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Wh Francis Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABILITY CONNECTION | $8,000 |
| FOUNDERS GARDEN CLUB OF DALLAS | $4,200 |
| ROSS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $1,500 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $1,500 |
| HOMER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| KACHEMAK BAY FAMILY PLANNING | $1,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES | $1,000 |
| LEVINE SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $1,000 |
| CKS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HOMER GARDEN CLUB | $500 |
| MLK LIBRARY FRIENDS | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF NATIONAL ARBORETUM | $500 |
| PRO PUBLICA | $500 |
| INDIAN WATERS COUNCIL FRIENDS OF SCOUTING | $500 |
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 (FY17–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- FGFOUNDERS GARDEN CLUB OF DALLAS7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +73%
- NRNexus Recovery Center Incorporated2× · 2017–2018 · $11k · revenue +56%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- BFBONTON FARMSone grant, 2022 · $2k
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 enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
Foster, maintain and improve the morale of nps employees and to promote close ties with current nps members and nps alumni.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
We are a community of cpas and financial professionals cultivating authentic relationships, unique learning experiences, and purposeful advocacy for our future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bevp Birds Eye View Project. 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 39 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 65 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 FOUNDERS GARDEN CLUB OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KACHEMAK BAY FAMILY PLANNING CLINIC ↗
- Who funds John Bunker Sands Wetland Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HOMER PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Sprout Family Services ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN IMPACT ↗
- Who funds ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION COSTA RICA ↗
- Who funds HOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the National Arboretum ↗
- Who funds The CKS Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Homer Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Alaska Humanities Forum · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 Wh Francis 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.
- Key West Film Society Inc — 0% 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.
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