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North Texas Charitable 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $412k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Instituto Cultural en Pro de la Mujer y Las Ninez AC | $225,000 |
| Operation Kindness | $50,000 |
| Operation Finally Home | $50,000 |
| Relational Care Ministries Inc | $40,000 |
| North Texas Food Bank | $30,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $30,000 |
| Dallas Mission for Life | $30,000 |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas | $25,000 |
| Bethany House of Laredo | $25,000 |
| Children's Advocacy Center of Laredo-Webb County | $25,000 |
| Sacred Heart Children's Home | $25,000 |
| Casa De Misericordia | $25,000 |
| Ruthe B Cowl Rehabiliation Center | $25,000 |
| Unbound | $21,600 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $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 (FY24–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
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.
The mission of Dallas Services is to enable individuals with disabilities and other special needs to achieve their potential by fostering community inclusiveness and independence.
Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.
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.
La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
Furever Home Pet Rescue is an all-breed all-volunteer 501c3 non-profit organization based in the DallasFt Worth area We receive no government funding and are not funded nor assisted by any outside agency such as United Way Our life-saving…
For 40 years, The Dallas Morning News Charities has been dedicated to fighting hunger and homelessness throughout North Texas. Thanks to the generosity of our community, weve raised more than $38.5 million to support local nonprofits that…
The goal of our organization is to help alleviate the problem of homelessness among our veterans and their families by assisting with transitional and permanent housing.
to demonstrate Christ's love by providing a continuum of quality services and care to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of our residents with dignity and respect.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
Dallas area habitat for humanity, inc. is a nondenominational christian not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to sponsor specific projects in habitat development for the dallas, texas area. modest but adequate housing, new or…
A Christian ministry providing safe shelter and nurturing support for women and their children during an immediate time of need. Bridges Safehouse seeks to encourage, empower and equip pregnant, homeless women in crisis, and their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life and the most unlike its peers is Childrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web. 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 42 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 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.
26 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. 26 of the 28 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 OPERATION FINALLY HOME ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds Relational Care Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life ↗
- Who funds CASA DE MISERICORDIA ↗
- Who funds Ruthe B Cowl Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Laredo Inc ↗
- Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE SUPPLY CO ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SERVOLUTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LAREDO ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DELTA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDCAREGROUP ↗
- Who funds Christ's Haven for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dallas Society of Visual Communications Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JOURNEY TO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Society of Visual Communications Inc ↗
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: South Texas Outreach Foundation · The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation · United Way of Laredo Inc · Womens City Club of Laredo · The Mano Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust · Laredo Area Community Foundation · The Prairie Foundation · Coserv Charitable Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial 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 North Texas Charitable 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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