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The Dvornak Foundation at a glance

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The Dvornak 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.

$356k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$333kHealth$32kArts & Culture$9kHuman Services$8kPublic Benefit$5kYouth Development$5kInternational$5kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $23k
  • $250k+1 grant · $333k
$1,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DVORNAK FAMILY FOUNDATION$333,112
ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL$2,000
ELDERHEART INC DBA MISSION 22$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
CHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION$1,500
OZONE MUSIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,500
ONE WAY LOVE INC$1,500
NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL$1,500
HOME RUN HITTERS INTERNATIONAL INC$1,500
PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$1,500
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$1,500
DELIVERING HOPE NOLA$1,500
THE CHILDRENS HEART FOUNDATION$1,500
SIRE-THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP$1,500
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$1,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILIES TO FREEDOM: $2k → 14%FAMILIES TO FREEDOM: $1k → 14%FAMILIES TO FREEDOM: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OR
MD
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Dvornak Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 100%.

The Dvornak Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 17 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$66k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AF
    ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +93%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +28%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $500
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Miracle Flights

Miracle flights is a national charity that provides free commercial airline tickets for u.s. residents in need of distant medical care not available in their own communities.

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2
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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3
Hope for Hie

Hope for HIEs mission is to improve the quality of life for children and families affected by neonatal and pediatric-acquired hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy HIE through awareness advocacy education research and support.

Health
4
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
5
Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes

The organization's mission is to save the lives of children and young adults who are genetically predisposed or otherwise susceptible to sudden death to cardiac arrhythmias and to provide education and support to families and the medical…

Health
6
Horses for Healing Inc

The mission of Horses for Healing Inc is the provision of client-centered, trauma-informed, and evidence-based clinical equine psychotherapy and comlementary services that support healing from pervasive trauma.

Health
7
Afe Foundation

We are committed to identifying the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of amniotic fluid embolism and bring our information and resources to healthcare providers and impacted families through our education and support programs.We…

Health
8
Heroic Hearts Project Inc

Our mission is to provide hope and healing to military veterans that have been left hopeless by the current veteran affairs system. we seek to spread awareness in the veteran community of powerful plant-based treatments as well as other…

International
9
Helicopters for Heroes
Human Services
10
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
11
Aeroangel Inc

Since 2010, aeroangel has provided free private jet flights primarily for seriously ill children needing travel to and from distant, life-saving medical care. aeroangel is a unique, national aviation charity that uses only private jets…

Health
12
Medical Mission International - Usa

To relieve and alleviate human suffering, misery, poverty, sickness, and distress throughout the world by providing emergency medical relief, funding, and support.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DVORNAK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $333,112 · OtherDVORNAK FAMILY FOUNDATION+9 more: $25,250 · Other+9 moreANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $6,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · HealthELDERHEART INC: $5,250 · Arts & CultureOzone Music Education Foundation Inc: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyHOME RUN HITTERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,000 · ReligionOne Way Love Inc: $1,500 · ReligionPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $4,000 · Public Benefit
Other$358,362Health$10,500Arts & Culture$9,250Philanthropy$9,000Human Services$7,000Religion$4,500Public Benefit$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetELDERHEART INC: $5,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOzone Music Education Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHOME RUN HITTERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSIRE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNational 4-H Council: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Way Love Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dvornak Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dvornak Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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