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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.

$680k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.5MHuman Services$523kHealth$192kYouth Development$139kReligion$116kInternational$65kHousing & Shelter$63kCrime & Legal$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $604k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEARTS FOR HEARING FOUNDATION$40,000
INFANT CRISIS SERVICES$30,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA DALLAS-FORT WORTH$30,000
TEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION DISTRICT 6$30,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION$25,000
BUCKNER FOUNDATION$25,000
PEROT MUSEUM FO NATURE AND SCIENCE$25,000
COUNCIL FOR LIFE$25,000
FIRST RESPONSE MINISTRY$25,000
YOUNG WOMENS PREPARATORY NETWORK$25,000
SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY$20,777
COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS$20,000
TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CARE CENTER: $20k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC: $46k → 16%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 11%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 16%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING FOUNDATION: $40k → 16%HEARTS FOR HEARING FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $3k → 14%HEARTS FOR HEARING: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $3k → 14%CHILDREN AND FAMILY INSTITURE: $25k → 14%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $70k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $58k → 16%TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $30k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $25k → 16%INFANT CRISIS SERVICES: $15k → 16%PIVOT: $10k → 16%PIVOT: $10k → 16%CITYSQUARE: $5k → 14%CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $5k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $5k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $25k → 14%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $11k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOUNDATION FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $4k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $5k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOUNDATION FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $4k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $5k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $5k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $5k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
UT
WV
VA
AZ
TN
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 64 repeat orgs$564k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
58

Total granted

$3.4M
$369k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+13%

Still filing today

48%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +113%
  • INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $198k · revenue +83%
  • SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $96k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $56k · revenue +351%
  • FC
    FRONTIER CASA
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +38%
  • CF
    CHILDREN & FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -12%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dallas International University

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

Education
2
Trinity Charter School

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…

Education
3
Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health
4
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
5
Communities in Schools of Central Texas

Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.

Education
6
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

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.

Health
7
FIRST3YEARS

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…

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8
Cook Children's Health Plan

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.

Health
9
Cook Children's Medical Center

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.

Health
10
The Bair Foundation of Texas

To provide services to children, youth, and families along with a child-placing agency. to provide therapeutic foster care.

Human Services
11
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
49/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $1,450,000 · OtherCHI OMEGA FOUNDATIONTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $116,577 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PERMIAN BASIN: $101,751 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO: $100,589 · Other+89 more: $1,066,867 · Other+89 moreINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $197,500 · Human ServicesINFANT CRISIS SERV…SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC: $96,350 · Human ServicesSUNBEAM FAMILY SER…Hearts for Hearing Foundation: $65,000 · Human ServicesHearts for Hearing…COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $41,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR LIFEBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN & FAMILY INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human Services+12 more: $157,000 · Human Services+12 moreTHE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $65,000 · EducationYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $50,000 · EducationKIPP Texas Inc: $25,000 · EducationCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationBEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $12,500 · EducationBETHANY COLLEGE: $10,120 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $10,000 · Education+10 more: $38,257 · EducationCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $56,000 · HealthOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $20,000 · HealthAUTISM FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $15,000 · HealthDRUG PREVENTION RESOURCES INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthFirst Response Ministry Inc: $75,000 · ReligionPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureArtist Outreach Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC: $25,005 · EnvironmentTHE GENESIS PROJECT: $5,000 · Environment
Other$2,835,784Human Services$636,850Education$245,877Health$103,000Religion$75,000Arts & Culture$40,000Environment$30,005

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $1,450,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC: $197,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES INC: $96,350 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFirst Response Ministry Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetHearts for Hearing Foundation: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $65,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $41,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFRONTIER CASA: $30,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC: $25,005 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $25,005 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN & FAMILY INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPIVOT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPOETIC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCare Center-Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Inc DBA The CARE Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVETERAN OUTDOORS INC: $17,804 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetArtist Outreach Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION: $13,620 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WARREN CENTER INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $10,711 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE: $10,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDRUG PREVENTION RESOURCES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $7,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew York University: $6,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds FRONTIER CASA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN & FAMILY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
  • Who funds PIVOT INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Moody FoundationDallas Stars Foundati…The Addy FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Texas Women's Foundat…Elizabeth Toon Charit…
The Dallas FoundationTX35.2× affinity17 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 · 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pinon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pinon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 140 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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