· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| SM WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FIRST LIBERTY | $20,000 |
| REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PARK CITIES QUAIL COALITION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR LIFE | $5,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 39 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 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 Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Arena Hall ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- 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 Texas Conservative Coalition ↗
- Who funds Unlocking Doors Inc ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Deason Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Deason Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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