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Texas Center for Child and Family Studies

To strengthen the lives of children and families.

$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$618k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$24MHealth$1.0MReligion$636kYouth Development$480kHousing & Shelter$245kCrime & Legal$146kEducation$65kPhilanthropy$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $970k
  • $250k+10 grants · $4.8M
$415,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE BAIR FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $320k → 13%CITY HOUSE: $60k → 5%SJRC TEXAS: $600k → 7%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $607k → 11%ADDY'S HOPE ADOPTION AGENCY: $60k → 12%PATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $120k → 13%ONE ACCORD FOR KIDS: $415k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $102k → 14%SJRC TEXAS: $180k → 7%TRELS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $72k → 9%TRULIGHT127 MINISTRIES INC: $60k → 10%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $250k → 11%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $60k → 12%THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE: $263k → 12%DIVINITY FAMILY SERVICES: $95k → 13%ONE ACCORD FOR KIDS: $200k → 14%CHILD CRISIS CENTER OF EL PASO: $120k → 21%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $60k → 11%FOSTER CARE ADVOCACY CENTER: $60k → 16%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $482k → 17%CHOSEN CARE INC: $210k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE DBA LIFEWORKS: $630k → 10%EMBERHOPE YOUTHVILLE: $120k → 16%FOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $235k → 17%TEXAS FAMILY CARE NETWORK: $334k → 19%THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $60k → 16%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCK: $501k → 17%AGAPE RANCH: $120k → 17%TEXAS FAMILY CARE NETWORKPRESSLEY RIDGE TEXAS: $225k → 19%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $120k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCK: $238k → 17%RATCLIFF YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $231k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC: $214k → 17%DUNE'S LGBT HOMELESS SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION: $212k → 11%SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN DBA ARMS WIDE ADOPTION SERVICES: $117k → 16%ADVANTAGE ADOPTIONS - OCOC: $120k → 11%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $120k → 16%YOUTH IN VIEW: $100k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC DBA UPBRING: $283k → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC DBA UPBRING: $104k → 10%CHANGE 1: $275k → 10%PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $517k → 10%PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $365k → 10%PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $183k → 10%PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 10%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $120k → 16%BEAR - BE A RESOURCE FOR KIDS: $618k → 16%BEAR - BE A RESOURCE FOR KIDS: $250k → 16%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 82 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
105

Total granted

$19M
$5.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+16%

Still filing today

89%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $703k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AC
    ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION)
    4× · 2020–2023 · $3.6M · revenue +172% · 60% of their budget
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +1%
  • TP
    THRU PROJECT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $948k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • CK
    COVENANT KIDS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $380k · revenue -5%
  • CV
    COMMUNITY VILLAGES DFW
    one grant, 2021 · $378k
  • TA
    THE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC
    one grant, 2021 · $339k · revenue +0%
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
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
2
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
3
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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4
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
5
Montgomery County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

Serves abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for abused children and their families.

Crime & Legal
6
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
7
Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center Inc

To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.

Human Services
8
The Lullaby House

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.

Youth Development
9
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

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.

Human Services
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Heart of Texas

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
11
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
12
Abrazo Foster Family Agency

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Baptist Home for Children; the most unlike its peers is The Brownson Home Inc. 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

