· Private foundation
Trial Lawyers Fdn Youth Ed
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - CORPUS CHRISTI | $11,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE | $8,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $7,700 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $4,400 |
| DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $4,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD | $4,400 |
| FRIENDS UNIVERSITY | $2,200 |
| ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO | $2,200 |
| LAMAR UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,200 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $2,200 |
| SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,200 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $2,200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- DMDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $117k · revenue +221%
- SMSt Mary's University4× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +24%
- CBCOASTAL BEND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- TATEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +117%
- TATEXAS AM UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TATEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE STATIONone grant, 2024 · $9k
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 ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
The foundation supports west texas a&m university, an institution of higher education, and the students of wtamu by receiving and administering gifts from the public.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
As a community of faith and learning, texas lutheran university empowers a diverse student body through an education centered on the liberal arts and professional programs. see schedule o for continuation of mission statement.
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
To receive contributions by means of donations, gifts, and bequests and to expend such funds for the advancement of the literary, scientific, and other educational endeavors of Midwestern State University, a tax exempt institution of…
Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…
The university of north texas foundation, inc. serves as unt's strategic partner in managing and growing private assets for support of the university's mission. untf's continuity, flexibility, and creative solutions contribute to fully…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Texas Christian University. 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 50 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 53 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.
- Who funds DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Mary's University ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jarvis Christian University ↗
- Who funds GRACELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY - SAN MARCOS RESEARCH FOUNDATION % DARRYL BORGONAH ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds Lamar University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LASSEN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAM HOUSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FINLANDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Laredo College Education Foundation ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Texas Higher Education Foundation · Deloitte Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Texas Instruments Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Trial Lawyers Fdn Youth Ed 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.
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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