DONOR ADVISED FUND AT SCHWABST JUDE CHURCH OAK CLIFF: $265,000 · OtherST JUDE CHURCH OAK CLIFFCAMP JOHN MARC: $80,000 · Other+59 more: $425,826 · Other+59 moreMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,100 · Human ServicesBOTH ENDS BELIEVING INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesEast-West Ministries International: $39,000 · ReligionGREATER EUROPE MISSION: $5,000 · ReligionBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $2,000 · ReligionTexas Health Resources Foundation: $14,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $8,160 · HealthJEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED: $4,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $20,000 · PhilanthropyJPS FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropyAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $14,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Fort Worth Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $1,600 · Arts & CultureNORTH FORT WORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $800 · Arts & CultureTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Public BenefitDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $2,100 · Public Benefit
Other$1,928,928Human Services$135,100Religion$46,000Health$36,260Philanthropy$27,100Arts & Culture$23,900Public Benefit$23,100

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 budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMICAH PROJECT INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY TERRACE FOUNDATION INC: $11,572 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOXES OF BLESSING: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Legacy Missions International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $8,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTREAMS & VALLEYS INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMain Street Ministries Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJPS FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER EUROPE MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOTH ENDS BELIEVING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrees For Houston: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFor the Nations Refugee Outreach: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Fort Worth Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetStarfish Project Incorporated: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRIBUTE TO VALOR FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH FORT WORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIFFS ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $100 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 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 AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
  • Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY TERRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOXES OF BLESSING ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
  • Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds STREAMS & VALLEYS INC ↗
  • Who funds Main Street Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds JPS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗

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…Prairie Creek Partner…Thomas M Helen McKee …The Rees-Jones Founda…The Dallas FoundationJames and Dorothy Dos…Lee Ann and Steven Va…The Roach Foundation …Hillcrest FoundationMorning Star Family F…Fash FoundationAdeline & George McQu…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX22.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kenneth and Cherrie Garrett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth and Cherrie Garrett 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Kenneth and Cherrie Garrett Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kenneth and Cherrie Garrett 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 89 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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