· Private foundation
Pinon 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 $10k17 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $604k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEARTS FOR HEARING FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA DALLAS-FORT WORTH | $30,000 |
| TEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION DISTRICT 6 | $30,000 |
| INFANT CRISIS SERVICES | $30,000 |
| SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| YOUNG WOMENS PREPARATORY NETWORK | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| PEROT MUSEUM FO NATURE AND SCIENCE | $25,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR LIFE | $25,000 |
| BUCKNER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FIRST RESPONSE MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $20,777 |
| COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| THE CARE CENTER | $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 (FY19–24, $617k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +13% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 16 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +44%
INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC5× · 2019–2024 · $198k · revenue +83%
SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC3× · 2019–2024 · $96k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $56k · revenue +351%
- FCFRONTIER CASAone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +38%
- CFCHILDREN & FAMILY INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -12%
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.
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
To provide services to children, youth, and families along with a child-placing agency. to provide therapeutic foster care.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 140 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 CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds First Response Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER CASA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & FAMILY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds POETIC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds PIVOT INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE ↗
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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Dallas Stars Foundation Inc · The Addy Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Elizabeth Toon Charities
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 Pinon 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.
- Sunbeam Family Services Inc — 52% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
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.