· Private foundation
The Foss Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 12TH MAN FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| Back on My Feet | $100,000 |
| Ability Beyond | $50,000 |
| The Patriot Figure Skating Club | $25,000 |
| Ball State University | $25,000 |
| GUTS CHURCH | $20,000 |
| Texas Health Resources Foundation | $15,000 |
| Tri Creek School corporation | $10,000 |
| dallas casa | $5,000 |
| Visiting Nurse Associations of America | $5,000 |
| Childrens Medical Center Foundation | $5,000 |
| Tzu Zoo Rescue | $5,000 |
| Genesis Women's Shelter | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
- THTexas Health Resources Foundation2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +144%
- DCDALLAS CASA2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +51%
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +198%
Funded once
- MSMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centerone grant, 2022 · $667k
- JHJAY HIGH SCHOOL DUG OUT CLUBone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TCTHE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +845%
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.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
Through its affiliates, thr operates an integrated healthcare system with services and facilities throughout north central texas to improve the health of the people in the communities they serve.
The tmc health foundation supports the charitable mission of tucson medical center and is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life in our community.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
To further the missions of utsw and thr on a local, regional and national level through the creation of a clinically integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other care providers to deliver healthcare across the continuum and by…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.
Educates texans about career opportunities in the rental housing industry and works with our local apartment association and workforce development partners to support training programs for those new to the industry.
Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Casa and the most unlike its peers is Tzu Zoo Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 BACK ON MY FEET ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATIONS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TZU ZOO RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
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.
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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 Foss Family 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.