· Private foundation
The Florence Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NEXUS RECOVERY CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| FAMILY GATEWAY INC | $15,000 |
| COMMONGOOD MEDICAL | $15,000 |
| DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC | $15,000 |
| THE STEWPOT - 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| MY POSSIBILITIES | $15,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION | $15,000 |
| DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| HEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS | $10,000 |
| ALL COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| JONATHAN'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| AGAPE RESOURCE & ASSISTANCE CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Florence Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k 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
- SMSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $816k · revenue +505%
- MGMane Gait5× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +255%
- FGFAMILY GATEWAY INC3× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- CCITYSQUAREone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -70%
- DCDALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2024 · $50k
- FFFOREST FORWARDone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming and affirming environment for youth 18-24 experiencing homelessness providing short-term housing and case management. Elevate North Texas addresses youth homelessness from two angles: a hotel program…
Dallas area habitat for humanity, inc. is a nondenominational christian not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to sponsor specific projects in habitat development for the dallas, texas area. modest but adequate housing, new or…
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
Our mission is to provide accessible high-quality counseling, training, psychological evaluations, and educational testing that equip our clients to grow through lifes changes and challenges.
Operation care international exists to glorify god. in obedience to his will, we connect impoverished children and the homeless to jesus christ providing for their physical needs through god's provision both at home and abroad.
A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.
Our mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We support the health and well-being of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Makawao History Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
98 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. 98 of the 125 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 SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mane Gait ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds FOREST FORWARD ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ADVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds MERWIN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISTIC TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds HUI NO'EAU ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Oak Hill Academy ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds OUR FRIENDS PLACE ↗
- Who funds COMMONGOOD MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MOMMIES IN NEED ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
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: W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · The Addy Foundation
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 Florence 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.
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