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Thomas L Jr & Grace P Downs Scholarship Fund

As set forth in the trust instrument and followed by the trustee, this organization supports southwestern university, texas wesleyan university and southern methodist university.

$260k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2026
3
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$86,516
Largest grant, FY2026
$86,516
Organizations funded a year
3 to 3
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$8.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Thomas L Jr & Grace P Downs Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving3$260k0%
FY20253$212k0%
FY20243$254k0%
FY20233$255k0%
FY20223$261k0%
FY20213$248k0%
FY20203$243k0%
FY20193$243k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.1M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Wesleyan University$777,709100%
Southern Methodist University$777,708100%
Southwestern University$777,608100%

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About Thomas L Jr & Grace P Downs Scholarship Fund

How much does Thomas L Jr & Grace P Downs Scholarship Fund give?
Thomas L Jr & Grace P Downs Scholarship Fund reported 3 grants totaling $259,547 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 3 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Thomas L Jr & Grace P Downs Scholarship Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Thomas L Jr & Grace P Downs Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Texas Wesleyan University ($778k), Southern Methodist University ($778k), Southwestern University ($778k).
Does Thomas L Jr & Grace P Downs Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Thomas L Jr & Grace P Downs Scholarship Fund based?
Thomas L Jr & Grace P Downs Scholarship Fund is based in TX.

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 3 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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