· Private foundation
Leslie and Bryan Diers Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NY | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DALLAS | $1,500 |
| CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $1,500 |
| CARE DALLAS | $1,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT AND WHITE DALLAS FOUND | $1,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THEATRE ASPEN | $1,000 |
| WILKINSON CENTER | $500 |
| TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY | $500 |
| DALLAS WOMAN'S CLUB FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY21–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- TCTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL3× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +11%
- RMRonald McDonald House of Dallas Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +55%
- SMSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +259%
Funded once
- CRCRISTO REYone grant, 2024 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
- PHPhoenix Houses of Texas Incone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -46%
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.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
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.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
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…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Medical Center at Irving, to encourage broad-based public support, and to advance its medical objectives including sponsorship of patient care, research, and educational and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dallas Womans Club Foundation. 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 45 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 33 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 THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Houses of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
- Who funds C A R E DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERY AVENUE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING 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 · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation · Kline Family Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Leslie and Bryan Diers 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.
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.