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Make It Count 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF NORTH TEXAS | $50,000 |
| DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $40,000 |
| READERS 2 LEADERS | $30,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| HHM HEALTH | $20,000 |
| THE CENTER | $20,000 |
| CATCH UP READ | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS | $15,000 |
| JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES | $10,000 |
| SPITLER SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS | $8,000 |
| AGAPE CLINIC | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $526k) 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.
45 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +105%
- TFThe Family Place8× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +6%
- DSDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- BFBONTON FARMSone grant, 2022 · $50k
- PIPARTNERS IN OPPORTUNITY INCone grant, 2023 · $40k
- FFFOOD FOUNDATION DBA HUNGER BUSTERSone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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…
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.…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Dallas kids first elevates dialogue on the impact of school board leadership for kids in dallas isd and supports school board elections with focus on outcomes for kids.
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.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.
The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a 501(c)(3) public-private consortium of public, private, civic and academia to support smart city initiatives in Dallas. Our definition of a Smart City is one at the intersection of community, data…
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Spitler School 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.
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 40 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 15% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 89 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 DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds KID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE ↗
- Who funds WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHING TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER8TOEDUCATE ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds READERS 2 LEADERS ↗
- Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds SPITLER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR FRIENDS PLACE ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds METROCREST SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RISE SCHOOL OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Perot 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 Make It Count 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.
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