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The Trinity 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $434k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $297k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $500,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $355,000 |
| TRINITY PARK CONSERVANCY | $300,000 |
| CHARLOTTE LOZIER INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE | $110,000 |
| THE KENNEDY CENTER EVENTS | $87,000 |
| SMU MEADOWS SCHOOL OR ARTS | $50,000 |
| BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FAMILY LEGACY | $44,424 |
| NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE | $25,000 |
| THE HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MERCY STREET | $25,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR LIFE | $25,000 |
| S M WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $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 (FY21–24, $351k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 8% of The Trinity Family 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, 78% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 73% — 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.
25 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- MOMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +41%
- CFCOUNCIL FOR LIFE3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +22%
Southern Methodist University3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $150k
- SGSMU-JOHN G TOWER CENTAL MEDAL OF FREEDOMone grant, 2022 · $50k
Kanakuk Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +60%
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 support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
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.
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 56 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 MERCY STREET ↗
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- Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kanakuk Ministries ↗
- Who funds Embrace Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BRAVELOVE INC ↗
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- Who funds BRING THE LIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION PARK CITIES ↗
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 · Servant Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Sarah and Ross Perot Jr Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Kathrine M & James H Milam Family Charities Inc · Covenant Charities Inc · The Tolleson Family Foundation · Cindy and Tony Weber 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 Trinity Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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