· Private foundation
Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KCU | $20,000 |
| ATSU | $20,000 |
| UNTHSC | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| HIDDEN ACRES | $12,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN OF GARLAND | $7,500 |
| TEXAS RAMP PROJECT | $7,500 |
| MAGDALEN HOUSE | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,110 |
| BOY SCOUTS TROOP CIRCLE 10 | $6,000 |
| NEXUS RECOVERY | $5,000 |
| FERGUSON ROAD INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| EQUEST | $5,000 |
| GOD IS GOOD MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- TRTEXAS RAMP PROJECT6× · 2019–2024 · $39k · revenue +144%
- NRNexus Recovery Center Incorporated7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +56%
- GSGOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND INC7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +233%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
To put Christian principles into practice through programs, services, and relationships that build healthy mind, body and spirit for all.
Craig Hospital is a 93-bed, long-term acute care and rehabilitation hospital that provides care exclusively for patients with spinal cord and brain injury. The Hospital provides a comprehensive system of inpatient and outpatient medical…
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
To provide physician services to support the charitable functions and tax exempt purpose of Methodist Hospitals of Dallas (D/B/A Methodist Health System).
Our mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We support the health and well-being of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment in the…
To provide support, tools and resources necessary to improve patient safety and quality of care and accelerate improvement in health care through collaboration, education, innovation and research.
Conduct medical research, offer educational programs and undertake development projects that contribute to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
The texas hospital association's mission is to provide leadership in advocacy, information and education to enable texas hospitals to deliver superior, cost effective care which enhances the health care of individuals and their communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
To provide no charge primary care to the low-income and uninsured residents of Anderson, Morgan, and Roane counties of Tennessee and any partnership related to our medical programs.
Devoted to expert care, education, outreach and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Metropolitan Dallas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritans of Garland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 115 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 TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND INC ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
- Who funds THE MAGDALEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City University ↗
- Who funds RIVER OF LIFE HOMES ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FERGUSON ROAD INITIATIVE ↗
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.
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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 Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic 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.
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