· Private foundation
The Gayden Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Stewpot | $1,200,000 |
| Highland Park Presbyterian Church | $400,000 |
| Trinity Christian Academy | $350,000 |
| North Texas Food Bank | $200,000 |
| Salvation Army | $200,000 |
| Austin Street Center | $200,000 |
| Visiting Nurses Association | $200,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $200,000 |
| Operation Kindness | $150,000 |
| Baylor Scott & White Dallas Foundation | $150,000 |
| Forefront Living Foundation The T Boone Pickens Hospice Center | $100,000 |
| Dallas CASA | $100,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio | $100,000 |
| OurCalling | $100,000 |
| Children's Medical Center Foudation | $100,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
54 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
- VNVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS4× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +2%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- FLForefront Living Foundation The T. Boone Pickens Hospice Centerone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- GCGRACE CHURCH LAKE HIGHLANDSone grant, 2022 · $250k
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +7%
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.
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.…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
To advance children's health and well-being by advocating for policies and funding that promote children's access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas and the most unlike its peers is Caseta-Center for the Advancement & Study of Early Texas Art. 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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 74 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 NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds STRAYDOG INC ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Main Street Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds National Eczema Association ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FARM ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds Nehemiah Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment 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 Gayden 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.