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Margaret Gill Clements Foundation at a glance

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Margaret Gill Clements Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.5MReligion$978kRecreation & Sports$867kInternational$310kEducation$215kCrime & Legal$136kFood & Nutrition$106kPhilanthropy$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$39,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS HEALTH$1,000,000
SKY RANCH$60,000
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
CLEMENTS FOUNDATION$39,600
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$20,000
DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$8,000
NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE$4,000
AUSTIN STREET SHELTER$4,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $50k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 14%TO BE LIKE ME: $8k → 14%JONATHANS PLACE: $8k → 14%TO BE LIKE ME: $4k → 14%JONATHANS PLACE: $8k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 22 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
6

Total granted

$3.2M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+62%

Still filing today

68%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SR
    SKY RANCHES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $735k · revenue +117%
  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $220k · revenue +45%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $132k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +62%
  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
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
2
Dallas International University

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

Education
3
Criswell College

The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
7
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
8
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
9
Texas Trees Foundation

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

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10
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
11
Dallas Theological Seminary

The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.

Education
12
East Texas Baptist University

East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…

Education
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 Clements 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

19 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. 19 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS HEALTH: $1,000,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHPARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $865,000 · OtherPARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSKY RANCHES INC: $735,000 · OtherSKY RANCHES INCMISSION TO THE WORLD: $190,000 · OtherMISSION TO THE WORLDIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · Other+11 more: $393,800 · Other+11 moreTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $220,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTT…CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 · HealthST JUDE CHI…FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC: $132,000 · EnvironmentDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $108,000 · Human ServicesKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE: $16,000 · Human ServicesTO BE LIKE ME: $12,000 · Human ServicesCompassion International Incorporated: $120,000 · InternationalLANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP: $45,000 · ReligionKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $40,000 · ReligionBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $10,000 · ReligionTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $40,000 · Education
Other$3,333,800Health$440,000Environment$152,000Human Services$136,000International$120,000Religion$95,000Education$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSKY RANCHES INC: $735,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $220,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC: $132,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $108,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMENTS FOUNDATION: $70,800 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $28,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTO BE LIKE ME: $12,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY STREET: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationThe New Covenant Foun…George E Seay III Fou…Christian Community F…Servant FoundationThe Pauline and Austi…The Dan and Martha Lo…The Rees-Jones Founda…The Signatry Charitab…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX18.4× affinity7 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 · The New Covenant Foundation · George E Seay III Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Pauline and Austin Neuhoff Foundation · The Dan and Martha Lou Beaird Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 Margaret Gill Clements Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret Gill Clements Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Margaret Gill Clements Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Margaret Gill Clements 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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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