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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.

$159k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
56%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 26
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $392k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$154k53%
FY202316$482k56%
FY202219$272k68%
FY202125$466k36%
FY202026$418kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$477kHealth$360kHuman Services$280kReligion$135kRecreation & Sports$85kYouth Development$63kArts & Culture$55kEmployment$45kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
OR
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children$300,00030%
Behind Every Door Ministries Inc$233,33325%
Park Cities Presbyterian Church$130,1464n/a
Highland Park Isd Education Foundation$100,00011%
I Am A Golfer Foundation$55,00035%
Youth Believing in Change Inc$50,00051%
Scholarshot$45,00031%
City Year Inc$30,00030%
St Philips School and Community Center$27,50020%
Empower African Children$15,0002n/a
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($692k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBehind Every Door Ministries Inc: $233,333 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHighland Park Isd Education Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetI Am A Golfer Foundation: $55,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetYouth Believing in Change Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetScholarshot: $45,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCity Year Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Philips School and Community Center: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDallas 24 Hour Club Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSouthwestern Medical Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNotre Dame of Dallas Schools Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetElizabeth Toon Charities: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAdvocates for Community Transformation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLiving Water International: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFort Worth Junior Golf Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMount Sinai Health System Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDeliverFund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMen of Nehemiah Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeen Lifeline Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYoung Life: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Texas Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClayton Dabney for Kids With Cancer: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWestern Rivers Conservancy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRails to Trails Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Pi Beta Phi Philanthropies: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetClark Fork Coalition: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Texas Pga Foundation: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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 Foundation of Texas IncTX32.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Lawrence B Dale 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.

About Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation

How much does Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation give?
Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $158,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Health (20%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children ($300k), Behind Every Door Ministries Inc ($233k), Park Cities Presbyterian Church ($130k).
Does Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Rowling Foundation.
Where is Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation based?
Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 66 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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