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The Jordan Spieth Family Foundation
THE JORDAN SPIETH FAMILY FOUNDATION is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation established to offer a platform to lend time, help grow awareness and offer financial support for four philanthropic areas: individuals with special needs, junior golf, military support, and pediatric cancer.
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
- $10k–50k9 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $630k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $500,000 |
| COBBS CREEK FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HEROES FOR CHILDREN | $85,000 |
| UNITED ROCKS | $75,000 |
| I AM A GOLFER FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| FOSTER KIDS CHARITY | $50,000 |
| PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC | $50,000 |
| OPERATION SECOND CHANCE | $50,000 |
| THE WARREN CENTER | $50,000 |
| BOOT CAMPAIGN | $50,000 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE NORTH TEXAS PGA | $40,000 |
| WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS | $35,000 |
| K9S FOR WARRIORS | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $623k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 9 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2022 · $730k · revenue +428%
- NTNORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $598k · revenue +106%
- OSOperation Second Chance Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +294%
Funded once
- LGLONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXASone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -13%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $185k · revenue -63%
- 4K4E KENNELS HEALING HEARTS INCone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -36% · 25% of their budget
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.
Camp For All transforms the world for children and adults with challenging illnesses, disabilities, or special needs.
Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.
Serving individuals with disabilities through their inclusion in the game of golf, including but not limited to access, instruction and competition at all levels.
Team impact is the only u.s. nonprofit that tackles the emotional trauma and social isolation experienced by children facing serious and chronic illnesses by matching them with a college athletic team. because no child should be sidelined…
Improve the quality of life for children and adults.
First Tee - West Texas' mission is to impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values, and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
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.…
To positvely impact the lives of young people, including those with special needs and veterans by providing educational programs that build character, instill life enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
One Summit's mission is to help childhood cancer patients build courage, self-confidence, and resilience through experiential learning and mentorship with a U.S. Navy Seal. Our experiential learning takes place in the form of indoor rock…
To promote and expand community awareness of the game of golf in texas through programs serving junior golfers and the community at large.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids Building Character Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Rocks. 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 23 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 114 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 CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOOT CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds WI Cook Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEROES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIATEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds I Am A Golfer Foundation ↗
- Who funds 4E KENNELS HEALING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS JR GOLF AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN SECTION PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 1 MILLION 4 ANNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAMCONNOR CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE HUCKLEBERRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION OF THE US ↗
- Who funds UNITED ROCKS ↗
- Who funds LAKE HIGHLANDS WOMEN'S LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Carson Leslie Foundation ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATION OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SHOWER ↗
- Who funds Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds THE WARREN CENTER INC ↗
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 · The Dallas Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Elizabeth Toon Charities · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Dallas Stars Foundation Inc · Hoblitzelle 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 Jordan Spieth 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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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