· Private foundation
Robert H Dedman 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| SEAL LEGACY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SMU (VISION 2025) | $50,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| N STAR EVENTS | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY18–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +36% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHOCKADAY SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $475k · revenue +44%
- PKPi Kappa Alpha Foundation3× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +295%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- GWGEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $30k
- TUTHE UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
See Disclosure Above.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
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…
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.
Support men's and women's intercollegiate golf programs at SMU
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds N-Star Events Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Practice Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Houses of Texas 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert H Dedman Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert H Dedman Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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