· Public charity
Southwestern Medical Foundation
SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION (the "foundation") was organized in 1939 as a texas non-profit corporation, committed to the development and improvement of medical education, medical research and patient care in the north texas community and throughout the world.
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.
The 61 grants below total $47,313,761 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $48,528,987 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,215,226 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+15 grants · $45M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $17,475,561 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $17,345,872 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $2,127,101 |
| CANCER PREVENTION INITIATIVE INC | $1,595,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $1,380,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $1,000,040 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $677,048 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $572,440 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $537,996 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $500,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $500,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $500,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $300,000 |
| PARKLAND FOUNDATION | $252,500 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $250,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $15k) 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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Southwestern Medical Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k 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
- CPCANCER PREVENTION INITIATIVE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +203% · 95% of their budget
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS3× · 2017–2019 · $1.8M · revenue +106%
- TWTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +197%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLASone grant, 2017 · $673k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- TCTHE CHARTER 100 OF DALLASgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +52%
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.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The BIONORTHTEXAS Foundation (BioNTX) is a Texas Membership Association designed to support company formation and industry growth in the bioscience sector. The organization spans 26 counties in North Texas and is committed to collaboration…
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.
Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of Dallas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Methodist Hospitals of Dallas. 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 46 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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 38 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.
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- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds TEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BioNorthTexas Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXPROTECTS-THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ACADEMY OF MEDICINE ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARTER 100 OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds LAUNCHBIO INC ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ↗
- Who funds Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation ↗
- Who funds Methodist Hospitals of Dallas ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Southwestern Medical 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.