How much did MORNING STAR FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of MORNING STAR FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

student scholarshipswest dallasstreetwomen'shopeyouthministries

2021

student scholarshipsyouthwomen'sstreethopeministrieswest dallas

2022

student scholarshipswomen'shopeministriesstreetwest dallasyouth

2023

studentstreetministrieswest dallaswomen'syouthhope

2024

ministrieswomen'shopestreetwest dallasyouth

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 36 grants

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

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
WILKINSON CENTER$25,000
VOICE OF HOPE$25,000
WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL$25,000
THE WELL$25,000
CAMP JOHN MARC$20,250
THE ARK GROUP$20,000
BROTHER BILL'S HELPING HAND$20,000
BEHIND EVERY DOOR$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.8M · 35 repeat orgs$694k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.8M

$689k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%

+318%

Still filing today

40%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

OC
OUR CALLING INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +522%
DL
DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +331%
WD
WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL
5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +61%

Funded once

SS
SEE SCHEDULE ATTACHED
one grant, 2019 · $629k
SA
SALVATION ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
one grant, 2020 · $25k
WO
WIPE OUT KIDS CANCERgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +318%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Dallas International University

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

Education

Dallas Christian School

Private christian school education - preschool through high school.

Education

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

North Texas Christian Foundation

As the North Texas affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Philanthropy

Dallas Mission for Life

Reaching out to the homeless men, women, and children of the dallas metroplex.

Housing & Shelter

Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County

Ugm-tc has a history of over 130 years of providing food, shelter, and comprehensive supportive services to thousands of men, women, and children.

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Dallas Christian Women's Job Corps

To provide job readiness and life skills programs to women.

Employment

COMMIT2DALLAS

Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage.

Education

University of Dallas

The university of dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. the university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues,…

Education

Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development

Dallas Baptist University

The purpose of dallas baptist university is to provide christ-centered quality higher education in the arts, sciences, and professional studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to traditional age and adult students in order to…

Education

Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

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…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ourcalling Inc 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.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

15/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,952,450Human Services$1,356,982Public Benefit$800,000Education$303,350Youth Development$50,000Philanthropy$28,400Recreation & Sports$5,000

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.

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.

The Dallas FoundationTX27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dan and Martha Lou Beaird Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Rosemary Haggar Vaughan · Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Foundation at Highland Park · Dallas Alumnae Association of Kappa

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OASIS CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +57% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463142385 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on OASIS CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Morning Star Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Morning Star Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MORNING STAR FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Morning Star Family Foundation?

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MORNING STAR FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Morning Star Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph