· Private foundation
Rowling 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $520k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+7 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,850,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| HIGHLANDS COLLEGE | $833,333 |
| IF GATHERING | $270,000 |
| EAST WEST MINISTRIES | $250,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $250,000 |
| PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $230,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $200,000 |
| ACT - ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY | $150,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE | $125,000 |
| MERCY STREET | $125,000 |
| HOPE FARM INC | $125,000 |
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $110,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Rowling Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 23 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2020–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +62%
- BEBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +55%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CRCONSUMERS' RESEARCH INCone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +17%
- OHOMNI HOTELS CHARITABone grant, 2021 · $100k
- MAMISSIONSME & ANGEL HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 136 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds OMNI HOTELS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds CONSUMERS' RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MERCY STREET ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds Fellowship of Israel Related Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds IF GATHERING ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Servant Foundation · The David B Miller Family Foundation · Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Lawrence B Dale Family Foundation
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 Rowling 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.