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W P & Bulah Luse Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

W P & Bulah Luse Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$900k
Granted FY2025still arriving
76
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$957kHealth$885kEducation$583kHousing & Shelter$360kCrime & Legal$250kYouth Development$250kFood & Nutrition$230kCommunity Improvement$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k66 grants · $847k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITYSCAPE SCHOOLS INC$25,000
THE SAMARITAN INN$20,000
DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER$20,000
MESQUITE ISD$20,000
FOREST FORWARD$20,000
HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC$20,000
IRVING CARES INC$20,000
KID NET FOUNDATION$20,000
VISION TO LEARN$15,000
EQUEST$15,000
THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
DALLAS AREA HABITAT FOR$15,000
UNDER 1 ROOF$15,000
TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCES FDN$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $757k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS: $15k → 5%CITY HOUSE: $10k → 5%HOPE'S DOOR: $10k → 5%FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $20k → 5%FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $10k → 5%ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%HEART OF THE CITY: $12k → 8%NONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $10k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $10k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $10k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $10k → 5%COMMUNITY DOES IT: $10k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE INC: $10k → 14%HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH: $10k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $10k → 14%DALLAS AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 14%INCARNATION PLACE INC: $10k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORP: $10k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $10k → 14%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $10k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $10k → 14%EVERY AVENUE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE COUNSELING PLACE: $10k → 14%WESLEY RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 14%WESLEY RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%KID NET FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $10k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $10k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $10k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $20k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $20k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $15k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY DOES IT: $10k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $20k → 14%PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM: $10k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $25k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $20k → 14%SOUTHERN DALLAS LINK INC: $15k → 14%UNDER 1 ROOF: $15k → 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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 121 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

121 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
126

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

84%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • HH
    HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +428%
  • SL
    SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • HT
    HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • TC
    THE CONCILIO
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • LS
    LONE STAR CASA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +6%
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
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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2
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…

Employment
3
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
4
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
5
Elevate North Texas

Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming and affirming environment for youth 18-24 experiencing homelessness providing short-term housing and case management. Elevate North Texas addresses youth homelessness from two angles: a hotel program…

Health
6
Dallas International University

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

Education
7
Dallas Center Inc

To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.

Human Services
8
Dallas County Family Resource Center

The mission of Dallas County Family Resource Center is to provide programs to improve the quality of resources and well-being of the children and families in the community by intake, assessment, and referral of those in need to available…

Human Services
9
COMMIT2DALLAS

Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher…

Education
10
The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology

Our mission is to provide accessible high-quality counseling, training, psychological evaluations, and educational testing that equip our clients to grow through lifes changes and challenges.

Health
11
Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc

Dallas area habitat for humanity, inc. is a nondenominational christian not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to sponsor specific projects in habitat development for the dallas, texas area. modest but adequate housing, new or…

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12
Operation Care International Inc

Operation care international exists to glorify god. in obedience to his will, we connect impoverished children and the homeless to jesus christ providing for their physical needs through god's provision both at home and abroad.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Guidance Center; the most unlike its peers is Ennis Public Theatre. 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

219 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 219 of the 279 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)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
211/219
Grantees still filing
130/219
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+92 more: $1,590,000 · Other+92 moreGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $45,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & …SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OU…UNDER 1 ROOF DALLAS: $35,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $35,000 · Human ServicesHEART HOUSE: $30,000 · Human ServicesFRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesIrving Cares Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $30,000 · Human Services+32 more: $487,000 · Human Services+32 moreHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · HealthHEALING HANDS …CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MED…Texas Health Resources Foundation: $25,000 · HealthTexas Health R…MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,000 · HealthMOSAIC FAMILY …LIGHTPATH HEALTH: $25,000 · HealthLIGHTPATH HEAL…AGAPE CLINIC: $25,000 · HealthAGAPE CLINICPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUND…COMMONGOOD MEDICAL: $20,000 · HealthRAINBOW DAYS INC: $20,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $20,000 · HealthNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $20,000 · Health+15 more: $165,000 · Health+15 moreLUMIN EDUCATION: $30,000 · EducationWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationWILKINSON CENTER: $25,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $20,000 · EducationLIFESCHOOL OF DALLAS: $20,000 · EducationCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationUNITED TO LEARN: $20,000 · EducationBEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $15,000 · EducationCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationMOUNT ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $10,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University: $10,000 · EducationEDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationKIPP Texas Inc: $10,000 · EducationCATCH UP & READ INC: $10,000 · EducationLIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE: $10,000 · EducationDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME POINT: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE HOUSE INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterSOULS HARBOR INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterAGAPE RESOURCE & ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCITYSCAPE SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP SUMMIT INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADERS 2 LEADERS: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERCY STREET: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY COMPASS: $20,000 · Crime & LegalTEXAS LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 · Crime & LegalONE MAN'S TREASURE: $15,000 · Crime & LegalEXODUS MINISTRIES: $15,000 · Crime & LegalNOMI NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,590,000Human Services$827,000Health$465,000Education$285,000Housing & Shelter$165,000Youth Development$165,000Crime & Legal$120,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNDER 1 ROOF DALLAS: $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOUR FRIENDS PLACE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHEART HOUSE: $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOS BARRIOS UNIDOS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIrving Cares Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Family Place: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITYSCAPE SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFrazier Revitalization Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetESSILOR VISION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDCAREGROUP: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP SUMMIT INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEQUEST: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTPATH HEALTH: $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAGAPE CLINIC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY AVENUE: $20,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMOMMIES IN NEED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

Hillcrest FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…The Dallas FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Hoblitzelle FoundationCommunities Foundatio…The Rees-Jones Founda…Katherine C Carmody C…Hattie Mae Lesley Fou…The Moody FoundationThe Addy FoundationThe Perot Foundation
Hillcrest FoundationTX229.2× affinity116 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Perot 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 W P & Bulah Luse Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W P & Bulah Luse Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 279 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home