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Slingshot Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Slingshot Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$52kHealth$15kYouth Development$11kHuman Services$5kReligion$4k
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE$10,000
GIRLS INC$5,500
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL$4,200
WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL$2,500
MI ESCUELITA$2,470
WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER$2,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEART HOUSE: $2k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60k · 5 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$60k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+49%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’22
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • B
    BookSpring
    3× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +211%
  • MI
    Momentous Institute
    2× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +31%
  • WD
    WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • LE
    LUMIN EDUCATION
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -28%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLASgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +49%
  • C
    CHILDCAREGROUPgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +69%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dallas Cooperative Preschool

Education

Education
2
Denton City-County Day School

Denton City County Day School provides quality, affordable childcareto families in Denton County. Our mission is to provide qualitypre-kindergarten education and loving care to children ages 2 through 5 years. Our vision is that all DCCDS…

Human Services
3
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
4
Discovery School of San Antonio

At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…

Education
5
German International School of Dallas Inc

To operate a preschool and elementary school for children 18 months to 9 years.

Education
6
The Cambridge School of Dallas

The Cambridge School of Dallas was formed in 2001 and is a college preparatory, non-denominational christian school established for the purpose of providing academic excellence in a christ-centered environment.

Education
7
White Rock Montessori Elementary School of the Good Samaritan Inc

The organization's mission is to operate an elementary school and daycare program for children of working parents. Following the principles of Dr. Maria Montessori, the school provides a consistent framework for learning through the…

Education
8
The Greatest School in West Houston

Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from

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9
Trinity School of Midland Texas

The mission of trinity school is to be a college preparatory community that provides a nurturing environment to enrich the mind, strengthen the body, enliven the soul, and inspire servant leadership.

Education
10
Grace Academy of Dallas

Private education. Providing service to students in preschool through sixth grade.

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11
FIRST3YEARS

First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…

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12
Lifeschool of Dallas

To provide an exemplary learning center for students in grades kindergarten through twelve. while maintaining high academic standards, teachers are encouraged to be innovative.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Momentous Institute; the most unlike its peers is Trinity River Mission Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY RIVER MISSION INC: $10,000 · OtherTRINITY RIVER MISSION INCMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC: $7,470 · OtherMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INCGIRLS INC: $5,500 · OtherGIRLS INCGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $5,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLASOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL: $4,200 · OtherOUR LADY OF PERPETUALCHILDCAREGROUP: $2,500 · OtherCHILDCAREGROUPBookSpring: $17,500 · EducationBookSpringWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOLLUMIN EDUCATION: $6,000 · EducationLUMIN EDUCATIONMomentous Institute: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous InstituteWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,200 · Human ServicesHEART HOUSE: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$34,670Education$33,500Youth Development$15,000Human Services$3,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBookSpring: $17,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMomentous Institute: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY RIVER MISSION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC: $7,470 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDCAREGROUP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART HOUSE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

United Way of Metropo…The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Rees-Jones Founda…Texas Women's Foundat…Katherine C Carmody C…The Addy FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Capital for KidsGil and Dody Weaver F…Hillcrest Foundation
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas IncTX21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · The Addy Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Capital for Kids · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Slingshot Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Slingshot Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Slingshot Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Slingshot Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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