Texas Women’s Foundation Awards Nearly $877K to 23 North Texas Nonprofits » Dallas Innovates

Texas Women’s Foundation President and CEO Karen Hughes White [Photo: Texas Women’s Foundation]

Dallas-based Texas Women’s Foundation, along with its donors, giving circle supporters, and philanthropic partners, announced that it has invested $6 million in 2023-2024 to advance its mission of identifying the barriers to women’s economic security and success.

The foundation said it distributed $4.9 million of that total in grants to women- and girl-serving organizations—including $876,540 to 23 nonprofit groups impacting approximately 13,000 women and girls in North Texas.

“As a statewide organization, Texas Women’s Foundation believes in the power of collective philanthropy to catalyze change,” Foundation President and CEO Karen Hughes White said in a statement. “Since 1985, we’ve invested nearly $85 million toward achieving our vision for an equitable society in which women and girls can fully participate. And while we’ve made great progress, Texas women and girls have never needed us more!”

Following are the 23 North Texas nonprofits receiving grants via TXWF’s community grant cycle, listed by location and including their primary focus: 

Dallas County:

• Annie’s Place: Childcare
• Braswell Child Development Center: Childcare
• Community Council of Greater Dallas: Cancer care
• Connections Multiplied Too: Leadership development
• Hopeful Solution: Transitional housing
• ImmSchools: Leadership development
• The Lullaby House: Transitional housing
• Mi Escuelita Preschool: Childcare
• New Friends New Life: Legal services
• Our Friends Place: Transitional housing
• Wholly Informed Sex Ed: Health – sex education
• Young Leaders Strong City: Leadership development

Irving:

• Irving Healthcare Foundation: Women’s health

Richardson:

• Methodist Richardson Medical Center Foundation: Breast health

Denton County:

• Opening Doors International Services: Legal services

North Texas (Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant