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Philip T Bee Charitable Trust

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.

$366k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$598kHealth$535kFood & Nutrition$521kHuman Services$421kEnvironment$359kPublic Safety & Disaster$175kEducation$175kAnimals$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $235k
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
PEROT MUSEUM$15,000
AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS$15,000
THE FOOD DEPOT$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CHILDREN FIRST COUNSELING CENTER$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
NORTH TEXAS GIVING DAY$10,000
THE OPEN ARTS FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $15k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $15k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10k → 10%AGE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $20k → 14%THE FOOD DEPOT: $15k → 12%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $20k → 14%THE FOOD DEPOT: $15k → 12%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $20k → 14%THE FOOD DEPOT: $15k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $15k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $6k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5k → 12%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $12k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $12k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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CA
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DC
TX
FL

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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 60 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

60 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
21

Total granted

$3.2M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+45%

Still filing today

72%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +396%
  • CF
    CHILDREN FIRST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +18%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • DE
    DON'T EVER GIVE UP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +145%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • HC
    HEMISFAIR CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +59%

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.

1
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
2
Glasstire

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

Arts & Culture
3
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
4
Dallas Contemporary

Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…

Arts & Culture
5
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
6
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…

Environment
7
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
8
Conservation X Labs Inc

To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.

Animals
9
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

10
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
11
Dallas Zoological Society

Support of the dallas zoo as an outstanding center of education, entertainment and wildlife conservation through fundraising, volunteerism, promoting public awareness and participation, and enhancing the visitor experience.

Animals
12
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation At Shield Ranch. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr13%22%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,740

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.

04the grantee network

62 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 84 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
51/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION — $240,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $220,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER — $185,000 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTERCHILDREN FIRST INC — $150,000 · OtherCHILDREN FIRST INCIndividual grant recipient — $80,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER — $64,000 · OtherLIFELINE FOR FAMILIES INC — $80,000 · Other+41 more — $750,400 · Other+41 moreDallas Museum of Art — $150,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum o…PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $75,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF…Austin Jazz Workshop — $48,000 · Arts & CultureAustin Jazz Wor…Center for Women and Their Work Inc — $41,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Wome…THE SANTA FE OPERA — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANTA FE OP…ALLISON ORR DANCE INC — $33,500 · Arts & CultureALLISON ORR DAN…THE OPEN ARTS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OPEN ARTS F…DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $32,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreMEALS ON WHEELS — $91,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHE…AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY — $90,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUP…THE FOOD DEPOT — $72,500 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD DEP…CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTEC…TEWA WOMEN UNITED — $41,000 · Human ServicesTEWA WOMEN U…Texas Land Conservancy — $61,500 · EnvironmentWestcave Outdoor Discovery Center — $58,000 · EnvironmentHarpswell Heritage Land Trust — $54,000 · EnvironmentDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $33,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $30,000 · EnvironmentSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST — $17,500 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $135,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION — $60,000 · HealthDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC — $30,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS — $20,000 · HealthTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL — $105,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH — $20,000 · Education+3 more — $7,000 · EducationAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $58,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH — $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIGHTNING BOY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,769,400Arts & Culture$470,000Human Services$354,500Environment$259,000Health$245,000Education$132,000Youth Development$111,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDallas Museum of Art — $150,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST INC — $150,000 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL — $105,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — $91,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY — $90,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetLIFELINE FOR FAMILIES INC — $80,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT — $72,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER — $64,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Land Conservancy — $61,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWestcave Outdoor Discovery Center — $58,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $58,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHarpswell Heritage Land Trust — $54,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCenter for Maximum Potential Building Systems Inc — $48,500 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetAustin Jazz Workshop — $48,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH — $48,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $42,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEWA WOMEN UNITED — $41,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Women and Their Work Inc — $41,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS CAVE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $40,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH — $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALLISON ORR DANCE INC — $33,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $33,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OPEN ARTS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $30,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIKH DHARMA EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL — $26,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS WIND SYMPHONY — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST — $17,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION INC — $12,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL — $10,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Early Music Project — $10,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUSA FILM FESTIVAL — $9,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS DISCOVERY GARDENS — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Dallas Museum of Art
  • Who funds CHILDREN FIRST INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS
  • Who funds AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY
  • Who funds LIFELINE FOR FAMILIES INC
  • Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
  • Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER
  • Who funds Texas Land Conservancy
  • Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center
  • Who funds AUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS
  • Who funds Harpswell Heritage Land Trust
  • Who funds Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems Inc
  • Who funds Austin Jazz Workshop
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB
  • Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED
  • Who funds Center for Women and Their Work Inc
  • Who funds TEXAS CAVE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA
  • Who funds SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH
  • Who funds ALLISON ORR DANCE INC
  • Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC
  • Who funds THE OPEN ARTS FOUNDATION

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.

Better Business BureauTX27.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Better Business Bureau · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Powell 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 Philip T Bee Charitable Trust 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    22report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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