· Private foundation
The Addy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $530k
- $50k–250k40 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+14 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC | $7,200,000 |
| SPCA | $5,000,000 |
| THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY | $1,000,000 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $700,000 |
| UNITED TO LEARN | $531,633 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER DALLAS | $500,000 |
| THE STOREHOUSE OF COLLIN COUNTY | $500,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KATY TRAIL | $500,000 |
| PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE | $500,000 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $500,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| METROCREST SERVICES INC | $300,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC | $300,000 |
| HOUSING FORWARD | $200,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $6.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 40 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.6M 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
The Trustees of Princeton University6× · 2019–2025 · $10M · revenue +5%- NTNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC2× · 2019–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +163%
Southern Methodist University6× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $2.5M
- SMSAINT MARK'S SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $520k
- NDNORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $500k · 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.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher…
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a 501(c)(3) public-private consortium of public, private, civic and academia to support smart city initiatives in Dallas. Our definition of a Smart City is one at the intersection of community, data…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Justice Reform Foundation. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
193 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 193 of the 270 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds Circuit Trail Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds UNITED TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Trinity Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FAIR PARK FIRST ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DOES IT ↗
- Who funds THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw
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 The Addy 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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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