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Morning Star 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.
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 $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $397k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $540,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $520,250 |
| OUR CALLING INC | $360,000 |
| ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL | $65,250 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARY FASHION SHOW & LUNCHEON | $55,000 |
| ACT - ADVOCATE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION | $50,000 |
| MERCY STREET MINISTRIES WEST DALLAS | $35,000 |
| THE WELL | $25,000 |
| WILKINSON CENTER | $25,000 |
| WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| VOICE OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| CAMP JOHN MARC | $20,250 |
| OASIS CENTER | $20,000 |
| AUSTIN STREET CENTER | $20,000 |
| BEHIND EVERY DOOR | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.5M) 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 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- OIOURCALLING INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +140%
- DLDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +179%
- WDWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- IHINTERFAITH HOUSING COALITIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- WOWIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · 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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
Dallas life reaches out to the homeless men, women, and children of the metroplex with food, shelter, clothing, education, and long-term drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs.
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.…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
Dallas Bethlehem Center supports families living in our South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood through education, health & wellness programs and technology supports.
To provide job readiness and life skills programs to women.
Operation care international exists to glorify god. in obedience to his will, we connect impoverished children and the homeless to jesus christ providing for their physical needs through god's provision both at home and abroad.
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…
The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brother Bills Helping Hand and the most unlike its peers is Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 43 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
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 OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Care Center Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OASIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds WIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHOT ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Dan and Martha Lou Beaird Foundation · Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Rosemary Haggar Vaughan Family Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc
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 Morning Star Family Foundation 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.
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.
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