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The Bonfield Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Religion$146kFood & Nutrition$36kHuman Services$14kHousing & Shelter$8kEducation$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kInternational$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$400
Median grant
13
States reached
$608k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Mark Catholic Church$10,000
North Texas Food Bank$5,400
Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth$3,000
Fellowship of Catholic University$2,700
Orant Charities$2,472
Tarrant Area Food Bank$2,400
Loreto House$2,000
Catholic Relief Services$1,525
Individual grant recipient$1,350
Monsignor King Outreach Center$1,100
Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry$1,000
Texas AM Foundation$1,000
Acts XXIX$1,000
La Promesa Foundation$840
Sisters of Mary World Villages$518
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boys Town: $100 → 12%LORETO HOUSE: $3k → 8%Cal Farleys Boys Ranch: $100 → 20%Christian Appalachian Project: $100 → 26%Boys Town: $100 → 12%LORETO HOUSE: $3k → 8%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $100 → 20%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100 → 26%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%LORETO HOUSE: $2k → 8%Cal Farleys Boys Ranch: $100 → 20%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100 → 26%Boys Town: $100 → 12%Loreto House: $2k → 8%Cal Farleys Boys Ranch: $100 → 20%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100 → 26%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%Loreto House: $2k → 8%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $100 → 20%Christian Appalachian Project: $100 → 26%BOYS TOWN: $50 → 12%LORETO HOUSE: $1k → 8%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $100 → 20%Christian Appalachian Project: $100 → 26%Loreto House: $1k → 8%CAL FARLEYS BOYS RANCH: $50 → 20%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $50 → 26%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$227k · 37 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
3

Total granted

$227k
$1k

Still filing today

41%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationHealthInternationalOther

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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +89%
  • LH
    LORETO HOUSE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +322%
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEWMAN CATHOLIC CENTER - ST JOHN PAUL II
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • NC
    NEWMAN CATHOLIC CENTER - UMD
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • WO
    Word of Fire Catholic Ministries
    one grant, 2023 · $319

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.

1
International Catholic Jurists Forum Inc

The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…

Religion
2
Explore God Network
3
Regina Angelorum Institute

Inspired by don boscos vision of the two pillarsatop which stood our lady on one pillar and the most holy eucharist on the otherthe goal of regina angelorum institute is to help souls come to know and love jesus, especially in the blessed…

Religion
4
Luis Palau Association

Proclaiming the Good News, Uniting the Church, and Impacting Cities Worldwide.

Religion
5
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
6
Czech Catholic Foundation of Texas
Religion
7
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc

The christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. cbn's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. the mission of cbn and its affiliated organizations is to…

Religion
8
Society for the Propagation of the Faith
9
Saint Francis Ministries
Religion
10
The Grace Message

The Grace Message exists to share the hope and encouragement found in the New Covenant message of Gods grace by helping people embrace the finished work of Christ, walk in their new identity, and enjoy freedom from lifeless religion.

Religion
11
Miracles From Heaven
International
12
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Answers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Orant Charities. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Pantries & AssistanceChristian Missionary Organi…Public School District Foun…Child and Family ServicesPregnancy Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr10%33%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr10%32%35–55yr13%40%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,777

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.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST MARK CATHOLIC CHURCH — $58,917 · OtherST MARK CATHOLIC CHURCHNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $31,150 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH — $25,167 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTHCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $22,667 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATIONFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS — $18,375 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS+26 more — $36,359 · Other+26 moreLORETO HOUSE — $13,000 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH — $650 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $650 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $550 · Human ServicesLA PROMESA FOUNDATION — $5,530 · ReligionACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission — $2,000 · ReligionWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES — $1,463 · ReligionTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE — $1,150 · ReligionSPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY INC — $1,000 · ReligionTexas A&M Foundation — $7,000 · EducationLewisville Education Foundation Inc — $800 · EducationORANT CHARITIES — $3,806 · InternationalARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $650 · Health
Other$192,635Human Services$14,850Religion$11,143Education$7,800International$3,806Health$650

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $31,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLORETO HOUSE — $13,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLA PROMESA FOUNDATION — $5,530 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $5,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMonsignor King Outreach Center — $4,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetORANT CHARITIES — $3,806 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES — $1,463 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE — $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLewisville Education Foundation Inc — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH — $650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC ANSWERS INC — $550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $550 over 6y, 0.0% of budget
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 LORETO HOUSE
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation
  • Who funds LA PROMESA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank
  • Who funds Monsignor King Outreach Center
  • Who funds ORANT CHARITIES
  • Who funds ACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission
  • Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES
  • Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE
  • Who funds SPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds Lewisville Education Foundation Inc
  • Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC
  • Who funds ARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

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.

Texas Instruments FoundationTX15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Light of Dawn Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Baird Foundation Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Bonfield Family 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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