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The Perot Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$31MArts & Culture$11MEducation$8.1MHuman Services$7.7MEmployment$4.7MFood & Nutrition$1.8MReligion$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$90,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
West Point Association of Graduates$140,000
Southern Methodist University$90,000
Communities Foundation of Texas$50,000
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 (FY17–20, $5.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mary Parrish Center: $5k → 14%Fort Worth Hope Center: $15k → 11%Fort Worth Hope Center: $15k → 11%Fort Worth Hope Center: $15k → 11%Fort Worth Hope Center: $5k → 11%Meals on Wheels of Collin County: $20k → 5%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $5k → 14%Meals on Wheels of Collin County: $20k → 5%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $5k → 14%On the Road Lending: $3.0M → 14%Community Partners of Dallas: $400k → 14%Mommies in Need: $100k → 14%Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance: $65k → 14%Community Partners of Dallas: $50k → 14%On the Road Lending: $50k → 14%Behind Every Door Ministries: $25k → 14%On the Road Lending: $25k → 14%Hope Cottage: $20k → 14%Hope Cottage: $20k → 14%Jubilee Park and Community Center: $150k → 14%Jubilee Park and Community Center: $100k → 14%Jubilee Park and Community Center: $100k → 14%Jubilee Park and Community Center: $100k → 14%Our Calling: $10k → 14%Our Calling: $10k → 14%Our Calling: $10k → 14%Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids with Cancer: $10k → 14%Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids with Cancer: $10k → 14%Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids with Cancer: $10k → 14%Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids with Cancer: $10k → 14%American Red Cross North Texas Region: $100k → 14%Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: $5k → 14%Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: $5k → 14%Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: $3k → 14%Jonathan's Place: $25k → 14%Honduras Threads: $5k → 14%The Family Place: $300k → 14%The Family Place: $215k → 14%The Family Place: $200k → 14%The Family Place: $200k → 14%Hope Supply Co: $20k → 14%Hope Supply Co: $20k → 14%Hope Supply Co: $15k → 14%Hope Supply Co: $10k → 14%City Square: $200k → 14%City Square: $100k → 14%City Square: $50k → 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
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$63M · 121 repeat orgs$8.0M to everyone else

121 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 119 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
133

Total granted

$63M
$8.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+35%

Still filing today

68%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    5× · 2018–2022 · $10M · revenue +20%
  • PM
    PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $5.3M · revenue +82%
  • OR
    OTR RESOURCES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3.1M · revenue +7% · 58% of their budget

Funded once

  • TD
    The Dallas Operagraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2.5M · revenue +30%
  • DH
    Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +15%
  • PQ
    Paul Quinn Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +112%

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 International University

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

Education
2
Downtown Dallas Inc

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.…

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3
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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4
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.

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5
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…

Community Improvement
6
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
7
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
8
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
9
Dallas Citizens Council

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

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10
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
11
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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12
Dallas Express Media

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

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%1%<5yr18%1%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr8%34%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr18%2%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr15%8%20–35yr8%21%35–55yr12%59%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/174
the rest of the field
17%
3,525/20,493

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

170 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. 170 of the 256 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
155/170
Grantees still filing
127/170
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UT Southwestern — $15,000,000 · OtherUT SouthwesternThe Salvation Army School for Officers Training — $4,000,000 · OtherThe Salvation Army School for Officers TrainingUnited States Air Force Academy — $1,750,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $1,600,000 · OtherThe Salvation Army — $1,370,000 · OtherAUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGIAL SEMINARY — $1,250,000 · Other+117 more — $9,363,155 · Other+117 moreTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $10,001,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HO…PARKLAND FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATIONMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER — $500,000 · Health+13 more — $734,039 · HealthPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $5,300,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NAT…The Dallas Opera — $2,500,000 · Arts & CultureThe Dallas OperaDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $1,055,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASS…MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $840,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AMERI…BIG THOUGHT — $750,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHTDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $500,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN — $500,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $802,300 · Arts & Culture+12 moreOTR RESOURCES — $3,075,000 · Human ServicesOTR RESOU…The Family Place — $915,000 · Human ServicesThe Famil…JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $450,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE P…CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $450,000 · Human ServicesCHILD PRO…CITYSQUARE — $350,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUAR…+16 more — $737,500 · Human Services+16 moreGOUCHER COLLEGE — $2,000,000 · EducationPaul Quinn College — $500,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLAS — $250,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University — $250,000 · EducationUNITED TO LEARN — $175,000 · Education+11 more — $616,200 · EducationASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $1,120,000 · Public BenefitINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $350,000 · InternationalTIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA — $50,000 · InternationalOrphan Outreach — $15,000 · International+1 more — $10,000 · International
Other$34,333,155Health$14,235,039Arts & Culture$12,247,300Human Services$5,977,500Education$3,791,200Public Benefit$1,120,000International$425,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $10,001,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $5,300,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetOTR RESOURCES — $3,075,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetThe Dallas Opera — $2,500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE — $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $1,600,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $1,120,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation — $1,100,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $1,055,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe Family Place — $915,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $905,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $840,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetBIG THOUGHT — $750,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $500,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPaul Quinn College — $500,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN — $500,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $450,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $450,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $350,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCITYSQUARE — $350,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDallas Museum of Art — $316,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB — $300,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES — $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS — $250,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN — $175,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDCAREGROUP — $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $105,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMOMMIES IN NEED — $100,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIATEXAS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE — $100,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOSQUE MUSEUM — $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREATER DALLAS — $100,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SUICIDE AND CRISIS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS — $95,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT — $85,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTACA INC — $85,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER — $76,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.0% 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 TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds OTR RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
  • Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Texas Women's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds The Family Place ↗
  • Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
  • Who funds Paul Quinn College ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
  • Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
  • Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗

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.

The Dallas FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationCommunities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…Texas Women's Foundat…Hoblitzelle FoundationThe Moody FoundationTheodore and Beulah B…The Rees-Jones Founda…The Addy FoundationHattie Mae Lesley Fou…
The Dallas FoundationTX114.9× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc

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 Perot 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 · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Goucher College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
51report 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 Perot Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Perot 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 256 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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