· Public charity
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies
To strengthen the lives of children and families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k5 grants · $970k
- $250k+10 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THRU PROJECT | $618,025 |
| BEAR - BE A RESOURCE FOR KIDS | $617,500 |
| GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION | $607,000 |
| PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN | $517,093 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCK | $500,866 |
| FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION | $481,750 |
| PASO DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $457,747 |
| ONE ACCORD FOR KIDS | $415,250 |
| TEXAS FAMILY CARE NETWORK | $333,525 |
| THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE | $262,500 |
| ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES | $230,000 |
| 2INGAGE | $225,000 |
| CHOSEN CARE INC | $210,000 |
| TEXAS FAMILY INITIATIVE LLC | $203,000 |
| BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES | $101,560 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $13.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $703k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ACARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION)4× · 2020–2023 · $3.6M · revenue +172% · 60% of their budget
- PFPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +1%
- TPTHRU PROJECT3× · 2022–2024 · $948k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- CKCOVENANT KIDS INCone grant, 2022 · $380k · revenue -5%
- CVCOMMUNITY VILLAGES DFWone grant, 2021 · $378k
- TATHE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INCone grant, 2021 · $339k · revenue +0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Child Advocacy
To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.
San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.
To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.
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.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
Our Mission is to take the lead in protecting children entrusted to our care or protection from further abuse and neglect by carefully selecting the most qualified and dedicated foster parents available to operate foster homes for the…
Child Advocacy Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Baptist Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is Nothing Just Happens Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
183 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. 183 of the 191 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THRU PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS ↗
- Who funds SJRC TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCK ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ONE ACCORD FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds PRESSLEY RIDGE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAIR FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CHANGE 1 MIND CHANGE 1 LIFE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS ORPHAN CARE NETWORK INC DBA THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds RATCLIFF YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Dunes LGBT Homeless Solutions Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HAY Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds EAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Child Crisis Center of El Paso Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE MANOR HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Respite Care of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVANTAGE ADOPTIONS-OCOC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ach Child and Family Services · The Moody Foundation · Texas Bar Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Inc · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Meadows Foundation Inc · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company
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 Texas Center for Child and Family Studies 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.
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.
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