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The William and Phyllis Snyder Foundation at a glance

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The William and Phyllis Snyder Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$972k
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$463k
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 2020.

Philanthropy$695kHealth$380kInternational$20kReligion$5kEducation$3kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$2kAnimals$500
02FY2020 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k10 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $463k
  • $250k+1 grant · $463k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS$463,235
GRACEWATER FUND$231,618
TEXAS METHODIST FOUNDATION$231,618
THE MAGDALEN HOUSE$25,000
DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB$6,000
CISTERCIAN GENERAL SCHOLRSHIP FUNDS$3,000
ECOLE BILINGUE$2,500
IBUG TODAY$2,500
HELPING HANDS FOR THE BLIIND$2,500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$1,500
LIGHTHOUSE LOUISIANA$1,000
FIRST TEE OF GREATER DALLAS$500
DALLAS DOGRRR$500
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$379
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 (FY20–20, $3k) 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.

area typical 11%HELPING HANDS FOR THE BLIIND: $3k → 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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$156k · 5 repeat orgs$488k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$156k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+115%
+145%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • TM
    THE MAGDALEN HOUSE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +115%
  • RF
    RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST
    3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +83%
  • D2
    DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +192%

Funded once

  • TS
    TWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +145%
  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • VN
    VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +7%
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
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
2
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas Foundation

Supports visiting nurse association of texas, who's mission is to provide care to our community, enhancing health and well being with compassion, dignity and integrity.

Health
3
Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind Inc

To provide employment and education for the adult legally blind and help them to live independently.

—
4
Prevent Blindness Texas

to prevent blindness and preserve sight through education, certified vision screening and training, advocacy, research and community and patient service programs

—
5
Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation

To improve the quality of life and provide inspiration and opportunity for people who are blind and visually impaired.

Human Services
6
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

—
7
Houston Eye Associates Foundation

Houston eye associates foundation is committed to preserving and restoring sight with comprehensive eye care surgeries, medications, and ancillary services for individuals in financial hardship; and supporting education and research…

Unclassified
8
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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9
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to the hungry throughout an eight county service territory in Southeast Texas.

Human Services
10
Meals On Wheels North Central Texas Inc

Organization provides services to senior citizens and the disabled, primarily through home-delivered meals and congregate meals.

Human Services
11
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.

Education
12
Travis Association for the Blind

Empower texans who are blind or visually impaired by developing skills, building careers, and fostering independence.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Twelfth Step Ministry Inc; the most unlike its peers is Essilor Vision Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRACEWATER FUND: $231,618 · OtherGRACEWATER FUNDTEXAS METHODIST FOUNDATION: $231,618 · OtherTEXAS METHODIST FOUNDATIONTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE: $90,000 · OtherTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE+10 more: $57,879 · Other+10 moreCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $463,235 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INCRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $25,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $3,000 · HealthHELPING HANDS FOR THE BLIND: $2,500 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $1,500 · Food & NutritionDallas Dogrrr: $500 · Animals
Other$611,115Philanthropy$463,235Health$28,000Human Services$2,500Food & Nutrition$1,500Animals$500

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 budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $463,235 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE: $90,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS FOR THE BLIND: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Dogrrr: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $379 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…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Addy FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationHillcrest FoundationThe Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Ben E Keith Foundatio…Katherine C Carmody C…Theodore and Beulah B…Hattie Mae Lesley Fou…The Rosewood Foundati…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · The Rosewood 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 William and Phyllis Snyder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William and Phyllis Snyder 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%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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