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Sulentic Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$526k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Community Improvement$1.2MEducation$662kReligion$465kHuman Services$365kArts & Culture$285kAnimals$260kHealth$227kRecreation & Sports$83kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH$105,514
DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY$60,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$60,000
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$60,000
DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$25,000
BAYLOR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION$25,000
CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC$25,000
HEROES AND HORSES INC$20,000
EO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION$20,000
KHAN ACADEMY INC$20,000
COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
TREC COMMUNITY INVESTORS$10,000
IN THE CITY FOR GOOD$10,000
HOLY INNOCENTS CHILDRENS MALARIA HOSPITAL UGANDA I$10,000
ST ALBERT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $100k → 10%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $20k → 10%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $1k → 16%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $10k → 10%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $10k → 10%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $10k → 10%HEROES AND HORSES INC: $10k → 10%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $3k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $3k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $2k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $1k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $662 → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $326 → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $100k → 14%IN THE CITY FOR GOOD: $10k → 14%IN THE CITY FOR GOOD: $5k → 14%IN THE CITY FOR GOOD: $4k → 14%IN THE CITY FOR GOOD: $2k → 14%IN THE CITY FOR GOOD: $2k → 14%IN THE CITY FOR GOOD: $2k → 14%IN THE CITY FOR GOOD: $1k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $331 → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $2k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $1k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $993 → 14%4WORD: $10k → 14%4WORD: $5k → 14%TREC COMMUNITY INVESTORS: $10k → 14%4WORD: $5k → 14%4WORD: $5k → 14%4WORD: $5k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $653 → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $653 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 34 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
20

Total granted

$3.5M
$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+29%

Still filing today

82%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • DW
    DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue +27%
  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +70%
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • BE
    BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -5%
  • CT
    Circuit Trail Conservancy
    one grant, 2020 · $83k · revenue -9%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +6%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
4
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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5
Dallas College Foundation Inc

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.

Education
6
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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7
The Real Estate Council Inc

Trec's mission is to cultivate relationships in the commercial real estate industry to catalyze community investment, influence policy, propel careers and develop the leaders of tomorrow.we believe relationships are the lifeblood of career…

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8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
10
Dallas Jewish Community Foundation

To be your partner and trusted expert in charitable giving and effective philanthropy by empowering our community's charitable vision, safeguarding our community's resources and building enduring legacies.

Philanthropy
11
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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12
Cook Children's Physician Network

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cbre Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Military Veterans SupportYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesSchool District FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Equine Therapy ProgramsSenior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%55%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,512

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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
32/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CBRE FOUNDATION INC — $1,153,000 · OtherCBRE FOUNDATION INCCORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — $448,248 · OtherCORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCHHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL — $300,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL+20 more — $271,566 · Other+20 moreCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $260,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS …HEROES AND HORSES INC — $160,000 · Human ServicesHEROES AND HORSES …BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR …4WORD — $30,000 · Human ServicesIN THE CITY FOR GOOD — $26,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $25,000 · Human Services+4 more — $26,863 · Human ServicesIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $210,000 · EducationIOWA STAT…KHAN ACADEMY INC — $60,000 · EducationKHAN ACAD…HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationOUT TEACH — $13,000 · Education+5 more — $29,500 · Education+5 moreDALLAS WIND SYMPHONY — $285,000 · Arts & CultureBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $125,000 · HealthHoly Innocents Childrens Hospital Uganda Inc — $50,000 · HealthLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $12,000 · Health+6 more — $13,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Community Empowerment — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyCircuit Trail Conservancy — $83,333 · Community ImprovementFERGUSON ROAD INITIATIVE — $12,498 · Community Improvement
Other$2,172,814Human Services$627,863Education$327,500Arts & Culture$285,000Health$275,000Philanthropy$97,500Community Improvement$95,831

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCBRE FOUNDATION INC — $1,153,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetDALLAS WIND SYMPHONY — $285,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES AND HORSES INC — $160,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCircuit Trail Conservancy — $83,333 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC — $63,277 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHoly Innocents Childrens Hospital Uganda Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budget4WORD — $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetIN THE CITY FOR GOOD — $26,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetFoundation for Community Empowerment — $25,000 over 5y, 36% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY OUTREACH OF NORTH TEXAS — $22,119 over 4y, 21% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetOUT TEACH — $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFERGUSON ROAD INITIATIVE — $12,498 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $10,857 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTREC COMMUNITY INVESTORS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $5,006 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUSHING FOR PINK — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $4,372 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR FRIENDS PLACE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF DALLAS INC — $3,856 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHEF SHOWCASE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW CASSEL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER CHICAGO — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMBX FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Texas Instruments Fou…Hoblitzelle FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…The Addy FoundationThe Moody FoundationKatherine C Carmody C…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Rees-Jones Founda…
The Dallas FoundationTX42.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones 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 Sulentic Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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