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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.

$360k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$733kEducation$446kHealth$329kPhilanthropy$273kYouth Development$204kFood & Nutrition$203kCommunity Improvement$196kCrime & Legal$78kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CATCH UP READ$20,000
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$20,000
THE CENTER$20,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS$15,000
SPITLER SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES$10,000
WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$8,000
AGAPE CLINIC$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $25k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $20k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $7k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $3k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $30k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $30k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $30k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $40k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $2k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $1k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $3k → 14%JONATHANS PLACE: $30k → 14%JONATHANS PLACE: $27k → 14%JONATHANS PLACE: $25k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES: $10k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $3k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $3k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $25k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $30k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $5k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $4k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $3k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $3k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $500 → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 45 repeat orgs$430k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
34

Total granted

$2.1M
$362k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+45%

Still filing today

64%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +105%
  • TF
    The Family Place
    8× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +6%
  • DS
    DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • BF
    BONTON FARMS
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • PI
    PARTNERS IN OPPORTUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +37%
  • FF
    FOOD FOUNDATION DBA HUNGER BUSTERS
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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.…

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3
Dallas International University

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

Education
4
Dallas Kids First

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.

Human Services
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
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
7
Dallas Regional Chamber

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.

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8
Dcms Foundation

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

Health
9
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
10
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

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…

Employment
11
Dallas Innovation Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; 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.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
34/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $161,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKTHE SALVATION ARMY OF NORTH TEXAS: $158,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY OF NORTH TEXASTHE AGAPE CLINIC DALLAS: $65,000 · OtherTHE AGAPE CLINIC DALLASTHE TEACHING TRUST: $65,000 · OtherTHE TEACHING TRUSTAFTER8TOEDUCATE: $55,000 · OtherJUBILEE PARK COMMUNITY CENTER: $55,000 · OtherBONTON FARMS: $50,000 · OtherHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $52,750 · OtherSPITLER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN OPPORTUNITY INC: $40,000 · Other+45 more: $403,045 · Other+45 moreThe Family Place: $147,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PlaceKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE: $111,500 · Human ServicesKID NET FOUNDATION JONA…WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $88,750 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY…DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $78,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOC…YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $29,500 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DA…CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICES: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyDRAPER RICHARDS KAPL…DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $125,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS SOCIAL VENTUR…THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $65,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY …+5 more: $23,500 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADERS 2 LEADERS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute: $15,250 · Youth DevelopmentUPLIFT EDUCATION: $30,500 · EducationUNITED TO LEARN: $25,000 · EducationDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $23,000 · EducationRISE SCHOOL OF DALLAS: $16,500 · EducationDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $4,500 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationBIG THOUGHT: $41,500 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $13,500 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY: $12,500 · Arts & CultureGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $70,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,144,795Human Services$530,750Philanthropy$464,000Youth Development$125,250Education$111,500Arts & Culture$87,500Community Improvement$70,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $161,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $147,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $125,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE: $111,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $88,750 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $78,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $70,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $65,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TEACHING TRUST: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAFTER8TOEDUCATE: $55,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $52,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS: $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $41,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPITLER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN OPPORTUNITY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOUR FRIENDS PLACE: $34,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $30,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $29,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRISE SCHOOL OF DALLAS: $16,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMomentous Institute: $15,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAGAPE CLINIC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS ON TEENS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTO BE LIKE ME: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION FOR METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PARTNERS IN OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • 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 EDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC ↗
  • Who funds METROCREST SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RISE SCHOOL OF DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Momentous Institute ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…Texas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…The Addy FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationHillcrest FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Moody FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…The Perot Foundation
The Dallas FoundationTX44.8× affinity21 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 · 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Make It Count Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Make It Count Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    16report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Make It Count Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Make It Count 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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