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Rosemary Haggar Vaughan

Dallas, TX · EIN 75-2577797. Reported 171 grants totalling $1,223,500 to 84 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$1,223,500granted, 2021-2024
84organizations funded
67%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,017,938assets, 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. Rosemary Haggar Vaughan 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $7,500; the smallest was $1,500 and the largest $120,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
40 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
94 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
32 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

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
Ursuline AcademyDallas, TX$155,000442024
Christ the King Catholic ChurchDallas, TX$120,000112024
Wipe Out Kids CancerDallas, TX$45,000442024
Bruce Foote Memorial ScholarshipDallas, TX$40,000442024
Cancer Support CommunityDallas, TX$40,000442024
Cistercian Preparatory SchoolIrving, TX$40,000332024
Southwestern Diabetic FoundationGainesville, TX$40,000442024
Montserrat Jesuit Retreat HouseLake Dallas, TX$30,000332023
St Jude Childrens Research HospitalIrving, TX$30,000442024
Fisher HouseSan Antonio, TX$24,000442024
Dallas Black Dance TheatreDallas, TX$22,500442024
Notre Dame of Dallas SchoolDallas, TX$21,000442024
Austin Street ShelterDallas, TX$20,000442024
Discalced Carmelite Nuns Monastery of the Most Holy TrinityArlington, TX$20,000442024
Men of NehemiahDallas, TX$20,000442024
North Texas Food BankPlano, TX$20,000442024
Oasis CenterDallas, TX$20,000442024
Peter's PlaceRadnor, PA$20,000442024
The Halo InitiativeRichardson, TX$20,000222023
VnaDallas, TX$20,000442024
Holy Trinity SeminaryIrving, TX$15,000332024
Our Lady of Perpetual HelpDallas, TX$15,000332024
ScholarshotDallas, TX$15,000332023
Union Gospel MissionDallas, TX$15,000222022
Friends of the ArboretumDallas, TX$14,000442024
Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids With CancerDallas, TX$12,000442024
EquestDallas, TX$12,000442024
Semones Family YMCADallas, TX$12,000442024
Cattle Baron's BallDallas, TX$10,500112023
Adventure & VictoryDallas, TX$10,000112022
AFTER8 to EducateDallas, TX$10,000112022
Blanco County Emergency ServicesBlanco, TX$10,000112022
Bridges to LifeArlington, TX$10,000112024
Cristo Rey DallasDallas, TX$10,000112021
Franciscan Foundation for the HolyDallas, TX$10,000222024
Incarnation PlaceDallas, TX$10,000112021
My PossibilitiesPlano, TX$10,000112022
New Friends New LifeDallas, TX$10,000112021
North Texas Wildlife CenterDallas, TX$10,000222024
Ronald Mcdonald HouseDallas, TX$10,000112023
TacaDallas, TX$10,000222022
Texas Nf FoundationDallas, TX$10,000222023
The Pines Catholic CampAddison, TX$10,000222022
In the City for GoodDallas, TX$8,000112023
Smu Catholic Campus MinistryDallas, TX$8,000442024
Dme ExchangeGarland, TX$7,500222022
Dallas Junior ForumDallas, TX$6,000442024
Nexus Recovery CenterDallas, TX$6,000332024
Aberg Center for LiteracyDallas, TX$5,000222022
Adaptive TrainingCarrollton, TX$5,000112021
All Saints Capital CampaignDallas, TX$5,000112024
C5TEXASDallas, TX$5,000112024
Community Does ItDallas, TX$5,000112024
Council for LifeDallas, TX$5,000112023
Dallas Symphony OrchestraDallas, TX$5,000112024
Envision DallasDallas, TX$5,000112024
Exodus MinistriesDallas, TX$5,000112022
Girls IncDallas, TX$5,000112021
Hope Supply CompanyDallas, TX$5,000112022
Junior Achievement of DallasRichardson, TX$5,000112021
Loreto HouseDenton, TX$5,000112024
Meadows School for the Arts Southern Methodist UniversityDallas, TX$5,000112021
Mosaic Family ServicesDallas, TX$5,000112024
Network for Teaching EntrepreneurshSouthlake, TX$5,000112023
One Tribe FoundationDallas, TX$5,000112022
Pastoral Reflections InstituteDallas, TX$5,000112023
Sixth Floor MuseumDallas, TX$5,000112021
Soul's HarborDallas, TX$5,000112024
Texas Neurofibromatosis FoundationIrving, TX$5,000112021
The Catholic FoundationDallas, TX$5,000112022
The Family PlaceDallas, TX$5,000112021
The Highlands SchoolIrving, TX$5,000112023
The Way Back HouseDallas, TX$5,000112021
Vogel AlcoveDallas, TX$5,000112023
AIDS Interfaith NetworkDallas, TX$3,500112022
Braswell Child Development CenterDallas, TX$3,500112022
Well CommunityDallas, TX$3,500112022
Brighter TomorrowsIrving, TX$3,000112022
Legal Hospice of DallasDallas, TX$3,000112023
Rise AdventuresIrving, TX$3,000112022
Trinity Restoration MinistriesDallas, TX$3,000112021
All Saints Catholic Church Vision Food Share ProgramDallas, TX$2,500112022
Promise Hill ProjectDallas, TX$2,500112023
Rainbow DaysDallas, TX$2,500112024

37 of 84 (44%) 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 67%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 72 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
23 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Mental Health
5 grants
Recreation & Sports
5 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Environment
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202143$307,000$5,000
202247$301,000$5,000
202342$291,500$5,000
202439$324,000$5,000

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.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 98% 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
$1.2M
Pennsylvania
$20K

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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 $5,000. 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 Rosemary Haggar Vaughan'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: 7339 Hill Forest Drive, Dallas, TX, 75230. 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 75-2577797 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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