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William a Solomene Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $938k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS | $1,075,000 |
| ST PHILLIPS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $425,000 |
| UTSW MEDICAL CENTER | $340,000 |
| FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $248,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| ACADEMY OF PHILOSOPHY | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $70,000 |
| ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| CHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK | $60,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NEW OXFORD REVIEW | $40,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 10 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k 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
- UOUniversity of Dallas8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +5%
- ARANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $207k · revenue +3%
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- SPST PHILIP THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHUone grant, 2018 · $100k
- LXLEO XIII CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY &one grant, 2018 · $25k
- SCSPSA CATHOLIC ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Patriot Paws Service Dogs and the most unlike its peers is Free Enterprise Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 63 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 University of Dallas ↗
- Who funds Free Enterprise Institute ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds The Charlemagne Institute ↗
- Who funds New Oxford Review Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CLINIC ↗
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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 William a Solomene Charitable 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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