· Private foundation
Richard and Mary Templeton Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $560k
- $250k+7 grants · $30M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION COLLEGE | $9,040,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $8,025,000 |
| JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL | $5,350,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $4,000,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000,000 |
| DIOCESE OF DALLAS | $1,007,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS | $386,497 |
| UNITED WAY | $210,000 |
| URSULINE ACADEMY | $200,000 |
| BISHOP DUNNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| MHSF | $50,000 |
| DALLAS ARBORETUM | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB COLLIN COUNTY | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
Southern Methodist University5× · 2021–2025 · $24M · revenue +18%- TUTHE UNITED WAY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +4%
- MPMY POSSIBILITIES2× · 2022–2023 · $500k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- UCUnion Collegeone grant, 2021 · $5.8M
- TTTEXAS TREES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +36%
- CRCRISTO REY DALLAS COLLEGE PREPone grant, 2022 · $500k
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.
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To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Global Football Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 65 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 49 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
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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds Mane Gait ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH-TECH HIGH HEELS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Ushindi International Fellowship Ch ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
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: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Rosemary Haggar Vaughan Family Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Scanlan Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Richard and Mary Templeton 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.
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.