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Leland Fikes Foundation Inc

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.

$8.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$17MPublic Benefit$2.5MCivil Rights$2.2MHuman Services$1.8MEducation$1.2MReligion$1.1MArts & Culture$1.1MPhilanthropy$910kOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k65 grants · $4.5M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.4M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$96M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$1,000,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS$600,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$600,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$400,000
DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC$250,000
PARKLAND FOUNDATION$250,000
TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND$250,000
TRUTH PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$150,000
TWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC$150,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$150,000
CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB$150,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$125,000
NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC$100,000
WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC$100,000
ABIDE WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES INC$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.4M) 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.

area typical 11%THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $50k → 14%THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $50k → 14%THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $50k → 14%SPRINGBOARD CENTER THE: $50k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $35k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $30k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $30k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS: $50k → 10%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS: $50k → 10%VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER (DBA LITERACY ACHIEVES): $50k → 14%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $25k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC (DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE): $50k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $100k → 14%CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $50k → 14%CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $50k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $50k → 14%CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $30k → 14%THE AFIYA CENTER: $25k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $125k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $125k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $75k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $50k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $50k → 14%KID NET FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%KID NET FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $50k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $25k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY DOES IT: $75k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY DOES IT: $50k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $25k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC THE: $100k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $50k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $50k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $40k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $35k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
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OH
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CA
MD
NM
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 72 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
29

Total granted

$26M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+17%

Still filing today

89%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $955k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther

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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +4%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +40%
  • PF
    PARKLAND FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • US
    UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER (DBA UT SOUTHWESTERN)
    one grant, 2021 · $1.1M
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • TS
    TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXASgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +83%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
2
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health provides comprehensive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of the individual, advocates…

Health
3
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

—
5
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
6
Texas Defender Service

See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…

Civil Rights
7
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.

—
8
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

—
9
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
10
Dallas International University

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

Education
11
Planned Parenthood South Texas

The purpose of Planned Parenthood South Texas ("the Organization") is to provide family planning and sexual healthcare services to both adults and teenagers, with particular emphasis on serving low-income and medically underserved…

Health
12
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Avow Foundation for Abortion Access. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%7%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%3%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr10%45%35–55yr13%7%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/104
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,700

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.

04the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 123 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/102
Grantees still filing
62/102
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER — $3,050,000 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTERTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER — $1,600,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL …UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER (DBA UT SOUTHWESTERN) — $1,100,000 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER (DBA UT SOUTHW…THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $500,000 · OtherCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB — $475,000 · OtherTWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC — $450,000 · Other+46 more — $4,924,700 · Other+46 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $3,230,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,850,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF A…PARKLAND FOUNDATION — $2,061,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION+12 more — $1,090,000 · Health+12 moreTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND — $1,100,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS FREE…ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $325,000 · Civil RightsACLU Found…TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND — $300,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS JUST…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $300,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER…ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $250,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE F…Avow Foundation for Abortion Access — $150,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $125,000 · Civil RightsJOLT INITIATIVE — $100,000 · Civil Rights+4 more — $199,000 · Civil Rights+4 moreJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $525,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE PA…The Family Place — $275,000 · Human ServicesThe Family…HOUSING FORWARD — $245,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FO…THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER — $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRING…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $200,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAM…TIDES CENTER — $170,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENT…CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY DOES IT — $125,000 · Human ServicesKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $100,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE — $100,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONCILIO — $100,000 · Human Services+13 more — $455,000 · Human Services+13 moreWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $450,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $325,000 · EducationFORT GRIFFIN FANDANGLE ASSOC INC — $175,000 · EducationLAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $170,000 · EducationWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $125,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $75,000 · EducationWHOLLY INFORMED SEX ED DBA WISE — $75,000 · Education+3 more — $150,000 · EducationCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $300,000 · Public BenefitCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $275,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $150,000 · Public BenefitMARCH TO THE POLLS — $125,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc — $50,000 · Public BenefitDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $550,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS TRUTH RACIAL HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$12,099,700Health$9,231,000Civil Rights$2,849,000Human Services$2,725,000Education$1,545,000Public Benefit$900,000Arts & Culture$850,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $3,230,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,850,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION — $2,061,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND — $1,100,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $550,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $525,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB — $475,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC — $450,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $450,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $325,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $325,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND — $300,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Family Place — $275,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $275,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $250,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC — $250,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD — $245,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SERVICES — $235,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $220,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SPRINGBOARD CENTER — $200,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $190,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORT GRIFFIN FANDANGLE ASSOC INC — $175,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetLAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $170,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $170,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $166,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $165,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUTH PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER — $150,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetAvow Foundation for Abortion Access — $150,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE STEPS — $135,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $130,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY DOES IT — $125,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $125,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARCH TO THE POLLS — $125,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $125,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER — $120,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetOLD JAIL ART CENTER — $115,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budget
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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
  • Who funds TWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS JUSTICE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds The Family Place ↗
  • Who funds Center for Public Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds ABIDE WOMENS HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
  • Who funds FORT GRIFFIN FANDANGLE ASSOC INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…The Addy FoundationHillcrest FoundationThe Moody FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Texas Instruments Fou…Meadows Foundation IncHoblitzelle FoundationDallas Jewish Communi…
The Dallas FoundationTX60.8× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Moody Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community 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 Leland Fikes Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Leland Fikes Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Leland Fikes Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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