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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$74k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LYDIA PATTERSON INSTITUTE$25,200
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$11,392
HOPE OF THE POKOMCHI$5,887
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,500
KERA$500
SPLC$300
MANEGAIT$200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MANE GATE: $400 → 5%MANEGAIT: $395 → 5%MANEGAIT: $250 → 5%MAINGAIT: $200 → 5%MANEGAIT: $200 → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS: $494 → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS: $336 → 5%COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $200 → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS: $96 → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS: $96 → 5%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

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$525k · 20 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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42

Total granted

$525k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+18%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HO
    HOPE OF THE POKOMCHI INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $169k · revenue +5% · 41% of their budget
  • ME
    MCKINNEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $73k · revenue +130%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +249%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • AL
    AT LASTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +54%
  • BF
    BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
2
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Glasstire

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

Arts & Culture
5
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
6
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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7
The Museum of North Texas History

To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.

Arts & Culture
8
San Antonio Museum of Art

The San Antonio Museum of Art brings people together with art by collecting, preserving, and presenting significant works of art representing a broad range of history and cultures, advancing human connection and understanding, and…

Arts & Culture
9
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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10
State Fair of Texas

The state fair of texas celebrates all things texan by promoting agriculture, education, and community involvement through quality entertainment in a family-friendly environment. the state fair of texas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit…

Recreation & Sports
11
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
12
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art; the most unlike its peers is Orant Charities. 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

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 63 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE OF THE POKOMCHI INC: $169,000 · OtherHOPE OF THE POKOMCHI INCFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $159,732 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · Other+43 more: $46,644 · Other+43 moreLydia Patterson Institute: $78,993 · EducationLydia Patterson InstituteMCKINNEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $72,753 · EducationMCKINNEY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MYRNA LOY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,650 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $1,233 · Arts & CultureMane Gait: $1,445 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS: $1,022 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $200 · Human ServicesAT LAST: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NORTH TEXAS FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyRECONCILING MINISTRIES NETWORK: $1,350 · Civil Rights
Other$391,376Education$151,746Arts & Culture$16,383Human Services$2,667Youth Development$2,500Philanthropy$2,500Civil Rights$1,350

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 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $175 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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 HOPE OF THE POKOMCHI INC ↗
  • Who funds Lydia Patterson Institute ↗
  • Who funds MCKINNEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds CLOTHE A CHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds AT LAST ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH TEXAS FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE MYRNA LOY ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Mane Gait ↗
  • Who funds RECONCILING MINISTRIES NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN INN INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds THE CRAPE MYRTLE TRAILS ↗
  • Who funds Sojourners Inc ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Holy Family 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.

Texas Instruments Fou…Communities Foundatio…The Drake Bettner Fou…Baylor Scott & White …Srs Raise the Roof Fo…Texas Women's Foundat…Meadows Foundation IncThe Dallas FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Enterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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, 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home