· Private foundation
The Deason 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $280k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| STAND TOGETHER FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $290,000 |
| NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN | $100,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC | $80,000 |
| SM WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| FIRST LIBERTY | $20,000 |
| REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PARK CITIES QUAIL COALITION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
Southern Methodist University7× · 2017–2024 · $9.9M · revenue +57%- TPTURNING POINT USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue ×14
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $902k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- ILI LOVE MY ISLAND DOGone grant, 2017 · $36k
- MGMOVIE GUIDE AWARDS GALAone grant, 2023 · $35k
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +78%
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 ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
See Schedule OTLR works to shape policy primarily in the Texas civil justice and court system through public education, legislative advocacy and building broad public support for a fair, competent and honest judiciary as well as a fair,…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Texas Conservative Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 39 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SM Wright Foundation ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arena Hall ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF DALLAS/FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds Unlocking Doors Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Conservative Coalition ↗
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 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Dallas Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance 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 Deason 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.
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.