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M R and Evelyn Hudson 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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
83
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$275k
Largest
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 FY20202024.

Education$6.6MArts & Culture$3.6MYouth Development$3.0MCommunity Improvement$1.5MReligion$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.0MHealth$795kHuman Services$750kOther$0
02FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$40,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Perot Museum of Nature and Science$275,000
The Rabbit Hole KC$275,000
Young Life Northeast Texas Region$210,000
Oklahoma Hall of Fame$125,000
House of Shine Inc$125,000
Stand Ministries$125,000
Young Life Northeast Texas Region$100,000
Out Loud Dallas$100,000
SustainED Leaders$100,000
Stand Ministries$100,000
CCC Leadership Program Inc$100,000
Marriage Today dba XO Marriage$100,000
Museum of the Bible$75,000
Dallas Spark$75,000
Lumin Education$75,000
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, $715k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 10%AWL Foundation: $15k → 8%AWL Foundation: $15k → 8%AWL Foundation: $10k → 15%United Inner City Services Inc: $35k → 15%AWL Foundation: $10k → 15%The Learning Center of North Texas: $50k → 11%The Learning Center of North Texas: $50k → 11%Cumberland Rest Home Trinity Terrac: $20k → 11%Stepping Stones Foundation: $25k → 11%Stepping Stones Foundation: $25k → 11%Stepping Stones Foundation: $10k → 11%The Parenting Center: $20k → 11%The Parenting Center: $20k → 11%Housing Forward: $30k → 14%The Concilio: $50k → 14%The Concilio: $50k → 14%The Concilio: $50k → 14%The Concilio: $50k → 14%The Concilio: $40k → 14%Encore Park Dallas: $20k → 14%Encore Park Dallas: $10k → 14%Encore Park Dallas: $10k → 14%Bachman Lake Together: $25k → 14%Bachman Lake Together: $25k → 14%Bachman Lake Together: $25k → 14%Bachman Lake Together: $25k → 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

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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.
$18M · 95 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

95 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
43

Total granted

$18M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $685k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

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

  • HO
    HOUSE OF SHINE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $992k · revenue +76% · 48% of their budget
  • THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $725k · revenue +185%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $705k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE
    one grant, 2021 · $225k
  • YL
    Young Life North Central Texas Regi
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • TL
    The Learning CenterN Texas dba LinK
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

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
Dallas International University

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

Education
2
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

3
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
4
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
5
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.

6
Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council

Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…

Arts & Culture
7
Dallas Contemporary

Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…

Arts & Culture
8
COMMIT2DALLAS

Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher…

Education
9
Progress Texas Institute

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

Civil Rights
10
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
11
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
12
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Destined for Victory Ministries Bay Area Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr9%28%35–55yr15%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%9%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr9%20%35–55yr15%14%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/100
the rest of the field
16%
7,009/43,999

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

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 152 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/93
Grantees still filing
53/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Keller Independent School District — $800,000 · OtherKeller Independent School DistrictChance to Soar — $625,000 · OtherChance to SoarYoung Life Northeast Texas Region — $610,000 · OtherYoung Life Northeast Texas RegionKidStand Ministries Inc dba Stand — $365,000 · OtherStand Ministries — $350,000 · Other+84 more — $7,073,129 · Other+84 moreTHE RABBIT HOLE KC — $1,150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RABBIT HOLE KCDallas SPARK — $425,000 · Arts & CultureDallas SPARKNorth Texas Performing Arts — $325,000 · Arts & CultureNorth Texas Performin…BIG THOUGHT — $300,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHT29 PIECES — $300,000 · Arts & Culture29 PIECESPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $275,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NATUR…NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $215,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $185,000 · Arts & CultureThe Actors Conservatory Theatre — $162,399 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $550,000 · Arts & Culture+10 moreHOUSE OF SHINE INC — $992,071 · EducationHOUSE OF SHINE IN…UPLIFT EDUCATION — $675,000 · EducationUPLIFT EDUCATIONSUSTAINED LEADERS — $550,000 · EducationSUSTAINED LEADERSLUMIN EDUCATION — $425,000 · EducationLUMIN EDUCATIONTeach for America Inc — $175,000 · EducationTeach for America…+9 more — $325,399 · Education+9 moreYOUNG LIFE — $705,000 · Youth DevelopmentOutLoud Dallas — $270,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute — $195,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe GEMS Camp — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADERS 2 LEADERS — $50,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $300,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE KELLER LIBRARY — $195,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $120,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · PhilanthropyVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $85,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST — $56,070 · PhilanthropyTHE DOUG MILLER AND DON SANDERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $55,932 · PhilanthropyTHE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC — $725,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE CONCILIO — $240,000 · Human ServicesBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER — $100,000 · Human ServicesLEARNING CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesStepping Stones Foundation — $60,000 · Human ServicesAWL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARENTING CENTER — $40,000 · Human ServicesEncore Park Dallas — $40,000 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FORWARD — $30,000 · Human Services+1 more — $20,000 · Human Services
Other$9,823,129Arts & Culture$4,037,399Education$3,142,470Youth Development$1,500,000Philanthropy$947,002Housing & Shelter$735,000Human Services$715,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC — $1,150,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetHOUSE OF SHINE INC — $992,071 over 5y, 48% of budgetTHE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC — $725,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $705,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION — $675,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChance to Soar — $625,000 over 3y, 86% of budgetSUSTAINED LEADERS — $550,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetDallas SPARK — $425,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION — $425,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetNorth Texas Performing Arts — $325,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBIG THOUGHT — $300,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budget29 PIECES — $300,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $275,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOutLoud Dallas — $270,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetTHE CONCILIO — $240,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY — $232,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWESTLAKE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetEDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC — $220,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $215,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMomentous Institute — $195,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KELLER LIBRARY — $195,000 over 4y, 90% of budgetCCC Leadershhip Program Inc — $189,129 over 3y, 80% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $185,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $175,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Actors Conservatory Theatre — $162,399 over 5y, 11% of budgetOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME — $150,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetChrist's Haven for Children Inc — $145,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $135,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Women Inc — $125,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC — $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRENSSELAERVILLE INSTITUTE — $120,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetThe GEMS Camp — $120,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetPASTORS 411 FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTACA INC — $115,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetArtisan Productions — $100,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER — $100,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetLEARNING CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetDestined for Victory Ministries Bay Area Inc — $95,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC — $95,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWhat if We Could — $85,399 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKERS RIGHTS — $85,000 over 4y, 15% 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 THE RABBIT HOLE KC
  • Who funds HOUSE OF SHINE INC
  • Who funds THE HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION
  • Who funds Chance to Soar
  • Who funds SUSTAINED LEADERS
  • Who funds Dallas SPARK
  • Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION
  • Who funds North Texas Performing Arts
  • Who funds BIG THOUGHT
  • Who funds 29 PIECES
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC
  • Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
  • Who funds OutLoud Dallas
  • Who funds THE CONCILIO
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds WESTLAKE ACADEMY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
  • Who funds Momentous Institute
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KELLER LIBRARY
  • Who funds CCC Leadershhip Program Inc
  • Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc
  • Who funds The Actors Conservatory Theatre
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX54.6× affinity42 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 · Meadows Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc

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 M R and Evelyn Hudson 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
26report 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, FY2025

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 M R and Evelyn Hudson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to M R and Evelyn Hudson 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 152 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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