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The Thomas 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 $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $495k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION THE | $30,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL LIVING STREAMS | $25,000 |
| THRIVE WOMEN'S CLINIC | $25,000 |
| MASTERMEDIA MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| HARVESTERS REACHING THE NATIONS | $25,000 |
| BRAVELOVE INC | $20,000 |
| DALLAS LIFE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DISCIPLES MAKING DISCIPLES MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| PRESTONWOOD PREGNANCY CENTER | $10,000 |
| BROTHER BILL'S HELPING HAND | $10,000 |
| WELL COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN INN | $10,000 |
| E3PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| BELLA HOUSE | $10,000 |
| HHM HEALTHCARE | $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, $655k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Thomas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +32% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DLDALLAS LIFE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $351k · revenue +87%
- ILInternational Living Streams8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +208%
- MMMASTERMEDIA MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +32% · 68% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCARROLLTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- HSHOPE SUPPLY CO (CAPT HOPE'S KIDS)one grant, 2017 · $10k
- VRVICTIMS RELIEF MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $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.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Post-abortive and family crisis counseling via small groups, email, and publications; focus is to bring healing and forgiveness in a supportive, Christ-centered environment.
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
Christ-centered organization dedicated to empowering women with the truth and hope they need to choose life. develop and distribution of informational and educational materials.
The mission of First Refuge Ministries is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ by offering essential services to those in need within our community. Our belief is that every person has worth and value since they are created by God. Our goal…
Disciple and encourage women in following Jesus.
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…
Crossroads Pregnancy Care is a Christ-centered and life-affirming ministry, providing hope, help, and healing to families affected by unplanned pregnancies or hurting from past abortions, and promoting sexual integrity. Social services…
To share the truth and love of Jesus Christ in conjunction with a ministry to those facing pregnancy related issues: a pregnant womens' counseling program, a free pregnancy testing program, a maternity support (baby supplies, clothing and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healing Hands Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beyond Ordinary Women Ministries. 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 29 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 78 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 DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds International Living Streams ↗
- Who funds MASTERMEDIA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds BRAVELOVE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INN INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Christian Works For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE AT LAST ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEED HIM NATIONAL MEDIA OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SUPPLY CO ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds LEADER FORMATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Attitudes & Attire ↗
- Who funds BEYOND ORDINARY WOMEN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WITNESS BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION 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 · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Research Educational Foundation Inc · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · The Dallas Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Episcopal Health Foundation Of Dallas · Council for Life · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Florence 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 Thomas 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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