· Private foundation
Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of ROY AND JUDY GURLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $40,800 |
| DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANNICAL SOCIETY | $14,500 |
| PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| THE SAMARITAN INN | $10,000 |
| VETERANS OUTPOST | $10,000 |
| EMILY'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| NORTHWOOD WOMEN'S CLUB CHARITABLE FUND | $5,100 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF NORTH TEXAS | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY | $5,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| THE UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS | $3,000 |
| TEXAS DPS TROOPERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CASA OF COLLIN COUNTY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| UTSW MEDICAL CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +85% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 11 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- EPEMILY'S PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $277k · revenue +95%
- SISAMARITAN INN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +89%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- PDPALO DURO CANYON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k
- PIPARTNERS IN PALO DURO CANYONone grant, 2017 · $20k
- HCHUTCHINSON COUNTY UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +23%
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.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
The mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…
The support and management of any charitable, education or literary undertakings and in furtherance of any such undertakings, to receive and maintain a fund of funds of real or personal property, or both. the corporation will not conduct…
The goal of our organization is to help alleviate the problem of homelessness among our veterans and their families by assisting with transitional and permanent housing.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Provide financial assistance to police officers and their familes serving Fort Worth and bordering cities when the officer has been seriously injured or killed in the line of duty.
Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.
To enhance community relations with austin police officers and the local community by supporting local charitable agencies. in addition, to support austin police officers and their families in times of need.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
The north texas pantry has been serving the people of north texas since 1979, as an outreach of floral heights united methodist church. in 2015, the pantry formed as a separate 501 (c) 3, the floral heights community food pantry. to better…
The texas department of public safety foundation is a community-focused nonprofit organization that develops innovative projects to support dps officers and employees through community connections, educational advancement, service…
Minnies Food Pantry is a 501c3 non-profit organization with a mission to provide healthy meals, educational resources and red-carpet treatment to every person that we serve. Minnies Food Pantry understands that hunger does not discriminate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Inc. 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 35 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) — 0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 60 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 EMILY'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INN INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUPMOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DPS TROOPERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUTCHINSON COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OUTPOST ↗
- Who funds FRANK PHILLIPS COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANO POLICE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds North Dallas Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds ROGERS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD WOMAN'S CLUB CHARITABLE FUND ↗
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 · Texas Instruments Foundation · Coserv Charitable Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · North Texas Food Bank · Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · United Way Worldwide · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax
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 Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.