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Virginia Clay Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $150,000 |
| TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCES FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| COOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| TCU NEELEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $100,000 |
| TCU HARRIS COLLEGE OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES | $100,000 |
| KIMBELL ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSIONS OF TARRANT CITY | $50,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FW | $50,000 |
| DAY RESOURCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| MODERN ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $50,000 |
| TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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 +64% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- SCSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +88%
- THTexas Health Resources Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $900k · revenue +64%
- TATarrant Area Food Bank8× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $150k
- ASAll Saints Health Foundation Baylor Scott & Whiteone grant, 2021 · $100k
- TNTHE NET FW INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +449%
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.
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
The primary mission or purpose of methodist health system is to serve people in defined service areas by meeting their health needs effectively and in a manner that reflects a "commitment to the christian concepts of life and learning" as…
Youth and family alliance (dba lifeworks) is a fearless advocate for youth and young adults pursuing a life they love and a stable future for themselves and their families. we strive to break cycles of instability by providing support and…
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Lone star circle of care provides exceptional and accessible patient centered healthcare for our texas neighbors, focusing on the underserved.
Youth center of texas, inc mission is to provide the holistic support needed to restore each survivor's (female identifying survivors of child sex trafficking and commercial exploitation, ages 18-22 and their babies) growth into a life…
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The mission of safehaven of tarrant county is to end domestic violence through safety, support, prevention and social change.
Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…
Covenant house texas shelters, protects, and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, and sexually exploited youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center of Tarrant County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rivertree Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 38 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 SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds THE NET FW INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LADDER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ENVOY HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · United Way of Tarrant County · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Ken W Davis Foundation · Martha Sue Parr Trust Xxxxx6005
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 Virginia Clay Foundation 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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