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The Rita Crocker Clements Foundatio

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$52k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
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 FY20172023.

Education$7.4MHealth$4.0MReligion$3.0MHuman Services$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.2MCommunity Improvement$1.0MPublic Benefit$600kArts & Culture$388kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION$17,795
CRISTO REY DALLAS COLLEGE PREP$15,000
CLEMENTS CENTER AT UT AUSTIN$15,000
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION$3,900
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITIES & SERVICES FOUNDATION: $25k → 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.

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.6M · 15 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
26

Total granted

$8.6M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+35%

Still filing today

67%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • HS
    HOCKADAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2.5M · revenue +44%
  • SP
    ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2017–2019 · $503k · revenue +162%
  • SM
    ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS
    2× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • US
    UT SOUTHWESTERN PETER O'DONNELL JR BRAIN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $3.9M
  • SM
    ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS FOUNDATION OF DALLAS
    one grant, 2018 · $3.0M
  • JC
    JLD CENTENNIAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M

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 Citizens Council

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

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 International University

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

Education
4
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
5
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
6
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.

7
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

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

Religion
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…

9
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…

10
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.

11
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
12
Center for Public Policy Priorities

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…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Mentorship and Develo…Vulnerable Populations Supp…Dallas Arts & Culture Organ…Senior Living CommunitiesHealth System Support Organ…Early Childhood & Elementar…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 59 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr17%3%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr9%14%35–55yr14%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr17%8%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr15%6%20–35yr9%3%35–55yr14%80%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 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
18%
2,694/15,356

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

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UT SOUTHWESTERN PETER O'DONNELL JR BRAIN INSTITUTE — $3,893,610 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERN PETER O'DONNELL JR BRAIN INSTITUTETHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN — $3,500,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS FOUNDATION OF DALLAS — $3,000,000 · OtherST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS FOUNDATION OF DALLASSALVATION ARMY — $1,005,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYJLD CENTENNIAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherJLD CENTENNIAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $502,500 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY INC — $500,000 · Other+21 more — $1,032,900 · Other+21 moreHOCKADAY SCHOOL — $2,467,400 · EducationHOCKADAY SCHOOLSouthern Methodist University — $500,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist …ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS — $200,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF…+3 more — $147,795 · EducationUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $230,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $155,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL — $150,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTexas 2036 — $500,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION — $250,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $85,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHT — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePOETIC — $75,000 · Human ServicesFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Human ServicesMomentous Institute — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM — $75,000 · Youth Development
Other$14,434,010Education$3,315,195Philanthropy$690,000Public Benefit$500,000Arts & Culture$360,000Human Services$150,000Youth Development$150,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL — $2,467,400 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $502,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTexas 2036 — $500,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION — $250,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $230,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS — $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $155,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL — $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY — $101,500 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPOETIC — $75,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetMomentous Institute — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM — $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Place Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIG THOUGHT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $17,795 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Dallas FoundationTX17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Peter P and Bonnie B Smith Foundation · Richard D Bass Foundation · Hamon Charitable Foundation · Hirsch Family Foundation · The Hoglund Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Rita Crocker Clements Foundatio 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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

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    How do I get to The Rita Crocker Clements Foundatio?

    Find your warmest path to The Rita Crocker Clements Foundatio 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 47 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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