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The Florence Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$395k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$363kHousing & Shelter$136kRecreation & Sports$130kEducation$118kArts & Culture$114kCommunity Improvement$84kPhilanthropy$81kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $345k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$30,000
NEXUS RECOVERY CENTER INC$25,000
FAMILY GATEWAY INC$15,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION$15,000
COMMONGOOD MEDICAL$15,000
DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$15,000
THE STEWPOT - 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$15,000
MY POSSIBILITIES$15,000
DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$15,000
THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC$15,000
THE STOREHOUSE OF COLLIN COUNTY$10,000
CRISTO REY DALLAS$10,000
AUSTIN STREET CENTER$10,000
ALL COMMUNITY OUTREACH$10,000
FAMILY PLACE INC$10,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LANGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $4k → 12%DOWN HOME RANCH INC: $5k → 12%NEXT STEPS THE COLONY: $2k → 8%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $2k → 12%NEXT STEPS THE COLONY: $2k → 8%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $2k → 12%MANE GAIT: $53k → 5%NEXT STEPS THE COLONY: $2k → 8%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $2k → 12%MANE GAIT: $3k → 5%NEXT STEPS THE COLONY: $2k → 8%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $2k → 12%MANE GAIT: $3k → 5%NEXT STEPS THE COLONY: $2k → 8%HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES: $1k → 12%MANE GAIT: $3k → 5%NEXT STEPS THE COLONY: $2k → 8%NORTH DALLAS FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 8%MANE GAIT: $3k → 5%DIVINE NATURE ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $15k → 14%DENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY: $10k → 8%DENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY: $5k → 8%DENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY: $5k → 8%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $10k → 5%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $5k → 14%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $15k → 14%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $5k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $50k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 14%WESLEY RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $1k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $10k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $10k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $5k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $10k → 14%FOR OAKCLIFF: $5k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $10k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of The Florence Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 88%.

The Florence 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 38 repeat orgs$770k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
61

Total granted

$1.6M
$564k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+9%

Still filing today

76%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $816k · revenue +505%
  • MG
    Mane Gait
    5× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +255%
  • FG
    FAMILY GATEWAY INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • DC
    DALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • C
    CITYSQUARE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -70%
  • FF
    FOREST FORWARD
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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
Downtown Dallas Inc

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.…

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2
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
3
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
4
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

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…

Employment
5
UnBound North Texas

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.

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6
Elevate North Texas

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…

Health
7
Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc

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…

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8
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
9
The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology

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.

Health
10
Operation Care International Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County

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.

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12
Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; 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.
05the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 125 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/98
Grantees still filing
61/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $815,500 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION+9 more: $90,000 · Education+9 moreFAIR PARK FIRST COMMUNITY PARK: $100,000 · OtherFAIR PARK FIRST COMMUNITY PARKMAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: $64,000 · OtherMAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTERDALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $50,000 · OtherDALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERMY POSSIBILITIES: $30,000 · OtherDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $35,000 · Other+59 more: $512,750 · Other+59 moreMane Gait: $65,000 · Human ServicesMane GaitCITYSQUARE: $50,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUAREDENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesDENTON COUNTY FR…JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesJULIETTE FOWLER …MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIAH …TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesMOMMIES IN NEED: $15,000 · Human Services+19 more: $140,250 · Human Services+19 moreMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $25,000 · HealthHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · HealthHEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $15,000 · HealthAGAPE CLINIC: $15,000 · HealthCOMMONGOOD MEDICAL: $15,000 · HealthMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Health+4 more: $20,000 · HealthFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterAGAPE RESOURCE & ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFOREST FORWARD: $25,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $15,500 · Community ImprovementTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Community ImprovementINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF DENTON INC: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Education$905,500Other$791,750Human Services$360,250Health$172,000Housing & Shelter$106,000Philanthropy$81,000Community Improvement$53,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $815,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMane Gait: $65,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOREST FORWARD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRISE ADVENTURES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMERWIN CONSERVANCY INC: $21,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS CASA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISTIC TREATMENT CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUI NO'EAU: $17,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOak Hill Academy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMMIES IN NEED: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAGAPE CLINIC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR FRIENDS PLACE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC: $10,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUEST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT STEPS THE COLONY: $10,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationThe Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…Hoblitzelle FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Texas Instruments Fou…The Moody FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Roy and Christine Stu…The Addy Foundation
W P & Bulah Luse FoundationTX81.4× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Florence Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Florence Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Florence Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Florence Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 125 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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