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Robert C Elder Jr Family 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.

$152k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2021
67%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$76,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 11
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 67% of the organizations Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$152k73%
FY20219$82k67%
FY202011$83kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$62kReligion$54kEducation$47kHuman Services$36kYouth Development$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ut Southwestern Health Systems$25,00011%
Austin College$15,00030%
Ursuline Academy of Dallas Foundation Inc$12,0001n/a
Grace Bible Church$10,0001n/a
Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc$6,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00010%
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas$5,00010%
Triune Mercy Center$5,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$5,00010%
North Texas Food Bank$5,00010%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($224k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUt Southwestern Health Systems: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAustin College: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Dallas Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association of Texas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTriune Mercy Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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Find your warmest path to Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation

How much does Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation give?
Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $152,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (20%), Religion (17%), Education (15%).
Who are Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ut Southwestern Health Systems ($25k), Austin College ($15k), Ursuline Academy of Dallas Foundation Inc ($12k).
Does Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation based?
Robert C Elder Jr Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 25 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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