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The Good Foundation of Texas

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.

$14k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Philanthropy$67kCommunity Improvement$20kHuman Services$6kCrime & Legal$2kHousing & Shelter$2kInternational$408Education$314Youth Development$150Other$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$158
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$10,000
VERNA'S HELP FOUNDATION$3,778
GRAPEVINE FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$181
Individual grant recipient$158
DALLAS ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC$150
SOLAR PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$133
NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE$75
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AUSTIN STREET CENTER: $545 → 10%CITY OF HURST: $158 → 11%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $10k → 14%INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $408 → 14%THE COMMON GROUND FOUNDATION: $150 → 14%AUSTIN STREET CENTER: $48 → 10%GRAPEVINE FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $181 → 11%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $8k → 14%NETWORK FOR GOOD: $1k → 14%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $5k → 14%TEXAS WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $19k → 14%SOLAR PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $133 → 14%DALLAS ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $150 → 14%TEXAS WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SHELTER MINISTRIES OF DALLAS: $1k → 14%PERSHING ELEMENTARY: $2k → 14%NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $2k → 14%DALLAS FOUNDATION: $225 → 14%NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $75 → 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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46k · 4 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$46k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+75%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $23k · revenue -14%
  • DS
    DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue -9%
  • NF
    NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE
    2× · 2019–2023 · $2k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $408 · revenue +75%
  • CG
    COMMON GROUND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150 · revenue -31%
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
3
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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4
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
5
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
6
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
7
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

—
8
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…

Community Improvement
9
Downtown Safety Patrol Inc

The downtown safety patrol serves the downtown dallas community. the downtown safety patrol places an increased emphasis on safety and crime prevention while, at the same time, greeting and providing information to downtown pedestrians.

—
10
Dallas Bar Foundation

The purpose or purposes for which the Foundation is organized are educational and charitable, and to that end the corporation is formed to sponsor and encourage research, publications, institutes and forums for the furtherance of justice…

Crime & Legal
11
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

—
12
Dallas Zoological Society

Support of the dallas zoo as an outstanding center of education, entertainment and wildlife conservation through fundraising, volunteerism, promoting public awareness and participation, and enhancing the visitor experience.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Common Ground Foundation Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas Women's Foundation: $43,500 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationVERNAS HELP FOUNDATION: $3,778 · OtherVERNAS HELP FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $2,378 · OtherAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $1,775 · Other+2 more: $291 · OtherUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INCDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $20,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS+1 more: $225 · PhilanthropyNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $2,075 · Crime & LegalNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $408 · InternationalFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $181 · EducationCOMMON GROUND FOUNDATION INC: $150 · Youth DevelopmentDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $150 · Environment
Other$51,722Philanthropy$42,725Crime & Legal$2,075Public Safety & Disaster$1,000International$408Education$181Youth Development$150Environment$150

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 budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $43,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $2,075 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $1,775 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $408 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $181 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON GROUND FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $150 over 1y, 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Good Foundation of Texas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Good Foundation of Texas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Good Foundation of Texas?

    Find your warmest path to The Good Foundation of Texas 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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