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The Gilmer Bennett 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Birchman Baptist Church | $63,855 |
| DANBURY INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +74% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2017–2021 · $77k · revenue +134%
- RARIVERTREE ACADEMY3× · 2018–2020 · $74k · revenue +109%
- CCCOVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL3× · 2017–2021 · $41k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- BGBilly Graham Evangelistic Assocone grant, 2021 · $10k
- NSNew Salem Baptist Churchone grant, 2018 · $9k
- PHPREGNANCY HELPE CENTER OF FORT WORTone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
New friends new life restores and empowers trafficked and sexually exploited teen girls, women and their children, and drives awareness of the issue and its prevalence. through case management, trauma-informed counseling, and economic…
We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
Connect young people ages 1624 who are transitioning out of foster or juvenile care and their unhoused peers in North Texas with the support they need to reach self-sufficiency, through individualized support, planning, and access to…
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
The purpose of Tarrant Net is to To participate with God in His vision to see Christian churches and ministries from across racial and denominational lines workin
Network Beyond is a Christian organization serving vulnerable and under-resourced people. We focus on three areas: 1. Leadership development - equipping global leaders with biblically based training. 2. Compassion and justice - support for…
Founded in 2009, Traffick911 exists to free youth from sex trafficking through trust-based relationships. We believe that sex trafficking is a symptom of a deeply-rooted issue: relational brokenness. Our extensive experience with countless…
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas creates healthier communities by providing primary and reproductive healthcare services, delivering science-based education programs, and serving as a strong advocate for reproductive justice in Texas.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unbound Now and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 23 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE NET FW INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UnBound North Texas ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNBOUND NOW ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · The Junior League of Fort Worth Inc · Once Upon a Time Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Gilmer Bennett 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.
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