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The Sidwell 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $25,000 |
| AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| LAURA BUSH INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE | $4,000 |
| TURN CENTER | $4,000 |
| HEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC | $4,000 |
| THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY | $3,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER | $3,000 |
| PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER | $2,000 |
| CITADELLE ART FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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 +68% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2017–2019 · $82k · revenue +134%
- DTDallas Theological Seminary3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +81%
- HFHOPE FARM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $33k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- EMEast-West Ministries Internationalone grant, 2019 · $50k
- WCWARREN CULWELL MINISTRY INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -15% · 26% of their budget
- NCNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATone grant, 2019 · $35k
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.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Refuge city provides safe places for children in dallas / ft. worth (dfw) who have been sex trafficked or sexually exploited to achieve restoration, education, and reintegration in a family-focused environment through the love of jesus…
Fort worth christian school is a christ-centered community where every child is loved, valued, taught excellence in and out of the classroom, and empowered by a biblical worldview for a lifetime of faith and service.
Mercy clinic exists to show christ's love and compassion by providing free health care, spiritual care, and assistance in self-help to the underserved population in tarrant county, texas.
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
The mission of trinity school is to be a college preparatory community that provides a nurturing environment to enrich the mind, strengthen the body, enliven the soul, and inspire servant leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hope and Healing Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citadelle Art Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 71 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.
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- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Christian Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER 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: Mays Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Bruckner Family Foundation Inc · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Bradley Family Charitable Trust · William & Louise Mullins Foundation · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc
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 Sidwell 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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