· Private foundation
Lawrence B Dale 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| T JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER DALLAS | $10,000 |
| BS&W DALLAS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE | $10,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION (ACT) | $10,000 |
| WEEKDAY SCHOOL OF UPUMC | $5,000 |
| WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB | $2,500 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BOOKER T WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS | $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 (FY20–24, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN3× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +62%
- BEBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $233k · revenue +55%
- IAI Am A Golfer Foundation3× · 2020–2023 · $55k · revenue +311%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $197k
- HPHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +96%
- CPCISTERCIAN PREP SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $35k
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.
We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
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…
Uwmd is a community-based social change organization that unites the community to create lasting change. for 100 years, we've brought together passionate change-makers, alongside corporate, civic and nonprofit partners, to strengthen…
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.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Rails to Trails Conservancy. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 66 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 TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds I Am A Golfer Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHOT ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER AFRICAN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH TOON CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION 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 · Rowling Foundation · Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Texas Instruments Foundation · The David B Miller Family Foundation · The Jordan Spieth Family Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones 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 Lawrence B Dale 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 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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