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Td Jakes Foundation

The primary mission of the foundation is to connect underrepresented and underserved communities to life changing opportunities.

$8.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Housing & Shelter$3.0MCommunity Improvement$1.8MHealth$1.5MEmployment$750kHuman Services$657kFood & Nutrition$500kSocial Science$500kArts & Culture$210kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $7,700,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,353,396 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $653,396 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.

$500,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILEY UNIVERSITY$1,500,000
PAUL QUINN UNIVERSITY$1,500,000
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE$1,500,000
KINGDOM GLOBAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$500,000
LIGHTSHIP FOUNDATION$500,000
BONTON FARMS$500,000
JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES$500,000
POWER 52 FOUNDATION$500,000
OPERATION HOPE$450,000
THE MILKEN INSTITUTE$250,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%POWER 52 FOUNDATION: $500k → 6%KINGDOM GLOBAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $500k → 8%Community Council of Greater Dallas: $122k → 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.

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 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 International University

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

Education
2
Dunwoody College of Technology

Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…

Education
3
Benedict College

Benedict college is committed to providing transformative learning experiences characterized by high quality academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programming, intentionally designed to develop superior cultural and professional…

Education
4
Women's Business Enterprise National Council

Wbenc's mission is to fuel economic growth globally by identifying, certifying, and facilitating the development of women-owned businesses.

Civil Rights
5
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
6
Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce

To serve as an advocate for the creation, growth, and general welfare of African-Americanbusinesses in the greate Dallas area. The Chamber focuses on economic and businessdevelopment, education, and special projects.

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7
Wallin Education Partners

To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…

Education
8
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
9
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
10
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
11
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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12
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wiley College. 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

18 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. 18 of the 19 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
4/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Wiley College — $1,500,000 · EducationWiley CollegeMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $1,500,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGEPaul Quinn College — $1,500,000 · EducationPaul Quinn CollegeBONTON ENTERPRISES — $500,000 · EducationBONTON ENTERPRISES+1 more — $35,244 · EducationTHE POTTERS HOUSE OF DALLAS INC — $800,000 · OtherTHE POTTERS HOUSE O…OPERATION HOPE INC — $450,000 · OtherOPERATION HOPE INCTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $250,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUT…+1 more — $22,000 · OtherPOWER52 INC — $500,000 · Human ServicesPOWER52 INCKingdom Global Community Development Corporation — $500,000 · Human ServicesKingdom Global…COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS — $122,076 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COUN…Hillman Accelerator — $500,000 · Community ImprovementDALLAS MOMENTUM INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementJOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC — $500,000 · Social ScienceBroadway Dallas Inc — $200,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC — $20,000 · International
Education$5,035,244Other$1,522,000Human Services$1,122,076Community Improvement$540,000Social Science$500,000Arts & Culture$210,000Youth Development$60,000International$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWiley College — $1,500,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPaul Quinn College — $1,500,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHillman Accelerator — $500,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetPOWER52 INC — $500,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetKingdom Global Community Development Corporation — $500,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetJOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC — $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBONTON ENTERPRISES — $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC — $450,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER DALLAS — $122,076 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS MOMENTUM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER — $35,244 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation — $22,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationCelanese FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Graham and Caroly…Texas Instruments Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX15.9× affinity6 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 · Celanese Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Graham and Carolyn Holloway Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Td Jakes 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • POWER52 Inc — 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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