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Rainwater Charitable 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k98 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k149 grants · $19M
- $250k+26 grants · $22M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TARRANT TO & THROUGH (T3) | $3,316,667 |
| LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL | $3,000,000 |
| FORT WORTH COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $2,000,000 |
| CITYSQUARE | $2,000,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,866,160 |
| NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,612,215 |
| TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $888,800 |
| RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $857,214 |
| TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION FOR ADULTS INC | $600,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND | $500,000 |
| CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND | $500,000 |
| CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK | $475,000 |
| FORT WORTH ISD | $450,000 |
| THE MENTORING ALLIANCE | $400,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $22.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Rainwater Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
240 repeat relationships — 154 still active in FY2024, 86 since wound down; 50 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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
- CACORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC4× · 2020–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +12% · 26% of their budget
- TWTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +35%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3.5M
- JSJOAN & SANFORD I WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $2.3M
- SRSCRIPPS RESEARCH - IN KIND GRANT CHARLES RIVER LABSone grant, 2020 · $2.0M
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.
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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 Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
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…
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tank Ltd. 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
334 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. 334 of the 512 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation ↗
- Who funds REGENERATIVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds MHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE2RWANDA INC ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Morris Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · United Way of Tarrant County · The Miles Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · R4 Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation
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 Rainwater Charitable 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.
- The Maranyundo Initiative Inc — 85% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Bridges from School to Work Inc — 33% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Social Finance Inc — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.
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