· Private foundation
The Rees-Jones Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k77 grants · $7.3M
- $250k+41 grants · $95M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $40,000,000 |
| International Justice Mission | $7,104,527 |
| Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation | $5,000,000 |
| CURE International Inc | $4,000,000 |
| Circle Ten Council Boy Scouts of America | $3,000,000 |
| CURE International Inc | $2,980,000 |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $2,800,000 |
| Forest Forward | $2,500,000 |
| Mercy Ships | $2,500,000 |
| Living Water International | $2,481,000 |
| International Justice Mission | $2,308,919 |
| Operation Kindness | $1,800,000 |
| George W Bush Foundation The | $1,500,000 |
| World Vision Inc | $1,280,000 |
| ACH Child and Family Services | $1,250,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $36.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of The Rees-Jones Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
212 repeat relationships — 134 still active in FY2024, 78 since wound down; 25 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $51M · revenue +428%
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION5× · 2020–2024 · $31M · revenue +48% · 26% of their budget
Living Water International5× · 2020–2024 · $17M · revenue +10%
Funded once
- FPFAIR PARK FIRSTone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue -16%
- YLYOUNG LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4.4M · revenue +62%
- SMSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.8M · revenue +505%
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.
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
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…
To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.
The mission of Dallas Services is to enable individuals with disabilities and other special needs to achieve their potential by fostering community inclusiveness and independence.
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.
Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Guidance Center and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
291 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. 291 of the 350 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
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
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 CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAIR PARK FIRST ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST FORWARD ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds World Hope International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
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 · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation · Capital for Kids · Elizabeth Toon Charities
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 Rees-Jones 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.