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The Dalkys Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$141k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Religion$264kHuman Services$93kYouth Development$89kRecreation & Sports$40kEducation$35kFood & Nutrition$33kCommunity Improvement$21kEnvironment$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$753k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAPPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$61,000
MEMORIAL ASSISTIANCE MINISTRIES$50,000
SPRING SPIRIT$7,600
THE CIBOLO CONSERVANCY LAND TRUST$6,500
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$5,000
NORTHBROOK HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOO$5,000
HILL COUNTRY CATTLE WOMENS FOUNDATI$1,500
THE RISE SCHOOL OF HOUSTON$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN$1,000
CIBOLO CENTER FOR CONSERVANCY$1,000
NATIONAL MUTLIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$200
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 (FY20–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 11%CONVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTIANCE MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTIANCE MINISTRIES: $25k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTIANCE MINISTRIES: $9k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTIANCE MINISTRIES: $8k → 16%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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$507k · 13 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$507k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+29%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

  • MA
    Memorial Assistance Ministries
    4× · 2021–2024 · $91k · revenue +137%
  • SI
    SpringSpirit Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $79k · revenue +64%
  • The Houston Food Bank
    3× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SS
    SPRING SPIRIT BASEBALL
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • BF
    BALDWIN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • BO
    BROTHERS OF ALL NATIONS JOINED AS ONE BANJO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · 39% of their budget

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
BookSpring

Bookspring's mission is to build early literacy in children and families through healthcare, education, and the community. Please visit our website at www.bookspring.org for up-to-date information.

Education
2
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

3
Second Servings of Houston

Our mission is to build a healthier houston by providing underserved populations with convenient, affordable access to nutritious food that would otherwise go to waste.

4
Spring Branch Community Health Center

To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.

Health
5
Target Hunger Inc

The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…

Human Services
6
North Dallas Food Pantry

North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.

Human Services
7
Backpack Friends Incorporated

Our mission is to alleviate weekend hunger among school children in Texas. We do this by (1) providing shelf-stable, kid-friendly, nutritious food, (2) creating community partnerships, and (3) building awareness.

Human Services
8
Houston Bar Foundation

The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.

Crime & Legal
9
The Brenda & John H Duncan Rise School of Houston

The mission of The Rise School of Houston is to provide the highest quality of early education services to children with developmental disabilities and those without disabilities.

Education
10
National Memorial Ladies

The National Memorial Ladies is a volunteer military funeral service for the purpose of ensuring that no soldier is buried alone. In addition, we supply monuments and flowers for each gravesite. We honorably attend the services for of our…

Public Benefit
11
North East Texas Benevolence Inc

Provide basic food essentials to individuals and families in need in local community through voluntary contributions from individuals and organiztions.

Food & Nutrition
12
Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation

To implement solutions that promote good health for the individual, the health system and the community. we collaborate with others as well as create signature, evidence-based ways to improve the communities where people live, work, learn…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spring Branch Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bella's Buddies 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

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 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHAPPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $215,000 · OtherCHAPPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCHSPRINGSPRINT BENEVOLENCE FUND — $48,000 · OtherSPRINGSPRINT BENEVOLENCE FUNDSPRING SPIRIT BASEBALL — $34,600 · OtherSPRING SPIRIT BASEBALLThe Houston Food Bank — $27,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankBALDWIN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP — $25,000 · OtherBALDWIN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIPBROTHERS OF ALL NATIONS JOINED AS ONE BANJO INC — $20,000 · Other+21 more — $53,900 · Other+21 moreMemorial Assistance Ministries — $91,100 · Human ServicesMemorial Assista…+2 more — $1,750 · Human ServicesSpringSpirit Inc — $78,800 · Recreation & SportsSpringSpirit I…THE CIBOLO CONSERVANCY dba HEART OF TEXAS CONSERVANCY — $9,500 · Public BenefitBella's Buddies Inc — $8,000 · AnimalsNORTHBROOK HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB — $5,000 · EducationSPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationiWRITE — $500 · EducationNMDP FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyTEXAS WATCH FOUNDATION — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$423,500Human Services$92,850Recreation & Sports$78,800Public Benefit$9,500Animals$8,000Education$6,500Philanthropy$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries — $91,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc — $78,800 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHERS OF ALL NATIONS JOINED AS ONE BANJO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetTHE CIBOLO CONSERVANCY dba HEART OF TEXAS CONSERVANCY — $9,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBella's Buddies Inc — $8,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHBROOK HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDoctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetiWRITE — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS WATCH FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBERGHEIM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Memorial Assistance Ministries
  • Who funds SpringSpirit Inc
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank
  • Who funds BROTHERS OF ALL NATIONS JOINED AS ONE BANJO INC
  • Who funds THE CIBOLO CONSERVANCY dba HEART OF TEXAS CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds Bella's Buddies Inc
  • Who funds NORTHBROOK HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB
  • Who funds WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS
  • Who funds SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Doctor Marnie Rose Foundation Inc
  • Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Junior League of Houston Inc
  • Who funds iWRITE
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE
  • Who funds TEXAS WATCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BERGHEIM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • Who funds EAST SPRING BRANCH FOOD PANTRY

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX18.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Memorial Hermann Health System · Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · 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 The Dalkys 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Dalkys Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Dalkys Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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