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The Rosewood Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO | $3,500 |
| ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION | $2,520 |
| ACHIEVEMENT CENTER OF TEXAS | $100 |
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, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +36% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
126 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 125 since wound down; 2 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- RFRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST3× · 2020–2022 · $216k · revenue +28%
- DCDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $160k · revenue +18%
- HHHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $139k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- TCTHE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $141k · revenue +712%
- FCFAMILY COMPASSone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +5%
- MIMomentous Institutegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +31%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
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.
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.
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 mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
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 mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Andrew Sabin Family 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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
231 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. 231 of the 333 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 RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds John Bunker Sands Wetland Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds PRINCE OF PEACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ESSILOR VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COMPASS ↗
- Who funds CARLTHORP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds DALLAS FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones 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 Rosewood 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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