· Private foundation
The John and Bonnie Strauss 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $495k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNT Foundation | $100,000 |
| Dallas Leadership Foundation | $75,000 |
| PSC Patriots | $50,000 |
| Prince of Peace Catholic Church | $50,000 |
| St John the Evangelist Catholic Chu | $50,000 |
| Camp Agape | $40,000 |
| Canisius College | $30,000 |
| ACT for America Education Inc | $25,000 |
| Prager University Foundation | $25,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospita | $25,000 |
| Canisius High School | $25,000 |
| Birth Choice | $25,000 |
| The Heritage Foundation | $25,000 |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul | $25,000 |
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 12 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN5× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +83%
- DLDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +179%
- CUCANISIUS UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF DALLASone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -69%
- UOUniv of N Texas Foundationone grant, 2020 · $50k
- CTChrist the King Catholic Churchone grant, 2021 · $35k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
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…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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.
We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 109 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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds PSC PATRIOTS dba PATRIOT SPORTING CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds BIBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VITAE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds THEATRE THREE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
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 · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Addy Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Jm Haggar Jr Family Foundation · Taca Inc · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc
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 John and Bonnie Strauss 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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