· Public charity
Santa's Elves
To provide assistance to individuals who have fallen on hard times in the magnolia area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $100,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $169,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $68,800 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $17,500 |
| SOTERIA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS DBA RESCUE AMERICA | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| SONS OF THE FLAG | $10,000 |
| THE CARING FOUNDATION OF TEXAS | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST | $10,000 |
| CYPRESS FAIRBANKS LACROSSE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| DTCARE | $7,000 |
| ICAN POSITIVE PROGRAM FOR YOUTH | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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 +29% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- SISOTERIA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS3× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +66%
- BBBEVP Birds Eye View Project2× · 2018–2019 · $25k · revenue ×14
- CFCaring for Children Foundation of Texas Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- CCCLUTCH CITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +46%
- EMEast-West Ministries Internationalone grant, 2019 · $11k
- AAAdult and Teen Challenge of Texasgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +27%
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 champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
To provide comfort & companionship to veterans by rescuing shelter dogs that have been carefully evaluated, selected and professionally trained for the purpose of providing emotional support & companionship.
Young Texans Against Cancer is a network of motivated young professionals collectively working together to raise awareness and funds to support the local Dallas cancer community. The Dallas chapter was established in 2007, as part of a…
Wheelchairs for warriors designs, builds, and delivers custom-fit, complex-rehab mobility solutions to veterans and first responders injured in the line of duty
Tadsaw inc mission statement is to provide for the training of a medical alert service dog team (one veteran/client and one rescue/shelter/personal dog equals one team) to improve the veteran/client's quality of life and, in many cases,…
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…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
Paws for Purple Hearts improves the lives of America's Warriors facing mobility challenges and trauma-related conditions such as PTSD and TBI by providing the highest quality assistance dogs and canine-assisted therapeutic programs; and by…
Soldiers' angels provides aid, comfort, and resources to the military, veterans, and their families.
The mission of the Hope For The Warriors is to enhance the quality of life for United States Service Members and their families who have been adversely affected by injuries or death in the line of duty. See Schedule O for continuation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Special Forces Charitable Trust and the most unlike its peers is Bevp Birds Eye View Project. 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 23 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 — 7% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 30 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOTERIA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds BEVP Birds Eye View Project ↗
- Who funds Caring for Children Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds Animum Irae Militum ↗
- Who funds Beyond The Burn Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOYRIDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JORDANS GUARDIAN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds CLUTCH CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS FAIRBANKS LACROSSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Adult and Teen Challenge of Texas ↗
- Who funds Society of Samaritans Inc ↗
- Who funds ABANDONED ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Running 4 Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sheep Dog Impact Assistance ↗
- Who funds DTCare ↗
- Who funds 76 LACROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds ICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds Magnolia Lacrosse Association ↗
- Who funds Operation Military Embrace Inc ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Santa's Elves 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.