183 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. 183 of the 191 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
172/183
Grantees still filing
113/183
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $1,214,436 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDRENTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $932,000 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTIONBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $867,500 · Human ServicesBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDSSJRC TEXAS INC: $796,472 · Human ServicesSJRC TEXAS INCCOMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCK: $738,366 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCKFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $716,750 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $645,426 · Human ServicesONE ACCORD FOR KIDS: $615,250 · Human ServicesPRESSLEY RIDGE TEXAS: $558,525 · Human Services+76 more: $6,626,442 · Human Services+76 moreTEXAS FAMILY INITIATIVE LLC: $1,224,165 · OtherTEXAS FAMILY INITIATIVE…ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $485,000 · OtherACH CHILD AND FAMILY SE…SAINT FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $454,047 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS COMMUNITY…COMMUNITY VILLAGES DFW: $378,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY VILLAGES DFWCULTIVATE: $297,290 · OtherCULTIVATEARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES: $230,000 · OtherPINNACLE SOCIAL SERVICES LLC: $218,350 · Other+59 more: $2,118,351 · Other+59 moreARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION): $3,558,644 · Community ImprovementARROW CHILD & FA…EAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL: $153,221 · Community Improvement+3 more: $95,750 · Community ImprovementTHRU PROJECT: $947,625 · Youth DevelopmentHAY Center Foundation: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $87,500 · Youth DevelopmentTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $86,700 · Youth DevelopmentHOUSE OF SHILOH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $60,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $58,925 · Youth DevelopmentPaso del Norte Community Foundation: $705,494 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $260,000 · HealthCasa Esperanza Inc: $137,433 · HealthTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $103,667 · HealthHEARTS WITH HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $92,000 · Health+6 more: $130,200 · HealthTHE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC: $339,037 · ReligionNSM INTERNATIONAL WOMENS MINISTRY: $30,286 · ReligionNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $88,925 · Crime & LegalTAPKARD INC: $75,000 · Crime & LegalNOMI NETWORK INC: $32,000 · Crime & LegalHARRIS RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $16,700 · Crime & LegalREFUGE OF LIGHT: $15,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY COMPASS: $15,000 · Crime & Legal+8 more: $40,450 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$13,711,167Other$5,405,203Community Improvement$3,807,615Youth Development$1,440,750Health$1,428,794Religion$369,323Crime & Legal$283,075

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION): $3,558,644 over 4y, 60% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $1,214,436 over 4y, 16% of budgetTHRU PROJECT: $947,625 over 3y, 21% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $932,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $867,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetSJRC TEXAS INC: $796,472 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCK: $738,366 over 2y, 86% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $716,750 over 2y, 28% of budgetPaso del Norte Community Foundation: $705,494 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $645,426 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetONE ACCORD FOR KIDS: $615,250 over 2y, 34% of budgetPRESSLEY RIDGE TEXAS: $558,525 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $485,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC: $413,692 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT KIDS INC: $380,122 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BAIR FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $320,122 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHANGE 1 MIND CHANGE 1 LIFE: $275,277 over 1y, 99% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC: $274,422 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetEL PASO HUMAN SERVICES INC: $264,220 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS ORPHAN CARE NETWORK INC DBA THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE: $262,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $260,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetRATCLIFF YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $231,467 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCHOSEN CARE INC: $210,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHAY Center Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $173,173 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $171,133 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetEAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL: $153,221 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetChild Crisis Center of El Paso Inc: $152,283 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetPATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $151,700 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAGAPE MANOR HOMES INC: $151,700 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetADVANTAGE ADOPTIONS-OCOC: $151,358 over 3y, 17% of budgetRespite Care of San Antonio Inc: $151,358 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCasa Esperanza Inc: $137,433 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetEMBERHOPE INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYouth In View Inc: $115,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetHOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES: $107,103 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $103,667 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $102,310 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRELS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $97,433 over 3y, 10% of budgetEL PASO CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $95,380 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDIVINITY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $95,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMONARCH FAMILY SERVICES: $94,133 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHEARTS WITH HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $92,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetATHLETES FOR CHANGE: $90,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCENTER FOR JUVENILE MANAGEMENT INC: $88,925 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCITY HOUSE INC: $88,925 over 3y, 1.8% 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.

Ach Child and Family …The Moody FoundationTexas Bar FoundationCarl C Anderson Sr an…Harvey E Najim Charit…San Antonio Area Foun…Children's Advocacy C…St Luke's Lutheran He…Meadows Foundation IncThe John G and Marie …The Rees-Jones Founda…Texas Mutual Insuranc…
Ach Child and Family ServicesTX109.2× affinity51 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Texas Center for Child and Family Studies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Center for Child and Family Studies. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Texas Center for Child and Family Studies?

    Find your warmest path to Texas Center for Child and Family Studies 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 191 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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