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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.0MRecreation & Sports$1.9MHuman Services$1.8MYouth Development$720kEducation$505kEmployment$206kReligion$201kAnimals$180kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $258k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $630k
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NOTRE DAME SCHOOL$50,000
OPERATION SECOND CHANCE$50,000
THE WARREN CENTER$50,000
BOOT CAMPAIGN$50,000
THE NORTH TEXAS PGA$40,000
WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS$35,000
TO BE LIKE ME$30,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEROES AND HORSES: $20k → 10%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $50k → 6%TEXAS ROWING FOR ALL: $10k → 10%WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS: $35k → 14%INDO JAX SURF CHARITIES INC: $18k → 12%OPEN ARMS INC: $50k → 28%ARMED SERVICES YMCA: $50k → 7%INDO JAX SURF CHARITIES INC: $15k → 12%ARMED SERVICES YMCA: $50k → 7%SOCIAL MOTION INC: $20k → 16%MANEGAIT: $25k → 5%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $25k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $27k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $24k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $24k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $20k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $20k → 14%FOSTER KIDS CHARITY: $50k → 14%IT'S A SENSORY WORLD: $30k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS - RISE SCHOOL: $20k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS - RISE SCHOOL: $20k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $5k → 14%ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $15k → 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

WA
MT
NY
NV
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 45 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
60

Total granted

$5.5M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+17%

Still filing today

80%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationPublic BenefitReligionOther
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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $730k · revenue +428%
  • NT
    NORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $598k · revenue +106%
  • WC
    WI Cook Foundation Inc
    3× · 2019–2023 · $300k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • LG
    LONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -13%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $185k · revenue -63%
  • 4K
    4E KENNELS HEALING HEARTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -36% · 25% of their budget
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
Camp for All Foundation

Camp For All transforms the world for children and adults with challenging illnesses, disabilities, or special needs.

Youth Development
2
Special Camps for Special Kids

Camp john marc inspires confidence for life through high-quality camping programs for children, teens, and families. year round programming and specialized camp facilities are uniquely designed in partnership with dallas-fort worth area…

Recreation & Sports
3
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
4
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
5
One Summit Inc

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…

Health
6
Ability Connection Texas

The mission of ability connection is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities...one person at a time. the cornerstone of our programs are the core values of compassion, respect and results through a personalized approach to address…

Health
7
Team Impact Inc

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…

Philanthropy
8
Children's Assoc for Maximum Potential (

Camp's mission and current focus is to strengthen and inspire individuals with disabilities - and those who care for them - through recreation, respite and education.

Health
9
Super Heroes With Super Kids
Philanthropy
10
Usaga United States Adaptive Golf Alliance

Serving individuals with disabilities through their inclusion in the game of golf, including but not limited to access, instruction and competition at all levels.

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11
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
12
Lilys Pad

The mission of Lily's Pad is to provide immunocompromised children with a clean environment where they can enjoy typical childhood activities, while offering their caregivers and parents a place to rest and connect. Lily's Pad is home to…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heroes for Children; 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.
04the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 114 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/107
Grantees still filing
67/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $730,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FO…WI Cook Foundation Inc: $300,000 · HealthWI Cook Foundation IncLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $200,000 · HealthLEUKEMIATEXAS INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $185,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICA…PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $150,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY F…NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthTHE HUCKLEBERRY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Health+13 more: $450,000 · Health+13 moreHEROES FOR CHILDREN: $210,000 · OtherHEROES FOR CHILDRENI Am A Golfer Foundation: $185,000 · OtherI Am A Golfer FoundationNOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS INC: $160,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS I…DALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION: $135,000 · OtherDALLAS PARKS FOUNDATIONMY POSSIBILITIES: $101,100 · Other1 MILLION 4 ANNA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN SECTION PGA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherTEAMCONNOR CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Other4E KENNELS HEALING HEARTS INC: $150,000 · Other4E KENNELS HEALING HEARTS INCFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $95,000 · Other+37 more: $950,000 · Other+37 moreNORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION: $598,160 · Recreation & SportsNORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOU…FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $315,000 · Recreation & SportsFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF…THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE COBBS CREEK RESTOR…LONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsLONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDA…SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerican Junior Golf A…+8 more: $235,000 · Recreation & Sports+8 moreAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $500,000 · ReligionAMERICAN …BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $200,750 · ReligionBARNABAS …+1 more: $15,000 · ReligionCLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $115,000 · Human ServicesARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA: $100,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER KIDS CHARITY: $50,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesTO BE LIKE ME: $45,000 · Human ServicesWHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS: $35,000 · Human ServicesIndo Jax Surf Charities Inc: $33,000 · Human ServicesIts a Sensory World Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesDREAM PARK: $28,600 · Human ServicesMane Gait: $25,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human Services+4 more: $65,000 · Human ServicesOperation Second Chance Inc: $300,000 · Public BenefitTHE BOOT CAMPAIGN INC: $300,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION SHOWER: $55,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $25,000 · Public BenefitNORTH TEXAS JR GOLF AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $110,000 · EducationAMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION OF THE US: $80,000 · EducationLAKE HIGHLANDS WOMEN'S LEAGUE: $65,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationPenn State Alumni Association: $45,000 · EducationCHASE'S PLACE INC: $35,000 · EducationRISE SCHOOL OF CORPUS CHRISTI: $25,000 · Education
Health$2,205,000Other$2,386,100Recreation & Sports$1,798,160Religion$715,750Human Services$696,600Public Benefit$680,000Education$420,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $730,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION: $598,160 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $315,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $300,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetTHE BOOT CAMPAIGN INC: $300,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHEROES FOR CHILDREN: $210,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $200,750 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $200,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetI Am A Golfer Foundation: $185,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget4E KENNELS HEALING HEARTS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $150,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetDALLAS PARKS FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $115,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetNORTH TEXAS JR GOLF AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $101,100 over 3y, 0.6% of budget1 MILLION 4 ANNA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN SECTION PGA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTEAMCONNOR CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $95,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HUCKLEBERRY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetAMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION OF THE US: $80,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetLAKE HIGHLANDS WOMEN'S LEAGUE: $65,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCarson Leslie Foundation: $62,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetCELEBRATION OF LOVE: $60,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetOPERATION SHOWER: $55,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHouston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS NORTH TEXAS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOPEN ARMS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBELIEVE IT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetEQUEST: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WARREN CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPenn State Alumni Association: $45,000 over 3y, 46% 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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationThe Moody FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Texas Instruments Fou…Hillcrest FoundationTheodore and Beulah B…Pga Tour IncElizabeth Toon Charit…Community Foundation …Dallas Stars Foundati…Hoblitzelle Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX46.2× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Jordan Spieth Family Foundation 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 114 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 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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