· Private foundation
The Byron Nelson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HILLS CHURCH | $100,000 |
| SALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF OF DALLAS INC | $100,000 |
| ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF FORT WORTH | $40,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF GREATER DALLAS | $40,000 |
| VALIANT HEARTS | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP | $25,000 |
| HEARTS FOR HOMES | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $515k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSalesmanship Club of Dallas4× · 2017–2020 · $330k · revenue +16%
- CGCollege Golf Fellowship9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +155%
- HFHEARTS FOR HOMES7× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- COCITY OF ROANOKE TXone grant, 2020 · $1.3M
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.
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.
Support men's and women's intercollegiate golf programs at SMU
First Tee - West Texas' mission is to impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values, and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
To introduce and provide youth in south texas broad opportunities to experience the game of golf, develop their talent as players and themselves as individuals and promote scholarship benefits to as many qualified candidates as possible.…
Support momentous institute and the salesmanship club of dallas to promote the educational and mental health services for children and their families through an affiliated non-profit operating corporation. the salesmanship club of dallas…
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…
Partners with families by providing quality academics, christian service education, and biblically integrated character development in order to equip students to impact their world.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
At fort worth colonial charities, we are dedicated to empowering the next generation through innovative educational, athletic, and enrichment programs supported by our investment. we believe in fostering not just skills, but confidence and…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
Provide pastoral chaplaincy and counseling support to women in professional and college golf; leadership and mentor training; offer Bible studies spiritual disciplines and evangelistic outreach to women in professional and college golf.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas ↗
- Who funds College Golf Fellowship ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS FOR HOMES ↗
- Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Byron Nelson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Byron Nelson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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