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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.

$155k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2025
34
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,800
Organizations funded a year
20 to 34
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$865k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitEducationArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving32$155k34%
FY202434$159k18%
FY202331$162k10%
FY202229$171k0%
FY202130$145k10%
FY202027$137k26%
FY201922$126k23%
FY201820$237k25%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$364kReligion$361kArts & Culture$97kFood & Nutrition$86kPhilanthropy$82kHuman Services$77kAnimals$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$48kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Emily's Place Inc$276,900913%
Samaritan Inn Inc$76,80090%
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department$52,0007n/a
Meals on Wheels Collin County$41,00090%
Christ United Methodist Church$40,8001n/a
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Collin County Inc$24,01090%
Kids Across America$18,00090%
North Texas Food Bank$16,00060%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$13,00090%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$13,00090%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($702k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmily's Place Inc: $276,900 over 9y, 13% of budgetSamaritan Inn Inc: $76,800 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMeals on Wheels Collin County: $41,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Collin County Inc: $24,010 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKids Across America: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Dps Troopers Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSoupmobile Inc: $11,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPerot Museum of Nature & Science: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHutchinson County United Way Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFrank Phillips College Development Corporation: $10,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetPlano Police Association: $9,250 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNorth Dallas Food Pantry: $9,010 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwood Woman's Club Charitable Fund: $5,100 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLouisville Grows Incorporated: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Chefs Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Bar Foundation: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMesquite Police Association Charities Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 26.

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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 Foundation of Texas IncTX23.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable Foundation

How much does Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable Foundation give?
Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $154,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (26%), Religion (25%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Emily's Place Inc ($277k), Samaritan Inn Inc ($77k), Texas Parks & Wildlife Department ($52k).
Does Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable 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 Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation, Coserv Charitable Foundation.
Where is Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable Foundation based?
Roy and Judy Gurley Charitable 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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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