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· Public charity

Make the Connection

To operate exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific or literary purposes by engaging directly in support of such purposes or by making distributions to other organizations for use in such purposes.

$391k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through 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, FY2022 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MHealth$250kHuman Services$200kYouth Development$13kCrime & Legal$12kPhilanthropy$8k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $369,607, the rows itemized in this filing. The $391,107 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $338k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SERGIO AND ANGELA GARCIA FOUNDATION$185,000
TEXAS ONE FUND$152,940
YOUNG LIFE$12,500
CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION$11,667
LONGHORN FOUNDATION$7,500
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%FOSTER VILLAGE INC: $200k → 10%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 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
The Texas Golf Association Foundation

To promote and expand community awareness of the game of golf in texas through programs serving junior golfers and the community at large.

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2
The Texas Golf Association

To promote the playing and advancement of the royal and ancient game of golf in texas.

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3
Southern Texas Professional Golfers Association Foundation

To introduce and provide youth in south texas broad opportunities to experience the game of golf, develop their talent as players and themselves as individuals and promote scholarship benefits to as many qualified candidates as possible.…

Recreation & Sports
4
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies

To strengthen the lives of children and families.

Human Services
5
Children's Golf Foundation Inc

To positvely impact the lives of young people, including those with special needs and veterans by providing educational programs that build character, instill life enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.

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6
American Golf Foundation

American Golf Foundation is dedicated to the enhancement and enrichment of communities by promoting the enjoyment of the game of golf and its ideals through charity, education and community service.

Employment
7
College Golf Fellowship

Minister to college golf teams.

Religion
8
Smu Golf Foundation

Support men's and women's intercollegiate golf programs at SMU

Education
9
Northern Texas Pga Foundation

Junior golf promotion

Recreation & Sports
10
American Junior Golf Foundation Inc

Donation of funds to local junior golf associations.

Recreation & Sports
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
Astros Golf Foundation

To ensure the pga tour's houston open continues to influence the houston community in a positive manner. to help foster the game of golf to the youth and underpriviledged individuals in the houston community.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Muny Conservancy. 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

9 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SERGIO AND ANGELA GARCIA FOUNDATION: $610,275 · Recreation & SportsTHE SERGIO AND ANGELA GARCIA FOUNDATIONAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerican Junior Golf Association IncMUNY CONSERVANCY: $287,000 · Public BenefitMUNY CONSERVANCYDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S FO…FOSTER VILLAGE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER VILLAGE…Texas One Fund Inc: $152,940 · Community ImprovementTexas One F…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $11,667 · Crime & LegalCANDID: $7,500 · Philanthropy
Recreation & Sports$650,275Public Benefit$287,000Other$250,000Human Services$200,000Community Improvement$152,940Youth Development$12,500Crime & Legal$11,667Philanthropy$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SERGIO AND ANGELA GARCIA FOUNDATION: $610,275 over 2y, 24% of budgetMUNY CONSERVANCY: $287,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOSTER VILLAGE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTexas One Fund Inc: $152,940 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $11,667 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANDID: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 the Connection funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Make the Connection. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Make the Connection?

    Find your warmest path to Make the Connection 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 9 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 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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