· Private foundation
R4 Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $456k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Breakthrough T1D | $250,000 |
| The University of Georgia Foundation | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $35,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DESMOID TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| One Safe Place | $17,500 |
| LENA POPE | $13,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF FORT WORTH | $10,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $10,000 |
| SINACA STUDIOS | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| TRINITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $461k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
85 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D6× · 2019–2024 · $375k · revenue +26%
- TVTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL3× · 2018–2020 · $250k · revenue +35%
- CFCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES7× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +268%
Funded once
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +89%- BPBluefield Projectone grant, 2018 · $21k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
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.
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
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…
We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…
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.…
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…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
To bring collaborative, systemic change for students in order to improve overall quality of life and to position tarrant county as a leading producer of high-quality talent.
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 of children and youth
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…
How this is measured
90 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. 90 of the 148 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CASA MANANA INC ↗
- Who funds READ FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds THE ART STATION ↗
- Who funds RUTLEDGE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST3YEARS ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CUISINE FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds UnBound North Texas ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SINACA STUDIOS - SCHOOL OF GLASS AND GALLERY ↗
- Who funds North Texas Healthy Communities ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DESMOID TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ACADEMY 4 ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
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 · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · The Morris Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · The Miles Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization R4 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R4 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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