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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.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$3.8MFood & Nutrition$3.4MReligion$3.0MHuman Services$1.8MEducation$1.5MAnimals$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MArts & Culture$375kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $3.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$104M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Stewpot$1,200,000
Highland Park Presbyterian Church$400,000
Trinity Christian Academy$350,000
Salvation Army$200,000
Austin Street Center$200,000
Visiting Nurses Association$200,000
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$200,000
North Texas Food Bank$200,000
Operation Kindness$150,000
Baylor Scott & White Dallas Foundation$150,000
Dallas CASA$100,000
OurCalling$100,000
The Bridge$100,000
First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio$100,000
Children's Medical Center Foudation$100,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Nehemiah Center Inc: $25k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $25k → 16%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%Nehemiah Center Inc: $25k → 16%OurCalling: $100k → 14%OurCalling: $25k → 14%KID'S MEALS INC: $50k → 16%Kid's Meals Inc: $50k → 16%Kid's Meals Inc: $50k → 16%CITY SQUARE: $200k → 14%CitySquare: $200k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $100k → 14%The Bridge: $100k → 14%The Bridge: $100k → 14%Parent Compass Inc: $20k → 14%Parent Compass Inc: $15k → 14%PARENT COMPASS INC: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
CA
VA
MD
SC
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 54 repeat orgs$952k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
15

Total granted

$16M
$892k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+118%

Still filing today

70%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
  • VN
    VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +2%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • GC
    GRACE CHURCH LAKE HIGHLANDS
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +7%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +198%
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
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
2
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

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

Health
3
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

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

Health
4
Texas Children's Hospital

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…

Health
5
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
6
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

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 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
8
Spca of Texas

The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.

Animals
9
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
10
Children's Hospital Association of Texas

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.

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11
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
12
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
30/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1,750,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHThe Stewpot: $1,600,000 · OtherThe StewpotForefront Living Foundation The T. Boone Pickens Hospice Center: $1,150,000 · OtherForefront Living Foundation The T. Boone Pickens Hospice CenterNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,100,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKSALVATION ARMY: $1,050,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $800,000 · OtherAUSTIN STREET CENTERChildren's Medical Center Foudation: $550,000 · Other+33 more: $3,204,000 · Other+33 moreVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $800,000 · HealthVISITING N…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIB…Baylor Health Care System Foundation: $180,000 · HealthBaylor Hea…American Heart Association Inc: $150,000 · HealthAmerican H…CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $85,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WIS…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthCITYSQUARE: $600,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUAR…THE BRIDGE: $300,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDG…KIDS' MEALS INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEA…OURCALLING INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLIN…Nehemiah Center Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesNehemiah …PARENT COMPASS INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $600,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $525,000 · EducationTRINITY C…TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationTEXAS CHR…SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $44,500 · EducationOPERATION KINDNESS: $425,000 · AnimalsSTRAYDOG INC: $235,000 · AnimalsHumane Society of North Texas: $150,000 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE FARM: $130,000 · AnimalsBOYKIN SPANIEL RESCUE INC: $65,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $50,000 · AnimalsPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $200,000 · Arts & CulturePANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $80,000 · Arts & CultureBo's Place: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCASETA-Center for the Advancement & Study of Early Texas Art: $15,000 · Arts & CultureIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $315,000 · Religion
Other$11,204,000Health$1,525,000Human Services$1,405,000Education$1,369,500Animals$1,055,000Arts & Culture$355,000Religion$315,000

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 budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $800,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $800,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $600,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $525,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $425,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $315,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CASA: $300,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $300,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetSTRAYDOG INC: $235,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetMain Street Ministries Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $180,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $175,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNational Eczema Association: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE FARM: $130,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNehemiah Center Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $80,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOYKIN SPANIEL RESCUE INC: $65,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $65,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBo's Place: $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPARENT COMPASS INC: $55,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEQUEST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCASETA-Center for the Advancement & Study of Early Texas Art: $15,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetTexas Heart Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 Main Street Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
  • 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
  • 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 Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Greater Houston Commu…Texas Instruments Fou…Community Foundation …The Dallas FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…The Perot FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Raymond James Charita…Charities Aid Foundat…The Ayco Charitable F…American Endowment Fo…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX21.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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