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Prism 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.

$45k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,200
Organizations funded a year
9 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$74k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Prism Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$45k0%
FY20239$40k0%
FY202217$77k24%
FY202116$86k31%
FY202023$70k48%
FY201922$92k36%
FY201819$59k47%
FY201725$98kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$241kInternational$171kEducation$84kHealth$19kArts & Culture$17kCivil Rights$6kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
AZ
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hope of the Pokomchi Inc$169,000841%
Lydia Patterson Institute$78,99371%
McKinney Education Foundation$72,75363%
North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc$9,50070%
Clothe a Child Inc$6,04639%
Community Health Clinic$4,8004n/a
At Last$2,50010%
Brooklyn Friends School$2,5001n/a
The North Texas Family Health Foundation$2,50010%
Electronic Arts Intermix Inc$2,00010%
Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($201k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Prism Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHope of the Pokomchi Inc: $169,000 over 8y, 41% of budgetLydia Patterson Institute: $78,993 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMcKinney Education Foundation: $72,753 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetNorth Texas Public Broadcasting Inc: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetClothe a Child Inc: $6,046 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetAt Last: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe North Texas Family Health Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetElectronic Arts Intermix Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Myrna Loy: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMane Gait: $1,445 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetReconciling Ministries Network: $1,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAustin Street Center: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $1,022 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Inn Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWeston Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $480 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Crape Myrtle Trails: $400 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSojourners Inc: $395 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Children's Museum Corporation: $319 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoly Family School: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHugs Cafe Inc: $299 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFaith in Texas - Pico: $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Pantry: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of WRR: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pat Conroy Literary Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreeFolks Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Texas Instruments FoundationTX22.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Drake Bettner Foundation · Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas · Srs Raise the Roof Foundation Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Prism Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Prism Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Prism Foundation

How much does Prism Foundation give?
Prism Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $44,979 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Prism Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (42%), International (30%), Education (15%).
Who are Prism Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hope of the Pokomchi Inc ($169k), Lydia Patterson Institute ($79k), McKinney Education Foundation ($73k).
Does Prism Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Prism 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 Prism Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Instruments Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Drake Bettner Foundation.
Where is Prism Foundation based?
Prism Foundation is based in TX.

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 63 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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