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The Roach Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $149k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $148,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,267 |
| FLYING T CLUB | $25,750 |
| KINDERFROGS SCHOOL | $25,400 |
| FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $22,350 |
| UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $22,067 |
| UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY | $21,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH | $15,260 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,500 |
| TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCES FOUNDATION | $10,100 |
| HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| KIMBELL ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| FORT WORTH REPORT | $10,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S CENTER | $10,000 |
| TEXAS COWBOY HALL OF FAME | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 15 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +60%
- FWFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $236k · revenue +52%
- FWFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $229k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- UAUNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +79%
- FTFLYING T NIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +613%
- EFEAST FORT WORTH INCone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
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…
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
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…
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
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…
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas and the most unlike its peers is Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 226 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 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COWBOY HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH REPORT ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARY PATTERSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JUSTINS PLACE ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WI Cook Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · R4 Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · The Morris Foundation · Once Upon a Time Foundation
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 Roach Foundation Inc 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.
- The Hope Center for Autism Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.
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