Texas · Private foundation
Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $547k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $51k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $47k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $41k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $40k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $37k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $37k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Heights United Methodist Church | $74,211 | 6 | n/a |
| The Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels | $26,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Women's Center of Tarrant County Inc | $17,560 | 6 | 0% |
| The Magellan School | $17,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Tarrant Area Food Bank | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Saving Hope Foundation | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Second Chance Farm | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Northside Intercommunity Agency Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kakenya Center for Excellence | $5,278 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Heights United Methodist Church | $74,211 | 6 | n/a |
| The Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels | $26,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Women's Center of Tarrant County Inc | $17,560 | 6 | 0% |
| The Magellan School | $17,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Tarrant Area Food Bank | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Saving Hope Foundation | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Second Chance Farm | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Northside Intercommunity Agency Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kakenya Center for Excellence | $5,278 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc | $4,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Spotlight Cast & Crew | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Center for Transforming Lives | $2,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Fort Worth Report | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Texas Food Bank Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Austin Pets Alive Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Worth Area Habitat for Humanity | $413 | 1 | 0% |
| Caritas of Austin | $104 | 1 | 0% |
| CaringBridge | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Humane Society of North Texas | $50 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · The Morris Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · The Alcon Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax
How this is measured
Compare Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation
- How much does Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation give?
- Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $51,180 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Housing & Shelter (21%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Arlington Heights United Methodist Church ($74k), The Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County ($26k), Meals on Wheels ($26k).
- Does Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Rainwater Charitable Foundation, Garvey Texas Foundation Inc.
- Where is Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation based?
- Pinki and Dennis Meals Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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