· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB COLLIN COUNTY | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 11 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Southern Methodist University5× · 2021–2025 · $25M · revenue +18%- TUTHE UNITED WAY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +4%
- MPMY POSSIBILITIES2× · 2022–2023 · $500k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TTTEXAS TREES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +36%
- MGMane Gaitone grant, 2024 · $112k · revenue 0%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +12%
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.
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As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
Trec's mission is to cultivate relationships in the commercial real estate industry to catalyze community investment, influence policy, propel careers and develop the leaders of tomorrow.we believe relationships are the lifeblood of career…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 44 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds Ushindi International Fellowship Ch ↗
- Who funds TACA 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard and Mary Templeton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Mary Templeton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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