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The Frill Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$18MEducation$785kArts & Culture$673kHealth$475kHuman Services$408kRecreation & Sports$165kFood & Nutrition$133kCivil Rights$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $426k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $640k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL$150,000
THE CLIBURN FOUNDATION$100,000
TEXAS BALLET THEATER$90,000
BARTH SYNDROME FOUNDATION$75,000
GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC$75,000
UVALDE CISD MOVING FORWARD FOUNDATION$50,400
EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCES$50,000
MOTHER'S MILK BANK OF NORTH TEXAS$43,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN$40,000
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$40,000
GREAT HEARTS LAKESIDE$38,100
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$25,000
NEUHAUS EDUCATION CENTER$25,000
PELOTON UNIVERSITY INC$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UVALDE CISD MOVING FORWARD FOUNDATION: $50k → 25%PARADOX SPORTS: $25k → 12%UVALDE CISD MOVING FORWARD FOUNDATION: $25k → 25%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $10k → 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 11%LAUNDRY LOVE FORT WORTH: $5k → 11%WEST AID: $10k → 11%PROJECT 4031 INC: $25k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $20k → 11%LENA POPE HOME INC: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
OH
CO
MO
VA
TN
LA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 27 repeat orgs$782k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
26

Total granted

$2.6M
$484k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+30%

Still filing today

89%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TV
    TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +39%
  • TB
    TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +160%
  • TB
    THE BARTH SYNDROME FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • FW
    FORT WORTH ZOO
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • HA
    Hope and Healing Center & Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +35%
  • RH
    Rockport Hall of Fame Fund
    one grant, 2018 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
3
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
4
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
5
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
6
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
8
Wi Cook Foundation Inc

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
9
Valor Texas Education Foundation

Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…

Education
10
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
11
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Forty First Foundation

The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Ballet Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Laundry Love Fort Worth Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent Schools and Lea…Youth and Family Support Se…Community Health Care Provi…Performing Arts Organizatio…Professional Trade Associat…Emergency Assistance & Food…Youth Competitive Sports Le…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%6%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr16%17%35–55yr20%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr16%91%35–55yr20%5%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/53
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,253

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.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
34/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $18,000,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDTHE CLIBURN FOUNDATION — $271,200 · OtherPELOTON UNIVERSITY INC — $75,000 · OtherKIPP INC — $75,000 · OtherTEXAS GAME WARDEN ASSOC — $50,000 · OtherMOTHERS MILK BANK OF NORTH TEXAS INC — $93,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $80,000 · OtherCADDO LAKE INSTITUTE INC — $45,000 · Other+30 more — $641,972 · OtherTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL — $315,000 · EducationTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA — $155,000 · EducationGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $140,000 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine — $70,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Education+4 more — $25,000 · EducationGLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $210,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $192,500 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $75,000 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $70,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Fort Worth Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMenil Foundation Inc — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARTH SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $190,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston — $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $25,000 · PhilanthropyDESIGN INSPIRATIONS — $9,240 · PhilanthropyUvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation — $75,400 · Human ServicesPARADOX SPORTS — $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 4031 INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARENTING CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $15,000 · Human ServicesLENA POPE HOME INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWESTAID — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $70,000 · HealthTexas Health Resources — $50,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado — $25,000 · HealthSTEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 · Health
Community Improvement$18,000,000Other$1,331,172Education$755,000Arts & Culture$642,500Philanthropy$254,240Human Services$185,400Health$165,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $18,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL — $315,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $192,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BARTH SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $190,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA — $155,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $140,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetMOTHERS MILK BANK OF NORTH TEXAS INC — $93,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation — $75,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $70,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHistoric Fort Worth Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTEXAS GAME WARDEN ASSOC — $50,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTexas Health Resources — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCADDO LAKE INSTITUTE INC — $45,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY — $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLITERACY UNITED INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARADOX SPORTS — $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIETERT CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Food Bank — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT 4031 INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE PARENTING CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUrban Roots NTX — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WORTH REPORT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWESTSIDE LITTLE LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLENA POPE HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTAID — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSTEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESIGN INSPIRATIONS — $9,240 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Ballet Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONU INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Thomas M Helen McKee …Sid W Richardson Foun…Amon G Carter Foundat…The Ninnie L Baird Fo…Rainwater Charitable …Bnsf Railway Foundati…Helen Irwin Littauer …The Roach Foundation …Garvey Texas Foundati…Communities Foundatio…Crystelle Waggoner Ch…
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX40.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · The Roach Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust

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 Frill 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Frill Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Frill 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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