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Meadows Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
161
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$4.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$45MHealth$29MEnvironment$11MHuman Services$8.8MHousing & Shelter$6.6MCommunity Improvement$6.4MYouth Development$5.3MPhilanthropy$4.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 161 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $507k
  • $50k–250k96 grants · $9.2M
  • $250k+19 grants · $14M
$75,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$718M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas$500,000
Uvalde Cisd Moving Forward Foundation$500,000
Housing Forward$500,000
Texas Tribune Inc$350,000
Texas Water Foundation Inc$300,000
Forest Forward$275,000
Parkland Foundation$250,000
Teach for America Inc$250,000
Cafe Momentum$250,000
Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation$250,000
Texas 2036$250,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DeliverFund: $98k → 11%Springboard Collaborative: $57k → 22%Parker County Center of Hope: $50k → 8%Altruistic: $75k → 9%Mission Granbury: $100k → 10%Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin: $92k → 14%Children's Bereavement Center Of The Rio Grande Valley Inc: $60k → 23%Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation: $500k → 25%YMCA of Central Texas: $71k → 16%Uvalde Cisd Moving Forward Foundation: $500k → 25%ManeGait: $100k → 5%Center for Transforming Lives: $100k → 11%Brookwood in Georgetown Vocational: $150k → 6%Family Support Services of Amarillo Inc: $100k → 20%Texas Center for Child and Family Studies: $100k → 27%Streetside Showers Inc: $60k → 5%Amala Foundation: $75k → 10%MHMR Visions: $134k → 11%ChildSafe: $100k → 16%ChildSafe: $80k → 16%Hand to Hold: $65k → 10%Cornerstone Assistance Network: $65k → 11%Center for Pursuit: $65k → 16%Children's Bereavement Center of South Texas: $150k → 16%Jewish Family Service of Dallas Incorporated: $250k → 14%Behind Every Door Ministries: $100k → 14%Texas Center for Child and Family Studies: $199k → 10%Texas Center for Child and Family Studies: $150k → 10%Texas Center for Child and Family Studies: $100k → 10%Texas Center for Child and Family Studies: $100k → 10%Ending Community Homelessness Coalition: $150k → 10%CitySquare: $75k → 14%Women in Need of Generous Support: $75k → 14%Jubilee Park & Community Center: $100k → 14%CitySquare: $75k → 14%Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance: $500k → 14%Mommies In Need: $250k → 14%Mommies In Need: $133k → 14%Human Rights Initiative of North Texas: $125k → 14%Human Rights Initiative of North Texas: $125k → 14%Human Rights Initiative of North Texas: $125k → 14%Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance: $95k → 14%Human Rights Initiative of North Texas: $95k → 14%Transition Resource Action Center: $67k → 14%Housing Forward: $500k → 14%Dwell With Dignity Inc: $75k → 14%Encore Park Dallas: $300k → 14%Buckner Children and Family Services: $209k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
KY
VA
AZ
NM
TN
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103M · 174 repeat orgs$37M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

174
344

Total granted

$103M
$32M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+7%

Still filing today

81%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $27M · revenue +37%
  • MM
    MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $15M · revenue +418% · 52% of their budget
  • Texas 2036
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • RT
    Remember the Alamo Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -9%
  • CF
    Communities Foundation of Texas for The Meadows Foundation Partnership Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • NF
    NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -26%
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
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
2
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
3
Texas Defender Service

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…

Civil Rights
4
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
5
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
6
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
7
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
8
Texas Alliance for Patient Access

Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans

Community Improvement
9
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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10
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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11
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

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.

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12
Commission Shift

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peoplefund; 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.
04the grantee network

463 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. 463 of the 604 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
75
Early backer (in before they grew)
454/463
Grantees still filing
270/463
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southern Methodist University: $26,910,851 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityTeach for America Inc: $1,350,000 · EducationTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $1,300,000 · Education+21 more: $7,727,204 · Education+21 moreCommunities Foundation of Texas for Educate Texas: $3,880,000 · OtherCommunities Foundation of Texas for Edu…The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas: $2,000,000 · OtherCommit2Dallas and Child Poverty Action Lab for Opportunity 2040: $1,400,000 · OtherTexas 2036: $2,050,000 · Other+110 more: $30,898,463 · Other+110 moreMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $14,531,000 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEA…+18 more: $3,958,500 · Health+18 moreTEXAS WATER FOUNDATION: $1,427,050 · EnvironmentTEXAS WATER TRADE: $750,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $500,000 · EnvironmentWATER FOUNDATION: $400,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $325,000 · EnvironmentTexas Agricultural Land Trust: $300,000 · EnvironmentTexas Solar Energy Society Inc: $270,000 · Environment+12 more: $2,146,800 · EnvironmentHOUSING FORWARD: $1,095,500 · Human ServicesUvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES: $649,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $540,000 · Human ServicesMOMMIES IN NEED: $383,000 · Human ServicesEncore Park Dallas: $300,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $250,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $249,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $200,000 · Human ServicesTexas Network of Youth Services Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE: $195,220 · Human Services+3 more: $480,000 · Human ServicesCAFE MOMENTUM: $3,750,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute: $300,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $295,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION CITIZEN INC: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentFEEDING TEXAS: $628,000 · Community ImprovementFOREST FORWARD: $550,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY: $500,000 · Community ImprovementVALLEY INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT: $375,000 · Community ImprovementJUST COMMUNITY INC: $350,000 · Community Improvement
Education$37,288,055Other$40,228,463Health$18,489,500Environment$6,118,850Human Services$5,541,720Youth Development$4,520,500Community Improvement$2,903,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSouthern Methodist University: $26,910,851 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $14,531,000 over 6y, 52% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $3,750,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTexas 2036: $2,050,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTEXAS WATER FOUNDATION: $1,427,050 over 6y, 35% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,350,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $1,300,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS: $1,200,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $1,095,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $1,000,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation: $1,000,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $842,816 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $800,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS WATER TRADE: $750,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetCONNECTED NATION INC: $700,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTEXAS CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES: $649,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $628,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $600,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $570,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetFOREST FORWARD: $550,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $540,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF TEXAS INC: $525,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTexas A&M San Antonio Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY: $500,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStages: $481,777 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTexans Care For Children Inc: $415,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetWATER FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $400,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $385,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMOMMIES IN NEED: $383,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetVALLEY INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT: $375,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetFIRST3YEARS: $350,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetJUST COMMUNITY INC: $350,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $325,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $325,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $325,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC: $325,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMomentous Institute: $300,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetEL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $300,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.9% 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 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 Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Stages ↗

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 Moody FoundationThe Dallas FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Texas Women's Foundat…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationThe Addy FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Communities Foundatio…Rainwater Charitable …Texas Bar Foundation
The Moody FoundationTX136.9× affinity98 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 604 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home