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The Patricia Dedman 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.

$184k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$521kEnvironment$308kReligion$206kArts & Culture$129kHealth$108kHuman Services$102kEducation$83kYouth Development$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $146k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALLAS ARBORETUM$41,000
TEXAS TREES FOUNDAITON$31,254
HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$25,000
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS$16,254
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS$12,824
GARDEN ISLAND RESEARCH CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT$10,000
NA PALI COAST OHANA$10,000
SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION$8,000
THE SWEETHEART BALL$7,000
HANALEI INITIATIVE$5,000
PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE$3,500
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$3,500
THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL$3,000
TAYLOR'S GIFT FOUNDATION$2,460
TEXAS CULTURAL TRUST COUNCIL$1,200
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $4k) 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.

area typical 11%CITYSQUARE: $4k → 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

NY
CA
CO
MD
AR
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$820k · 26 repeat orgs$244k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
35

Total granted

$820k
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+35%

Still filing today

69%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • DA
    DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +13%
  • TT
    TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $76k · revenue +73%
  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $57k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -6%
  • Southern Methodist University
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +14%

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
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
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
3
Dallas Citizens Council

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

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4
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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5
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
6
Houston Botanic Garden

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

Environment
7
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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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…

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9
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
10
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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11
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.

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12
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Na Pali Coast Ohana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr10%38%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr10%34%35–55yr13%52%55yr+

The field is 26% 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 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,755

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

48 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. 48 of the 68 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
34/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $521,322 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INCTexas Cultural Trust Council — $24,800 · PhilanthropyHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $205,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHTEXAS TREES FOUNDATION — $76,254 · OtherTEXAS TREES FOUNDATIONTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC — $42,834 · OtherTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INCTHE REFUGE FOR DMST — $40,000 · OtherTHE REFUGE FOR DMSTSWEETHEART BALL INC — $28,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherTAYLOR'S GIFT FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherDALLAS ARBORETUM-CAROLINE ROSE HUNT SOCIETY — $20,000 · Other+32 more — $135,650 · Other+32 moreDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $107,500 · EnvironmentDALLAS ARBORET…Save Our Springs Alliance Inc — $20,000 · EnvironmentSave Our Sprin…WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN — $18,500 · EnvironmentWOMEN'S COUNCI…RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOU…FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC — $13,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE…NA PALI COAST OHANA — $10,000 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $7,000 · Environment+1 more — $4,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $57,050 · EducationSouthern Methodist University — $20,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $12,500 · EducationHOCKADAY SCHOOL — $8,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $6,500 · EducationDALLAS CONTEMPORARY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART MUSEUM — $33,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ASPEN — $4,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $4,850 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentDec My Room Inc — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTrinity Park Conservancy — $12,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY — $6,000 · Community ImprovementThe Hanalei Initiative Inc — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$546,122Other$593,238Environment$198,000Education$104,050Arts & Culture$99,350Youth Development$26,000Community Improvement$23,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $521,322 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $107,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS TREES FOUNDATION — $76,254 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $57,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CONTEMPORARY — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC — $42,834 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REFUGE FOR DMST — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM — $33,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council — $24,800 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAYLOR'S GIFT FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSave Our Springs Alliance Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN — $18,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC — $13,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Park Conservancy — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetB-RAD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetNA PALI COAST OHANA — $10,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetTAYLOR'S GIFT FOUNDATION — $9,300 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLARUE-NEW YORK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $6,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA WOMAN'S NATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWAIPA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hanalei Initiative Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITYSQUARE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Fund For Texas Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARK — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Art Fair Foundation — $2,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDec My Room Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC — $400 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.

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 Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationThe Eugene McDermott …Texas Instruments Fou…Gene & Jerry Jones Fa…Craig and Kathryn Hal…Dallas Jewish Communi…William F & Patricia …Lisa and Clay Cooley …Kline Family Foundati…The Charlie & Moll An…Fidelity Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX29.1× affinity15 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 Eugene McDermott Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Gene & Jerry Jones Family Foundation · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · William F & Patricia L Miller Family Foundation · Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation · Kline Family Foundation · The Charlie & Moll Anderson Foundation · Fidelity 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 Patricia Dedman 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report 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

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Patricia Dedman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Patricia Dedman 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 68 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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