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Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc

Nashville, TN · EIN 83-2575728. Reported 62 grants totalling $2,127,590 to 30 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$25,000median grant
$2,127,590granted, 2021-2024
30recipients, as named on its returns
60%of grantees funded again the next year
$14.2Massets, 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. Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc 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 $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
22 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 and Up
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Williamson Medical Center Foundation IncFranklin, TN$500,000112022
Jubilee Park & Community CenterDallas, TX$210,000542024
Hope Farm IncFort Worth, TX$170,000432024
Denton Community Food CenterDenton, TX$133,290642024
Children's Advocacy Center for North Texas IncLewisville, TX$105,000442024
Denton County Friends of the FamilyCorinth, TX$102,500222024
Camp Fire First TexasFort Worth, TX$98,400332024
Blue Sky Therapeutic Riding & RespiteAubre, TX$75,000222024
Safehaven of Tarrant CountyArlington, TX$75,000332024
Community Food BankFort Worth, TX$60,000332024
Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant CountyFort Worth, TX$60,000432023
Refuge for Women North TexasDenton, TX$60,000222024
Bonton FarmsDallas, TX$50,000112023
Clc IncFort Worth, TX$50,000112024
Operation Progress Fort WorthFort Worth, TX$50,000112022
Cumberland Youth & Family ServicesDenton, TX$40,000112024
Ronald Mcdonald House of Fort WorthFort Worth, TX$40,000112024
Center for Transforming LivesFort Worth, TX$35,000222023
The GatehouseDallas, TX$30,000112024
Cafe MomentumDallas, TX$25,000112022
First Baptist Ministry Dba First Refuge MinistriesDenton, TX$25,000112023
Npower IncDallas, TX$25,000112023
Ranch Hands RescueDenton, TX$25,000112022
Operation KindessCarollton, TX$20,000222022
Amputee Blade RunnersNashville, TN$15,400322024
Centerstone Assitstance Network IncFort Worth, TX$15,000112022
Hearts for HomesDenton, TX$13,000222022
Lena Pope Home IncFort Worth, TX$10,000112022
Attitudes & AttireDallas, TX$5,000112024
CASA of Denton CountyDenton, TX$5,000112021

15 of 30 (50%) 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 60%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 50 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
25 grants
Housing & Shelter
7 grants
Youth Development
5 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Education
1 grant
Community Improvement
1 grant
Employment
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202111$199,790$15,000
202217$815,500$15,000
202315$385,500$25,000
202419$726,800$30,000

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.

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc has 20 of them, worth $437,500. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.

OrganizationLocationApproved
Denton County Friends of the FamilyCorinth, TX$52,500
Blue Sky Therapeutic Riding & RespiteAubre, TX$50,000
Clc IncFort Worth, TX$50,000
Children's Advocacy Center for North Texas IncLewisville, TX$50,000
Children's Advocacy Center for North Texas IncLewisville, TX$50,000
Cumberland Youth & Family ServicesDenton, TX$40,000
Ronald Mcdonald House of Fort WorthFort Worth, TX$40,000
Safehaven of Tarrant CountyArlington, TX$25,000
Community Food BankFort Worth, TX$20,000
Denton Community Food CenterDenton, TX$5,500
Denton Community Food CenterDenton, TX$5,500
Denton Community Food CenterLewisville, TX$5,500
Denton Community Food CenterDenton, TX$5,500
Denton Community Food CenterDenton, TX$5,500
Denton Community Food CenterDenton, TX$5,500

Where its money goes

76% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Texas
$1.6M
Tennessee
$515K

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund23 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc22 shared recipientsCommunities Foundation of Texas Inc21 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America16 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust15 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 333 11TH Avenue South Suite 500, Nashville, TN, 37203. 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 83-2575728 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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