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The Rita Crocker Clements Foundatio at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureMomentous Institute: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOETIC: $75,000 · Human ServicesFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human Services
Other$14,434,010Education$3,315,195Philanthropy$690,000Public Benefit$500,000Arts & Culture$360,000Youth Development$150,000Human Services$150,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTexas 2036: $500,000 over 1y, 6.9% 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 budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $150,000 over 3y, 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 budgetMomentous Institute: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPOETIC: $75,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Family Place Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $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
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 FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Rees-Jones Founda…Peter P and Bonnie B …Richard D Bass Founda…Hamon Charitable Foun…Hirsch Family Foundat…The Hoglund FoundationThe Eugene McDermott …Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…
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

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 Rita Crocker Clements Foundatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rita Crocker Clements Foundatio. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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