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Texas Trust Gives
INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITIES TO BUILD BRIGHTER FINANCIAL FUTURES.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $20,000 |
| GRAND PRAIRIE ISD | $14,928 |
| ARLINGTON ISD | $13,950 |
| ARLINGTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $12,650 |
| ARLINGTON ISD | $12,000 |
| DESOTO ISD | $11,650 |
| MANSFIELD ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $11,216 |
| GRAND PRAIRIE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,487 |
| MANSFIELD ISD | $10,000 |
| MISSION ARLINGTON | $10,000 |
| CEDAR HILL ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PAUL QUINN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MANSFIELD ISD | $9,032 |
| SAN ANGELO SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $8,784 |
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Texas Trust Gives’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 43 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k 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
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2022 · $43k · revenue +35%
- AIARLINGTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $34k · revenue +17%
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- AIARLINGTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $13k
- CHCEDAR HILL INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $13k
- DIDeSoto ISDone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
Central texas college foundation (foundation) helps central texas college (ctc) grow through the acquisitions of gifts of scholarships, equipment and other donations, in order to help students, to support the facility, to promote programs,…
To furnish Texas AM University-San Antonio with provisions for future and perpetual financial support for its students to help them succeed during college and in the future as valuable contributing members of the community
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
The foundation provides resources to enrich teaching, inspire learning and enhance opportunities to meet the stated mission of excellence in education for all students enrolled in the goliad independent school district
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
The waco isd education foundation strives to fund creative, educational programs and projects not covered by school budgets or tax dollars, thus our motto, "raising the power of education!" more than 93% of all foundation expenses fund…
The texas food & fuel association scholarship foundation awards scholarships to outstanding students in the state of texas.
To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.
The midland education foundation exists to promote excellence in education by generating and distributing additional resources for the benefit of midland isd students and staff.
To support the university of texas system
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Irving Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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 37 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 62 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 NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND PRAIRIE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANSFIELD ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR HILL ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lewisville Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds IRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paul Quinn College ↗
- Who funds HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANGELO SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLOTHIAN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD COLLEGE AT SAN ANGELO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WI Cook Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Methodist Hospitals of Dallas · Stribling Funding Corporation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Celanese Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Trust Gives 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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