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Stanford C and Mary Clare Finney Foundation at a glance

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Stanford C and Mary Clare Finney 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.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$325kHuman Services$138kHealth$105kEducation$56kInternational$8kReligion$6kPhilanthropy$5kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Crystal Charity Ball$20,665
The Woodlands Christian Academy$10,000
Southern Methodist University$7,000
Blood Cancer United$5,000
Preston Hollow Presbyterian School$5,000
CARE$2,500
Baylor Health Care System Foundatio$1,000
St Jude Childrens Hospital$1,000
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 (FY21–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Forefront Living Foundation: $5k → 14%Men of Nehemiah: $3k → 14%Men of Nehemiah: $2k → 14%Interfaith Family Services: $5k → 14%Community Partners of Dallas: $3k → 14%The Family Place: $5k → 14%The Family Place: $3k → 14%Hope Supply Co: $500 → 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$504k · 10 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
28

Total granted

$504k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+14%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +32%
  • TW
    The Woodlands Christian Academy
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +9%
  • BH
    Baylor Health Care System Foundation
    2× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • WA
    Women's Auxiliary to Children's Med
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • UP
    University Park Elementary School
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • BS
    Baylor Scott White Dallas Foundatio
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
2
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
3
Trinity Charter School

The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…

Education
4
Safe City Commission

Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.

Crime & Legal
5
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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6
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Texas Children's Health Plan

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
8
Southwestern Health Resources Hospitals Joc

To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.

Health
9
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
10
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
11
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
12
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Place; the most unlike its peers is Junior Charity League 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 42 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Salvation Army: $325,000 · OtherSalvation ArmyWomen's Auxiliary to Children's Med: $30,000 · OtherWomen's Auxiliary to Children's Med+24 more: $122,750 · Other+24 moreTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $109,700 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY…The Family Place: $8,000 · Human ServicesFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesSouthern Methodist University: $7,000 · EducationPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $11,000 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthABILITY CONNECTION TEXAS: $500 · HealthLEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $1,000 · Religion
Other$477,750Philanthropy$109,700Human Services$25,000Education$18,500Health$12,000International$5,000Religion$1,000

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 budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $109,700 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Woodlands Christian Academy: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Charity League of Dallas: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Christian Growth Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY CONNECTION TEXAS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO: $500 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…The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Texas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationRaymond James Charita…Dallas Alumnae Associ…The Aileen and Jack P…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Rees-Jones Founda…United Way of Metropo…National Philanthropi…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX23.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Dallas Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation Inc · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Stanford C and Mary Clare Finney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stanford C and Mary Clare Finney 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 Stanford C and Mary Clare Finney Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Stanford C and Mary Clare Finney 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 42 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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