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Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
$3,450
Median grant
2
States reached
$127k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Childrens Medical Center Foundation$20,000
Winnsboro Center for the Arts$15,000
The Crystal Charity Ball$14,350
Turtle Creek Park Conservancy$5,000
The Senior Source$3,450
Charlotte Museum of Nature$1,000
Equest$800
Salvation Army$500
Friends of the UP Public Library$100
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 (FY17–24, $3k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Forefront Living Foundation: $1k → 14%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $350 → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $137 → 14%CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $250 → 14%Community Partners of Dallas: $250 → 14%Family Place: $75 → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $75 → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $75 → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $500 → 14%Family Place: $75 → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $70 → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$236k · 18 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$236k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+21%

Still filing today

72%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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
    8× · 2018–2025 · $113k · revenue +11%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +422%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • SC
    SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +41%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +17%
  • PR
    PCA REFORMED UNIVERSITY MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
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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2
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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3
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
4
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
5
Dallas Citizens Council

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

—
6
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
7
Baylor University Medical Center

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

Health
8
Dallas Regional Chamber

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.

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9
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

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

Health
10
Scott & White Healthcare Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
11
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
12
Dallas Physician Medical Services for Children Inc

Provide dental, general pediatric, and pediatric sub-specialty services, including, but not limited to emergency department coverage, inpatient coverage, orthopedic surgery, and craniofacial orthodontics regardless of payor source or…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

25 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. 25 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $112,600 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALLAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $39,495 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $35,700 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDAT…+5 more: $2,805 · HealthREFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP: $20,000 · OtherREFORMED UNIVERSITY F…DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATIO…Turtle Creek Park Conservancy: $5,000 · OtherTurtle Creek Park Con…SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $4,520 · OtherSENIOR CITIZENS OF GR…Individual grant recipient: $2,525 · OtherSalvation Army: $2,075 · Other+15 more: $6,065 · Other+15 moreWinnsboro Center for the Arts: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,500 · Arts & CultureFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $1,350 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $870 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $637 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $250 · Human ServicesHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,675 · EducationWILKINSON CENTER: $200 · EducationGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $250 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$112,600Health$78,000Other$50,185Arts & Culture$16,500Human Services$3,107Education$1,875Youth Development$250

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: $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
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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Kline Family Foundati…Texas Instruments Fou…Mr & Mrs Gus Blass Fo…The Aileen and Jack P…Hoblitzelle FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationRaymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan H & John C Farris Family Charitable Foundation Inc. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    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.

    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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