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The Judy and Paul Whitman 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.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$32kReligion$20kHuman Services$18kPhilanthropy$15kEducation$9kEnvironment$9kArts & Culture$5kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$417k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SMU CATHOLIC CHARITIES$4,000
CHRIST THE KING$2,200
THE VENDOME ON TURTLE CREEK-HOLIDAY FUND$1,700
TURTLE CREEK ASSOCIATION$1,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DALLAS$1,250
HOLY ANGELS$1,000
THE WINSTON SCHOOL$1,000
JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL & EVALUATION CENTER$1,000
TEXAS TECH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$1,000
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
YMCA METROPOLITAN DALLAS$1,000
SACRED HEART SCHOOL$1,000
GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER$1,000
THE DALLAS FOUNDATION$800
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE RYAN FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%BEVP: $100 → 14%YMCA METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
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NC
LA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$83k · 23 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
36

Total granted

$83k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+36%

Still filing today

39%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • SC
    Salesmanship Club of Dallas
    5× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +23%
  • TC
    TURTLE CREEK ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +359%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +193%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE EMILY AND JAMES TRAWEEK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • TV
    THE VINTAGE CLUB EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • SM
    SAINT MARYS SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $900 · revenue +36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Dallas Citizens Council

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

2
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.

3
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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
Dallas Regional Chamber

Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.

6
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
7
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

8
The Real Estate Council Inc

Trec's mission is to cultivate relationships in the commercial real estate industry to catalyze community investment, influence policy, propel careers and develop the leaders of tomorrow.we believe relationships are the lifeblood of career…

9
Dallas Express Media

To provide unbiased, non-partisan news coverage for the city and county of Dallas.

Arts & Culture
10
The Episcopal School of Dallas Inc

Esd prepares children for intellectual discovery, integrity and purpose; we develop the talent and potential in each student through sound learning, discipline, and faith.

11
Dallas International University

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

Education
12
Dallas Bar Association

The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bevp Birds Eye View Project. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic Parks & Gardens Mana…Alternative & Specialized S…Healthcare System SupportInternational Humanitarian …Public Sector Support Organ…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr9%15%35–55yr13%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr9%14%35–55yr13%66%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
18%
3,971/22,190

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.

04the grantee network

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SMU CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY — $8,500 · OtherSMU CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRYSMU CATHOLIC CHARITIES — $8,000 · OtherSMU CATHOLIC CHARITIESCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC — $7,750 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INCCHRIST THE KING — $6,400 · OtherCHRIST THE KINGIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE EMILY AND JAMES TRAWEEK FOUNDATION — $2,400 · Other+56 more — $29,344 · Other+56 moreSalesmanship Club of Dallas — $20,720 · Community ImprovementSalesmanship Club of…NORTHWOOD WOMANS CLUB — $1,075 · Community ImprovementTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $9,800 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS …CARRY THE LOAD — $1,200 · PhilanthropyCARRY THE L…ELIZABETH TOON CHARITIES — $1,000 · PhilanthropyELIZABETH T…DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 · PhilanthropyTURTLE CREEK ASSOCIATION — $8,525 · EnvironmentEisenhower Medical Center — $6,000 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthMomentous Institute — $2,900 · Youth DevelopmentJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER — $1,000 · EducationSAINT MARYS SCHOOL — $900 · Education
Other$67,394Community Improvement$21,795Philanthropy$12,500Environment$8,525Health$6,100Youth Development$2,900Education$1,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas — $20,720 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $9,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE CREEK ASSOCIATION — $8,525 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC — $7,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMomentous Institute — $2,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD — $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWOOD WOMANS CLUB — $1,075 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Winston School — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARYS SCHOOL — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC — $544 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIES IN SERVICE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Esperanza Project — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYAN FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Salesmanship Club of Dallas
  • Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TURTLE CREEK ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center
  • Who funds Momentous Institute
  • Who funds CARRY THE LOAD
  • Who funds NORTHWOOD WOMANS CLUB
  • Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC
  • Who funds The Winston School
  • Who funds ELIZABETH TOON CHARITIES
  • Who funds JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER
  • Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC
  • Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC
  • Who funds ALLIES IN SERVICE

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX17.4× affinity7 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 · Amy & Leslie Ware Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Judy and Paul Whitman 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Judy and Paul Whitman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Judy and Paul Whitman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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