· Private foundation
Tess White Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAL FARLEY BOYS RANCH | $11,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ONE MAN'S TREASURE | $5,000 |
| HEARTS AND HANDS OF EAST TX | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +106% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OMONE MAN'S TREASURE7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +692%
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN3× · 2019–2021 · $25k · revenue +106%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- FFFOREVER FAMILIES INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +10%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- VAVOGEL ALCOVEone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -28%
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.
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.
North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
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.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ONE MAN'S TREASURE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOREVER FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN VALLEY BANK COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORP ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRVING HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tess White Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tess White Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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