· Private foundation
W P & Bulah Luse 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k66 grants · $847k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITYSCAPE SCHOOLS INC | $25,000 |
| HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC | $20,000 |
| FOREST FORWARD | $20,000 |
| KID NET FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE SAMARITAN INN | $20,000 |
| MESQUITE ISD | $20,000 |
| IRVING CARES INC | $20,000 |
| SPCA OF TEXAS | $15,000 |
| ABILITY CONNECTION TEXAS | $15,000 |
| TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCES FDN | $15,000 |
| WHITE ROCK LAKE CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| DALLAS SERVICES | $15,000 |
| CAMP SUMMIT INC | $15,000 |
| VISION TO LEARN | $15,000 |
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 (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 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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k 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
- HHHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC3× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +38%
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +428%
- CACHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HTHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $25k
- LSLONE STAR CASA INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +6%
- TCTHE CONCILIOone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.
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.…
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…
To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.
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…
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Guidance Center and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
219 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNDER 1 ROOF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OUR FRIENDS PLACE ↗
- Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEART HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Irving Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS BARRIOS UNIDOS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Frazier Revitalization Inc ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds DALLAS FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTPATH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDCAREGROUP ↗
- Who funds CITYSCAPE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds PWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
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: 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
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 W P & Bulah Luse 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.