· Private foundation
The Mike and Mary Terry 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of THE MIKE AND MARY TERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $261k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $556k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST RITA SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND | $200,000 |
| URSULINE ACADEMY OF DALLAS | $92,500 |
| JESUIT COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF DALLAS | $76,600 |
| FAMILY GATEWAY | $57,000 |
| CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB | $50,000 |
| HOUSING FORWARD | $40,000 |
| TRINITY PARK CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| BUILDERS OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $30,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL NORTH TEXAS | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $25,000 |
| COMMIT2DALLAS | $25,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH COMMUNITIES MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| METROCREST SERVICES | $15,000 |
| TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $367k) 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 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k 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
- CPCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB5× · 2019–2024 · $275k · revenue +544%
- BLBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER4× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +58%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC2× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- ETEDUCATE TEXAS AT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXASone grant, 2019 · $50k
- NFNEST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +5%
- PPOETICgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +53%
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.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
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…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Poetic. 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 31 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 71 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 HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
- Who funds BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COMPASS ↗
- Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds NEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POETIC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUT TEACH ↗
- Who funds METROCREST SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Trinity Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · George & Fay Young Foundation Inc · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw
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 Mike and Mary Terry 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.
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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