· Private foundation
Wal-Dot Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k19 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINON TRAIL FOUNDATION | $1,265,286 |
| SUSAN SCHWARTZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,265,286 |
| GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $1,265,286 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| JCC DENVERROBERT E LOUP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS-NORTH TEXAS REGION | $15,000 |
| JEWISH CHILDREN REGIONAL SERVICE | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $10,000 |
| OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEBREW UNION COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| VOGEL ALCOVE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $5,000 |
| PEDIPLACE | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M 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
- JCJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE7× · 2017–2023 · $255k · revenue +13%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE7× · 2017–2023 · $175k · revenue +15%
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH7× · 2017–2023 · $160k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- VCVNA CARE NETWORKone grant, 2017 · $20k
- LFLAKE FOREST ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +45%
- KFKIDNEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
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…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Independent and nonpartisan, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute works at the intersection of policy and programs to create equitable systemic changes so all people in Texas, the nation, and the world can obtain the health care they…
To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
Presbyterian exists to ensure all of the patients, members and communities we serve can achieve their best health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pediplace Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pinon Trail Foundation. 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 45 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 39 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 PINON TRAIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds PEDIPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
- Who funds GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas ↗
- Who funds KIDNEYTEXAS 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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wal-Dot 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.