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· Private foundation

The Rees-Jones Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$104M
Granted FY2024still arriving
177
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$40M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

International$97MHealth$76MHuman Services$26MYouth Development$17MEducation$17MAnimals$15MCrime & Legal$7.9MRecreation & Sports$6.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 177 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k77 grants · $7.3M
  • $250k+41 grants · $95M
$75,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$666M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY20–24, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Heroes and Horses Inc: $500k → 10%Patriot PAWS Service Dogs: $300k → 5%Living Water International: $2.9M → 8%Gladney Center for Adoption: $100k → 11%Water4: $250k → 16%Patriot PAWS Service Dogs: $200k → 5%Living Water International: $2.5M → 8%Water4: $130k → 16%Patriot PAWS Service Dogs: $150k → 5%Living Water International: $2.5M → 8%Patriot PAWS Service Dogs: $150k → 5%Living Water International: $1.7M → 8%Living Water International: $1.7M → 8%Living Water International: $1.0M → 8%Living Water International: $1.0M → 8%Living Water International: $900k → 8%Center for Transforming Lives: $500k → 11%Living Water International: $900k → 8%Texas Center For Child And Family Studies: $125k → 10%Living Water International: $600k → 8%Living Water International: $500k → 8%Living Water International: $300k → 8%Living Water International: $300k → 8%ManeGait: $250k → 5%Lena Pope Home Inc: $200k → 11%Behind Every Door Ministries: $1.0M → 14%Lena Pope Home: $200k → 11%Lena Pope: $200k → 11%MHMR Foundation: $150k → 11%Parenting Center The: $125k → 11%The Parenting Center: $125k → 11%Jewish Family Service of Dallas Inc: $800k → 14%Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas Inc: $500k → 14%Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas Incorporated: $450k → 14%Behind Every Door Ministries: $250k → 14%Canine Companions: $250k → 14%Canine Companions: $200k → 14%OurCalling Inc: $1.0M → 14%Jubilee Park and Community Center: $250k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $500k → 14%Family Place Inc: $150k → 14%Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: $500k → 14%Dallas Children's Advocacy Center: $500k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas: $3.0M → 14%Buckner Children and Family Services: $370k → 14%Buckner Children and Family Services: $250k → 14%Buckner Children and Family Services: $185k → 14%Buckner Children and Family Services: $124k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of The Rees-Jones Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 65%.

The Rees-Jones Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 30% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$254M · 212 repeat orgs$31M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

212 repeat relationships: 135 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

212
108

Total granted

$254M
$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+15%

Still filing today

88%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $51M · revenue +428%
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $31M · revenue +48% · 26% of their budget
  • Living Water International
    5× · 2020–2024 · $17M · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • FP
    FAIR PARK FIRST
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +1%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4.4M · revenue +62%
  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.8M · revenue +505%
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
Safe City Commission

Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.

Crime & Legal
2
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
3
Tip of Texas Family Outreach Inc

To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

—
4
UnBound North Texas

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.

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5
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
6
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
7
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
8
Dallas Services

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.

—
9
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

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…

Employment
10
Dallas International University

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

Education
11
Dallas Center Inc

To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.

Human Services
12
Texans Care for Children Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Guidance Center; 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.
05the grantee network

292 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 292 of the 349 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
287/292
Grantees still filing
202/292
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $30,581,826 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSIONCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $22,155,000 · InternationalCURE INTERNATIONAL INCHOPE WALKS INC: $7,527,259 · InternationalHOPE WALKS INCMercy Ships International: $7,500,000 · InternationalMercy Ships InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $4,600,000 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL A…WORLD VISION INC: $3,000,000 · International+5 more: $4,167,200 · InternationalCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $51,450,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER …TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $6,000,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPIT…PARKLAND FOUNDATION: $5,700,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION+10 more: $3,666,100 · Health+10 moreLiving Water International: $16,765,643 · Human ServicesLiving Water I…YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $3,060,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROP…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1,750,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $1,339,863 · Human Services+34 more: $14,207,364 · Human Services+34 moreACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5,430,000 · OtherACH CHILD AND FAMILY SE…Dallas Coalition of Spay Neuter Providers - Dallas Foundation: $3,000,325 · OtherSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · OtherSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC…FOREST FORWARD: $2,500,000 · OtherFAIR PARK FIRST: $5,000,000 · OtherFAIR PARK FIRSTALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,200,000 · Other+80 more: $37,029,495 · Other+80 moreBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $4,816,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $4,370,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute: $1,345,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $1,300,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $600,000 · Youth Development+13 more: $3,506,600 · Youth DevelopmentTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,750,000 · EducationKING'S ACADEMY: $650,000 · EducationLUMIN EDUCATION: $650,000 · EducationCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY: $638,400 · EducationEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $625,000 · Education+16 more: $3,936,000 · EducationOPERATION KINDNESS: $6,235,000 · AnimalsSPCA of Texas: $1,575,000 · AnimalsLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $820,000 · AnimalsSAVING HOPE FOUNDATION: $600,000 · AnimalsRanch Hands Rescue: $550,000 · AnimalsSPAY NEUTER NETWORK: $526,000 · Animals+5 more: $1,010,000 · Animals
International$79,531,285Health$66,816,100Human Services$37,122,870Other$60,159,820Youth Development$16,937,600Education$13,249,400Animals$11,316,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $51,450,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $30,581,826 over 5y, 26% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $22,155,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetLiving Water International: $16,765,643 over 5y, 15% of budgetHOPE WALKS INC: $7,527,259 over 5y, 91% of budgetMercy Ships International: $7,500,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $6,235,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $6,000,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $5,700,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5,430,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetFAIR PARK FIRST: $5,000,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $4,816,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $4,600,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $4,370,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $3,060,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $3,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST FORWARD: $2,500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,200,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $1,915,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $1,800,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,750,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1,750,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,583,400 over 5y, 15% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $1,575,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY: $1,525,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetMomentous Institute: $1,345,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $1,339,863 over 4y, 18% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $1,300,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $1,300,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL: $1,160,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $1,151,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWorld Hope International Inc: $1,150,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $1,092,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $1,050,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $1,050,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,000,764 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRedeemer City To City: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $1,000,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS: $990,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $967,500 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $940,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $850,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $820,000 over 4y, 8.1% 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.

The Dallas FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Hillcrest FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Communities Foundatio…The Moody FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Hoblitzelle FoundationGil and Dody Weaver F…The Ninnie L Baird Fo…Capital for KidsElizabeth Toon Charit…
The Dallas FoundationTX147.8× affinity122 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rees-Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rees-Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 349 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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