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Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$60k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,450
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$127k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$60k33%
FY20249$24k22%
FY202312$18k33%
FY20228$42k50%
FY20218$16k38%
FY20208$44k13%
FY201912$24k42%
FY201813$17k46%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$122kHealth$89kReligion$21kArts & Culture$17kEnvironment$6kPhilanthropy$4kEducation$2kFood & Nutrition$740Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Crystal Charity Ball: $112,600 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $39,495 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Medical Center Foundation: $35,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWinnsboro Center for the Arts: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSenior Citizens of Greater Dallas Inc: $4,520 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHighland Park Isd Education Foundation: $1,675 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHealing Hands Ministries Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSammons Center for the Arts: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetForefront Living Foundation: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEquest: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $870 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $740 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChild Protective Services Community Partners Inc: $637 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the University Park Public Library: $300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Northeast Texas: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Council of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilkinson Center: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Compass: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgape Clinic: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Fiesta de Las Seis Banderas Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Womans Club Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

The Dallas FoundationTX19.3× affinity7 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 · Kline Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · 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.

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How do I get to Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

About Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $60,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (46%), Health (34%), Religion (8%).
Who are Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Crystal Charity Ball ($113k), American Cancer Society Inc ($39k), Children's Medical Center Foundation ($36k).
Does Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Kline Family Foundation.
Where is Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 38 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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