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The Wales Family Foundation at a glance

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The Wales 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.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$822kYouth Development$65kHousing & Shelter$13kEducation$8kCivil Rights$8kHealth$7kRecreation & Sports$6kReligion$350Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$327k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Salesmanship Club of Dallas$6,500
Jordan Spieth Family Foundation$6,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF OF DALLAS: $1k → 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.
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 4 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$68k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
-13%

Still filing today

75%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationReligionCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TG
    TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE
    2× · 2019–2021 · $40k · revenue -45%
  • PS
    PROJECT SHELTER-GENESIS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k
  • CC
    CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • PS
    PROJECT SHELTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +10%
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 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
2
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…

Community Improvement
3
Dallas Citizens Council

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

—
4
Community Growth Foundation

The community growth foundation's mission is to foster healthy communities through programmatic and strategic initiatives in housing and support services. healthy communities are not bifurcated along the socio-economic differences within…

Community Improvement
5
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
6
Salesmanship Club Foundation

Support momentous institute and the salesmanship club of dallas to promote the educational and mental health services for children and their families through an affiliated non-profit operating corporation. the salesmanship club of dallas…

Community Improvement
7
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

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

Religion
8
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
9
Smu Golf Foundation

Support men's and women's intercollegiate golf programs at SMU

Education
10
Gcsaa Foundation

Secure funding and support to strengthen advocacy, education, and research that advances the work of golf course management professionals.

Education
11
Dallas International University

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

Education
12
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $801,770 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+3 more: $14,250 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual …BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS: $25,000 · OtherBIG BROTHER…PROJECT SHELTER-GENESIS: $12,500 · OtherPROJECT SHE…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $1,875 · OtherTRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY: $8,000 · EducationDALLAS CASA: $7,500 · Civil RightsSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $6,500 · Community ImprovementSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $1,200 · Human ServicesMISSION ALIVE: $350 · Religion
Philanthropy$816,020Other$99,375Recreation & Sports$45,000Education$8,000Civil Rights$7,500Community Improvement$6,500Human Services$1,200Religion$350

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $801,770 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS CASA: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SHELTER INC: $6,250 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE JORDAN SPIETH FAMILY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $1,200 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…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 19 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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