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Dallas-Fort Worth Good Fellows

Southlake, TX · EIN 82-2017161. Reported 71 grants totalling $542,795 to 48 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,735median grant
$542,795granted, 2021-2024
48organizations funded
41%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,367,680assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Dallas-Fort Worth Good Fellows did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,735. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $113 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
9 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
30 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
14 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Tiger Athletic FoundationBaton Rouge, LA$114,200442024
Good Shepard Catholic CommunitiesColleyville, TX$114,000442024
The Educational Foundation IncChapel Hill, NC$60,000332024
Ou FoundationNorman, OK$31,000332024
American Red CrossBoone, IA$25,000332023
Catholic Charities of Fort WorthFort Worth, TX$22,500222022
Ole Miss Athletic FoundationOxford, MS$15,524112024
Autism Treatment CenterDallas, TX$15,000222022
Our CallingDallas, TX$15,000222024
Youth WorldDallas, TX$12,000212021
Associated Industries of TexasSouthlake, TX$10,000112021
Dallas Td ClubDallas, TX$10,000112024
Vida Valiente FoundationSan Clemente, CA$9,500112023
LSU Athletic DepartmentBaton Rouge, LA$9,200112021
Arlington Chamber FoundationArlington, TX$7,500112023
Clubcorp Charities IncDallas, TX$6,009112023
Women's Non-Profit AlliancePlano, TX$6,000222024
American Cancer SocietyFort Worth, TX$5,000112021
American Heart AssociationDallas, TX$5,000112024
Annual Diocesan AppealFort Worth, TX$5,000222024
Christ the King ParishBaton Rouge, LA$5,000112021
University of Oklahoma FoundationNorman, OK$3,600112022
Wreaths Across AmericaKingwood, TX$3,261332024
Tunnel to Tower FoundationStaten Island, NY$3,050222024
Ou AthleticsNorman, OK$2,735112022
Hospice of MidlandMidland, TX$2,583112024
Trinity Christian AcademyCedar Hill, TX$2,500112021
American Cancer SocietyHagerstown, MD$2,000112024
Dragon ClubSouthlake, TX$2,000112022
St Jude Children's HospitalMemphis, TN$2,000112024
GraceGrapevine, TX$1,500112022
Prayer TownPrayer Town, TX$1,500112021
Southlake KiwanisSouthlake, TX$1,440222023
United WayFort Worth, TX$1,285222023
Carroll Athletic Booster ClubSouthlake, TX$1,000112021
Dallas Symphony OrchestraDallas, TX$1,000112024
Doug Flutie Foundation for AutismWaltham, MA$1,000112024
Emerald Belles Booster ClubSouthlake, TX$1,000112023
Kimball Art MuseumFort Worth, TX$1,000112024
LSU Meals for KidsBaton Rouge, LA$1,000112024
Sisters of St MaryFort Worth, TX$1,000112024
St Patricks CathedralNew York, NY$1,000112021
Young Life ArlingtonArlington, TX$1,000112021
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic ChurchLafayette, LA$500112023
St Bernard Catholic ChurchBreaux Bridge, LA$500112023
St Pius X Catholic ChurchLafayette, LA$500112023
GivebutterWilmington, DE$295112024
Dragons CareSouthlake, TX$113112024

14 of 48 (29%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 41%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 73 grants to individuals totalling $127,535 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
14 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Religion
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Community Improvement
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202117$139,250$5,000
202215$115,200$2,735
202317$139,069$3,000
202422$149,276$2,250

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 47% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Texas
$255K
Louisiana
$131K
North Carolina
$60K
Oklahoma
$37K
Iowa
$25K
Mississippi
$16K
California
$10K
New York
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,735. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Dallas-Fort Worth Good Fellows's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: P O Box 92777, Southlake, TX, 76092. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 82-2017161 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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