· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SMU MEADOWS SCHOOL OR ARTS | $50,000 |
| FAMILY LEGACY | $44,424 |
| NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE | $25,000 |
| CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $25,000 |
| S M WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MERCY STREET | $25,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR LIFE | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Trinity Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 73%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BRAVELOVE INC ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
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- Who funds BRING THE LIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION PARK CITIES ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Trinity Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Trinity Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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