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The Tolleson Family Foundation at a glance

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The Tolleson Family 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.

$670k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.7MReligion$1.2MPhilanthropy$637kAnimals$375kHealth$349kHuman Services$200kInternational$63kEmployment$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$16,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$400,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS$50,000
HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$30,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$25,000
ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
DALLAS PETS ALIVE$25,000
THE SENIOR SOURCE$20,000
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$16,500
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$15,000
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$6,500
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$2,250
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DALLAS$2,000
CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER$1,000
LA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 8%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%SALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLD OF DALLAS INC: $5k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $5k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $1k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $1k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $1k → 14%SM WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%TO BE LIKE ME: $5k → 14%SAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $10k → 14%SAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
PA
CA
MO
MD
AR
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 26 repeat orgs$437k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
34

Total granted

$3.8M
$436k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+40%

Still filing today

77%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Southern Methodist University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +57%
  • DP
    DALLAS PETS ALIVE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $375k · revenue +259%
  • TE
    THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -83%
  • TJ
    TD JAKES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +740%
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dallas County Medical Society

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.

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2
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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3
Dallas College Foundation Inc

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.

Education
4
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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5
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
6
Methodist Richardson Medical Center Foundation

To build and maintain donor relationships in order to raise, manage, and distribute funds to assist Methodist Health System in acquiring state-of-the-art technology, attracting excellent medical staff, and supporting vital hospital…

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7
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
8
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
9
Dallas Physician Medical Services for Children Inc

Provide dental, general pediatric, and pediatric sub-specialty services, including, but not limited to emergency department coverage, inpatient coverage, orthopedic surgery, and craniofacial orthodontics regardless of payor source or…

Health
10
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
11
Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health
12
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Every Souls Important Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
36/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1,150,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $200,000 · OtherTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INCCRISTO REY DALLAS COLLEGE PREP: $67,000 · OtherSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $64,100 · Other+27 more: $345,636 · Other+27 moreSouthern Methodist University: $1,044,772 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDAT…+4 more: $62,000 · EducationNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $400,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILAN…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $132,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF M…THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY L…+4 more: $16,100 · PhilanthropyDALLAS PETS ALIVE: $375,000 · AnimalsDALLAS PE…Baylor Health Care System Foundation: $152,750 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $77,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · HealthWOMENS AUXILIARY TO THE CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $11,500 · HealthBIND- Brain Injury Network of Dallas: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $1,600 · HealthMOMMIES IN NEED: $75,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $29,500 · Human ServicesSAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $20,000 · Human ServicesLiving Water International: $15,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services+5 more: $23,000 · Human ServicesTD JAKES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Employment
Other$1,826,736Education$1,246,772Philanthropy$648,100Animals$375,000Health$278,350Human Services$172,500Employment$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern Methodist University: $1,044,772 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $400,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS PETS ALIVE: $375,000 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $152,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $132,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $77,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOMMIES IN NEED: $75,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $64,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTD JAKES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS INC: $47,131 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $29,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Dallas Inc: $19,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLiving Water International: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS AUXILIARY TO THE CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $11,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCAPITAL FOR KIDS: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPat & Emmitt Smith Charities: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTO BE LIKE ME: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $4,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISNER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEVERY SOULS IMPORTANT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Pauline and Austi…Hegi Family FoundationSapphire Foundation I…Perkins-Prothro Found…The Moody FoundationThe David B Miller Fa…The Hoglund FoundationThe Perot FoundationCommunity Foundation …
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX35.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Pauline and Austin Neuhoff Foundation · Hegi Family Foundation · Sapphire Foundation Inc · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The David B Miller Family Foundation · The Hoglund Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tolleson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tolleson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 63 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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