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Smith Dumont Bourland Family Foundation at a glance

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Smith Dumont Bourland Family 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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Religion$12kArts & Culture$8kHealth$7kInternational$4kCrime & Legal$4kEducation$2kHuman Services$1kYouth Development$302
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$211k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THRIVE WOMENS CLINIC$3,500
SIGNS OF LOVE$3,500
NORTH TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS$3,000
EXODUS MINISTRIES$2,901
KIDS ACROSS AMERICA$2,000
KANAKUK MINISTRIES$2,000
BROOKWOOD$1,000
MISSIONS DOOR$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION$1,000
GRACE BASED FAMILIES$500
WORLD NEWS GROUP$500
TREE OF LIFE USA$250
INTERFAITH$250
THE BIRTHDAY PROJECT$249
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISSIONS DOOR: $1k → 11%SIGNS OF LOVE: $4k → 14%NORTH TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 5%EXODUS MINISTRIES: $3k → 14%BROOKWOOD: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%WATER MISSION: $104 → 12%KIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $2k → 14%TREE OF LIFE USA: $250 → 9%FAMILY MATTERS: $500 → 11%SIGNS OF LOVE: $3k → 14%NORTH TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 5%THE BIRTHDAY PROJECT: $249 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%KANAKUK MINISTRIES: $2k → 14%GRACE BASED FAMILIES: $500 → 11%NORTH TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS: $2k → 5%EXODUS MINISTRIES: $1k → 14%KANAKUK MINISTRIES: $2k → 14%THE BIRTHDAY PROJECT: $53 → 14%KIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $2k → 14%THRIVE WOMENS CLINIC: $4k → 14%THRIVE WOMENS CLINIC: $3k → 14%THRIVE WOMENS CLINIC: $500 → 14%INTERFAITH: $250 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
CA
MO
AZ
NC
SC
OK
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Smith Dumont Bourland Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 53% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 100%.

Smith Dumont Bourland Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36k · 9 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$36k
$104

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+2%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • NT
    North Texas Performing Arts
    3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +6%
  • DL
    DALLAS LIFE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +17%
  • Kanakuk Ministries
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • WM
    WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $104 · revenue +2%
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
Word of Life Fellowship Inc

The purpose of Word of Life Fellowship is evangelization and discipleship through various means consistent with the Holy Scriptures to help build and strengthen the Church of Jesus Christ. Ministries include camps and conferences, youth…

Religion
2
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
3
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
4
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.

Religion
5
Living Proof Ministries

Living Proof Ministries' primary exempt purpose is to disseminate religious teachings through public speaking engagements, seminars, Bible classes, radio and television programs, and distribution of audio, videotapes, and written material.

Religion
6
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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7
Jubilee World Missions Inc

Conduct Christian leadership training and discipleship seminars predominately in the Caribbean, South Asia, Central America and Central Texas, USA.

Religion
8
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
9
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
10
A Jesus Mission

A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.

Religion
11
Precept

Engaging people in relationship with God through knowing His Word

Religion
12
Robby Dawkins Ministry

Spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; the most unlike its peers is Signs of Love. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Signs of Love: $6,000 · ReligionSigns of LoveKanakuk Ministries: $4,000 · ReligionKanakuk MinistriesKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $3,500 · ReligionKIDS ACROSS AMERICAGod's World Publications Inc: $500 · ReligionDALLAS LIFE INC: $7,000 · OtherDALLAS LIFE INCMISSIONS DOOR: $1,000 · OtherMISSIONS DOORBROOKWOOD: $1,000 · OtherBROOKWOODFAMILY MATTERS INC: $1,000 · OtherFAMILY MATTERS INC+2 more: $552 · OtherNorth Texas Performing Arts: $8,000 · Arts & CultureNorth Texas Performing …EXODUS MINISTRIES: $4,301 · Crime & LegalEXODUS MINIS…UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationTREE OF LIFE USA INC: $250 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $104 · International
Religion$14,000Other$10,552Arts & Culture$8,000Crime & Legal$4,301Education$2,000International$354

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Texas Performing Arts: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSigns of Love: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES: $4,301 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY MATTERS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGod's World Publications Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREE OF LIFE USA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $104 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Communities Foundatio…Denman Family Foundat…The Dallas FoundationChristian Community F…Texas Instruments Fou…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Denman Family Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Smith Dumont Bourland Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith Dumont Bourland Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 15 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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