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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.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 40
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$941k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Sidwell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthReligionEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$68k25%
FY202312$57k33%
FY20225$21k0%
FY202112$25k33%
FY20209$18k33%
FY201940$911k78%
FY201824$66k54%
FY201713$53kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$290kHuman Services$185kHealth$137kHousing & Shelter$126kEducation$114kInternational$83kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kCivil Rights$55kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
CA
MO
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Samaritan's Purse$82,00030%
Christ Chapel Bible Church$61,5003n/a
Dallas Theological Seminary$60,00030%
East-West Ministries International$50,0001n/a
Warren Culwell Ministry Inc$50,000126%
Hope Farm Inc$32,50032%
Presbyterian Home for Children$32,50031%
The Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County$30,00010%
Rivertree Academy$30,00011%
The Amarillo College Foundation$28,00040%
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($494k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Sidwell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSamaritan's Purse: $82,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWarren Culwell Ministry Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetHope Farm Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPresbyterian Home for Children: $32,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRivertree Academy: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Amarillo College Foundation: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Plains Food Bank: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHeal the City Free Clinic: $21,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEveline's Sunshine Cottage: $21,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFort Worth Crisis Pregnancy Center: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTexas Tech Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOpportunity School Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCal Farley's Boys Ranch: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHill Country Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDowntown Women's Center Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCitadelle Art Foundation: $7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Hope and Healing Place Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTurn Center: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gladney Center for Adoption: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Terrace Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWindow on a Wider World Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGolden Spread Council Inc 562 of the Boy Scouts of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Mays FoundationTX30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to The Sidwell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sidwell Foundation 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.

About The Sidwell Foundation

How much does The Sidwell Foundation give?
The Sidwell Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Sidwell Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Human Services (15%), Health (11%).
Who are The Sidwell Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Samaritan's Purse ($82k), Christ Chapel Bible Church ($62k), Dallas Theological Seminary ($60k).
Does The Sidwell Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sidwell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sidwell Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mays Foundation, Kimble Foundation Trust, Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation.
Where is The Sidwell Foundation based?
The Sidwell Foundation is based in TX.

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 71 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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