· Private foundation
The Dorothy Gaines 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 $10k11 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILL COUNTY CPS BOARD | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HILLSBORO CITY LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| HILL COUNTY KIDS | $7,000 |
| Hill County Paw Pals | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ABBOTT AG BOOSTER CLUB | $6,000 |
| COVINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $6,000 |
| HILLSBORO ARTS LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF TARRANT COUNT | $5,000 |
| HUBBARD ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE TX | $3,500 |
| CASA OF HILL COUNTY | $3,300 |
| CUB SCOUTS OF AMERICA HILLSBORO | $1,000 |
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, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY4× · 2020–2023 · $29k · revenue +40%
- HCHILL COUNTY PAW PALS6× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +157%
- TCTARRANT COUNTY SAMARITAN HOUSING INC3× · 2018–2021 · $25k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FT WOone grant, 2023 · $10k
- HPHOPE PRISON MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +156%
- PVPENELOPE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue ×15 · 43% of their budget
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.
Animal Rescue
Feline rescue and making the community aware of the need for trap, spay/neuter, release programs (TNR) to reduce and control the feral cat population in Parker and Tarrant Counties.
Frisco Humane Society (FHS) is an all-volunteer, all-foster home based, no kill animal rescue organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for unwanted, homeless or abused animals. FHS provides temporary foster care and medical…
Save animals in a county with no animal services
Providing a safe and humane animal shelter for unwanted animals in Hawkins County.
The mission of Hearts for Homes is to improve the living conditions of low-income senior homeowners in Denton County. Hearts for Homes is a nonprofit Christian outreach providing hope and dignity through home rehabilitation, affording…
To provide temporary shelter, pet food, veterinary care and rehabilitation to stray pets and animals and to educate the community in proper pet care.
Hood County Humane Society is committed to the prevention of animal suffering and over population through public informaiton, aggressive spay/neuter programs, and adkption of shelter pets to appropriate homes
Fight and prevent fires, provide emergency assistance in Wood County, Texas
Our Mission is to be a SERVANT TO THE COMMUNITY
Rescue, spay, and neuter animals
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 50 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 SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTY PAW PALS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TARRANT COUNTY SAMARITAN HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAHS PLACE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HILLSBORO CITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HILL COUNTY TEXAS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WHITNEY MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE DBA OUR DAILY BREAD WHITNEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The YouthVantage Alliance ↗
- Who funds HOPE PRISON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PENELOPE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DROWZYDAWG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Reflextion Ranch ↗
- Who funds HILLSBORO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION HILLSBORO MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
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: George G & Alva Hudson Smith Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dorothy Gaines Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorothy Gaines Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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