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Robert and Marianne Gwinn Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert and Marianne Gwinn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$145kCrime & Legal$37kRecreation & Sports$22kHuman Services$19kArts & Culture$14kPublic Benefit$7kHealth$5kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,825
Median grant
3
States reached
$581k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
STATE FAIR OF TEXAS$8,500
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$6,600
DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION$2,825
HOUSE OF HEROES CHATTACHOOCHEE VAL$2,000
YMCA MOODY FAMILY$1,000
ITHACA COLLEGE$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 9%LEARNING ALLY: $1k → 11%DALLAS CHALLENGE: $1k → 14%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

WI
MI
NY
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DC
OK
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Robert and Marianne Gwinn Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 79%.

Robert and Marianne Gwinn Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$228k · 17 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
20

Total granted

$228k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+71%

Still filing today

53%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
EducationHealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCrime & 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

  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +623%
  • Southern Methodist University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +26%
  • SF
    STATE FAIR OF TEXAS
    6× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • EA
    EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • SM
    SMU MUSTANG CLUB
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
3
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Howard Payne University

Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.

Education
6
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
9
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
10
Furman University

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.

Education
11
Dallas Baptist University

The purpose of dallas baptist university is to provide christ-centered quality higher education in the arts, sciences, and professional studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to traditional age and adult students in order to…

Education
12
Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is State Fair of Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSouthern Methodist University: $50,800 · EducationSouthern Methodist University+3 more: $4,000 · EducationHIGLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $17,500 · OtherHIGLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATIONDallas Bar Association: $15,750 · OtherDallas Bar AssociationLA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC: $13,500 · OtherLA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INCMAD FOR PLAID HIGHLAND PARK ED FDTN: $12,500 · OtherMAD FOR PLAID HIGHLAND PARK ED FDTNOUR FRIENDS PLACE: $8,500 · OtherOUR FRIENDS PLACEYMCA MOODY FAMILY: $5,000 · Other+19 more: $30,250 · Other+19 moreSTATE FAIR OF TEXAS: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsDALLAS BAR FOUNDATION: $14,825 · Crime & LegalTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $500 · Public BenefitTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $2,000 · HealthTHE HALE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthBIND- Brain Injury Network of Dallas: $1,000 · HealthLearning Ally Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH 180 INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPROMISE HOUSE INC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$109,800Other$103,000Recreation & Sports$18,000Crime & Legal$14,825Public Benefit$5,000Health$4,500Human Services$2,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $50,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE FAIR OF TEXAS: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Bar Association: $15,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS BAR FOUNDATION: $14,825 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC: $13,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOUR FRIENDS PLACE: $8,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Heroes Chattahoochee: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HALE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH 180 INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $500 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 HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds STATE FAIR OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Bar Association ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR FRIENDS PLACE ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds House of Heroes Chattahoochee ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE HALE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIND- Brain Injury Network of Dallas ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH 180 INC ↗
  • Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Robert and Marianne Gwinn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Marianne Gwinn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 41 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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