· Private foundation
The Sarah and Ross Perot Jr Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k13 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $959k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Mark's School of Texas | $2,000,000 |
| Blair House Foundation | $1,250,000 |
| Parks for Downtown Dallas | $1,000,000 |
| Young America's Foundation | $250,000 |
| The Alliance for Choice in Education | $200,000 |
| The Unit Foundation | $125,000 |
| The Salvation Army of North Texas | $100,000 |
| St Philip's School and Community Center | $100,000 |
| Denison Ministries | $100,000 |
| The Salvation Army of North Texas | $100,000 |
| Highland Park Presbyterian Church | $100,000 |
| George W Bush Presidential Center | $84,000 |
| Fellowship of Fathers Foundation | $50,000 |
| Free to Choose Network | $25,000 |
| Library of Congress | $25,000 |
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, $962k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
63 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 10 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k 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
- BHBLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +905%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK3× · 2017–2019 · $1.2M · revenue +105%
Southern Methodist University3× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TATexas A&M Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +48%
ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +40%- NDNORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +10%
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 witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
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 facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Burleson Police 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 40 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 199 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
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 COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MOUNTED WARFARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
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 · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Perot Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The New Covenant Foundation · The Hoglund Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's 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 Sarah and Ross Perot Jr 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.
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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