· Private foundation
Meadows Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $507k
- $50k–250k96 grants · $9.2M
- $250k+19 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | $4,929,120 |
| Cafe Momentum | $3,400,000 |
| Commit2Dallas and Child Poverty Action Lab for Opportunity 2040 | $700,000 |
| Communities Foundation of Texas for Educate Texas | $575,000 |
| Uvalde Cisd Moving Forward Foundation | $500,000 |
| Housing Forward | $500,000 |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | $500,000 |
| Texas Tribune Inc | $350,000 |
| Texas Water Foundation Inc | $300,000 |
| Forest Forward | $275,000 |
| United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $250,000 |
| Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation | $250,000 |
| Teach for America Inc | $250,000 |
| United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $250,000 |
| Texas Agricultural Land Trust | $250,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $8.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
174 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 103 since wound down; 75 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M 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
Southern Methodist University6× · 2019–2024 · $27M · revenue +37%- MMMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS6× · 2019–2024 · $15M · revenue +418% · 52% of their budget
Texas 20365× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CFCommunities Foundation of Texas for The Meadows Foundation Partnership Fundone grant, 2023 · $500k
- DCDallas County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center dba Metrocareone grant, 2022 · $500k
- NFNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFEone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -26%
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.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans
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.…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
Commission Shift is reforming oil and gas oversight by building public support to hold the Railroad Commission of Texas accountable to its mission in a shifting energy landscape.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peoplefund and the most unlike its peers is Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance Education Fund. 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 29 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
463 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. 463 of the 604 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds Texas 2036 ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WATER TRADE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED NATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREST FORWARD ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds Stages ↗
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 Moody Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Texas Bar 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 Meadows Foundation Inc 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
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.