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The Laura and Walter Elcock Family Foundation at a glance

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The Laura and Walter Elcock 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.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$323kEducation$110kCommunity Improvement$95kHealth$65kInternational$50kAnimals$40kEnvironment$25kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KINDERUSA$25,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$15,000
CORSICANA ARTISTS AND WRITERS$10,000
TEXAS VIGNETTE ART SHOW$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
FARM ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT$10,000
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $5k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$590k · 11 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$590k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+103%

Still filing today

55%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    3× · 2020–2023 · $155k · revenue +282%
  • TG
    THE GOLDEN SEEDS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +417%
  • G
    Glasstire
    3× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TP
    Trinity Park Conservancygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +405%
  • DS
    DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • ND
    NORTH DALLAS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
The New Childrens Museum

The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…

Arts & Culture
2
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
4
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
5
The Museum of North Texas History

To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
8
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
9
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health provides comprehensive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of the individual, advocates…

Health
10
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
11
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
12
Tgp Public Schools

The mission of The Gathering Place is to nurture and celebrate the inner-brilliance of every child.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art; the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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

13 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. 13 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

READING PARTNERS - NATIONAL N TX: $70,000 · OtherREADING PARTNERS - NATIONAL N TXTEXAS VIGNETTE ART SHOW: $45,000 · OtherTEXAS VIGNETTE ART SHOWNORTH TEXAS ALLIANCE TO REDUCE UNINTENDED PREGNANCY IN TEENS: $45,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS ALLIANCE TO REDUCE UNINTENDED PREGNAN…CORSICANA ARTISTS AND WRITERS: $40,000 · OtherCORSICANA ARTISTS AND WRITERSCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $30,000 · OtherCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGYDALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12,500 · Other+9 more: $75,000 · Other+9 moreDallas Museum of Art: $155,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtGlasstire: $40,000 · Arts & CultureGlasstireTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GOLDEN SEEDS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE GOLDEN …KIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RELIEF KINDER USA: $50,000 · InternationalTrinity Park Conservancy: $25,000 · Community ImprovementPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $20,000 · HealthNext Generation Scholars Inc: $20,000 · EducationBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$317,500Arts & Culture$210,000Housing & Shelter$75,000International$50,000Community Improvement$25,000Health$20,000Education$20,000Human Services$5,000

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 budgetDallas Museum of Art: $155,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOLDEN SEEDS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RELIEF KINDER USA: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS ALLIANCE TO REDUCE UNINTENDED PREGNANCY IN TEENS: $45,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGlasstire: $40,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTrinity Park Conservancy: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetNext Generation Scholars Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Pilot School Incorporated: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to The Laura and Walter Elcock Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Laura and Walter Elcock 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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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