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Lisa and Clay Cooley 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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.2M
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 FY2021–2024.

Religion$5.3MArts & Culture$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$598kHealth$398kPhilanthropy$276kFood & Nutrition$106kHousing & Shelter$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $299k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESTON ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST$1,200,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$500,000
SALVATION ARMY$375,000
CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL$147,068
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS$101,500
TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION$50,000
SALVATION ARMY$30,000
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$26,000
COUNCIL FOR LIFE$24,500
LUKE'S FASTBREAKS$24,400
THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION$20,000
EQUEST$19,280
SCHOLARSHOT$15,300
ABILITY CONNECTION$15,000
OPERATION KINDNESS$10,000
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 (FY21–24, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JUST SAY YES: $3k → 5%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%BIRD'S EYE VIEW PROJECT: $2k → 14%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $3k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $50k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $25k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $25k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $25k → 14%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $1k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY: $3k → 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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.9M · 37 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
37

Total granted

$7.9M
$940k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+27%

Still filing today

86%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $518k · revenue +7%
  • TS
    TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $198k · revenue +32%
  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR LIFE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH IRVING INC
    one grant, 2022 · $700k
  • SB
    SWEETHEART BALL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SP
    ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +49%

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
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
2
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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3
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
4
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
5
Dallas County Medical Society

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.

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6
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
7
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
8
Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health
9
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
10
Dallas International University

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

Education
11
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
12
Young Texans Against Cancer Dallas

Young Texans Against Cancer is a network of motivated young professionals collectively working together to raise awareness and funds to support the local Dallas cancer community. The Dallas chapter was established in 2007, as part of a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Earl Young Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development and Commu…Animal Rescue and AdoptionDallas Community Support Or…Parks, Wildlife & Conservat…Youth & Family Support Serv…Family Philanthropic Founda…Dallas Arts & Culture Organ…Family Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr18%5%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr8%23%35–55yr12%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr18%3%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr8%23%35–55yr12%35%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
17%
3,527/20,595

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

66 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. 66 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
41/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRESTON ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST — $4,605,000 · OtherPRESTON ROAD CHURCH OF CHRISTCHRIST CHURCH IRVING INC — $700,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH IRVING INCSALVATION ARMY — $587,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY+40 more — $500,365 · Other+40 moreNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MEDAL…DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $97,840 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHON…Dallas Museum of Art — $72,450 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum …+5 more — $42,711 · Arts & CultureTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL — $517,944 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL…TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $198,322 · PhilanthropyTEXAS STATE…COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $178,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES…Beyond The Burn Foundation — $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $18,710 · PhilanthropySouthern Methodist University — $500,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $24,472 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Education+4 more — $18,700 · EducationLukes FastBreaks — $113,140 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $42,000 · HealthHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $27,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · HealthBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $12,000 · HealthSHARED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $10,000 · Health+4 more — $5,250 · HealthCOUNCIL FOR LIFE — $124,500 · Human ServicesFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION — $8,500 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $5,000 · Human Services+5 more — $11,000 · Human ServicesNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $45,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY COMPASS — $8,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$6,392,365Arts & Culture$1,213,001Philanthropy$962,976Education$563,172Health$229,890Human Services$149,000Crime & Legal$53,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL — $517,944 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $198,322 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $178,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE — $124,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetEQUEST — $118,285 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetLukes FastBreaks — $113,140 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $97,840 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Museum of Art — $72,450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBeyond The Burn Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $42,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARBORETUM INC — $26,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetTURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $24,472 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation — $20,230 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT — $15,300 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEARL YOUNG FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $14,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE THRIVE — $12,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $10,545 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVolunteerNow — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKellermann Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHARED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS — $8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA of Texas — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKips Bay Boys & Girls Club — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG THOUGHT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF DALLAS ANIMAL SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $4,610 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Instruments Fou…The Moody FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Kline Family Foundati…The Perot FoundationJm Haggar Jr Family F…The Aileen and Jack P…The Addy FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationCraig and Kathryn Hal…
The Dallas FoundationTX39.4× affinity19 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 Instruments Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Kline Family Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Jm Haggar Jr Family Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Craig and Kathryn Hall 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 Lisa and Clay Cooley 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

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    How do I get to Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lisa and Clay Cooley 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.

    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 85 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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