How much did Texas Bar Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of Texas Bar Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

lsjaupdatesonlinejobcovidirondomestic violence

2022

legal advocacymanagerdirectorsupervisedstudentsalarylegal immigrant

2023

srvrslowcollab famforensic interviewlegal prgrmadvoc srvcsadult

2024

low-incsrvcscomprehensivecivil legalstipendslegal srvcdrug crt

2025

rsrcstexansclientsinvestigationfinancialaccess legalsrvs

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $105k
$10k–50k81 grants · $1.5M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$44M

Total assets

Largest grants

Texas Young Lawyers Assc$45,000
One Heart Project$40,000
Affordable Homes of South TX$38,500
Voz de Ninos$36,000
NAMI - Texas$34,264
CASA for the Highlands Lakes$30,000
Mission Granbury$30,000
Merced Housing Texas$30,000
Texas Ctr for the Judiciary$30,000
The University of Texas Fdn$30,000
El Paso County$28,000
Children 4 Tomorrow$27,500
Williamson County$27,215
South Tx College of Law Houst$26,400
Childrens Adv Cntr Smith Cnty$25,047

02The need

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, $885k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.7M · 70 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.7M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+35%

Still filing today

90%

93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $878k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

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AccessHealth
3× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +35%
LS
Lone Star Justice Alliance
3× · 2021–2023 · $78k · revenue +676%
OH
One Heart Project
3× · 2021–2024 · $77k · revenue +159%

Funded once

FO
Friends of Mason Co Courthous
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -97%
LS
Lone Star Legal Aidgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +57%
BI
Brazos Interfaith Img Netwrk
one grant, 2023 · $39k · revenue +7%

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.

Court Appointed Special Advocates

Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights

Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services

Court Appointed Special Advocates of North Texas Inc

To provide court appointed volunteers who serve as advocates and help abused children obtain safe permanent home placements

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Court Appointed Special Advocates Casa

Casa provides trained, court-appointed volunteers to serve as advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children in liberty and chambers counties of texas.

Human Services

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hidalgo Count

To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.

Civil Rights

Casa for Kids of South Central Texas Inc

To recruit, train and supervise volunteers that advocate in the best interests of abused and neglected children in court.

Housing & Shelter

Texprotects-the Texas Association for

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development

Court Appointed Special Advocates

To provide trained community volunteers, to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children, and to promote community awareness about child abuse issues.

Civil Rights

Casa of Harrison County

To provide trained court appointed volunteers to serve as advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children in harrison county texas

Youth Development

Crisis Center of West Texas

Crisis center of west texas provides services to individuals affected by domestic and sexual violence. we provide shelter, counseling and advocacy to help build lives free from violence. we seek social change to end domestic and sexual…

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Casa of Deep East Texas Inc

Train volunteers to advocate for children in court directed foster care.

Crime & Legal

Childrens Advocacy Center of

The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Casa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baylor University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.5%1/218

the rest of the field

14%

10,901/77,283

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.

05the grantee network

193 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

193/193

Grantees still filing

152/193

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,053,539Human Services$1,132,198Crime & Legal$886,272Civil Rights$395,335Health$262,991Education$245,012International$99,800

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

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.

Meadows Foundation IncTX56× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meadows Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Center for Child and Family · United Way of Greater Houston · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Council on Family Violence Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Texas Casa Inc · Greater Houston Community 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 organisation Texas Bar 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Denton County Lawyers Fdn.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 43.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821542777 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Denton County Lawyers Fdn, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Texas Bar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Texas Bar Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Texas Bar Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

193 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Texas Bar Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Texas Bar Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

193 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Texas Bar Foundation?

More from the funding graph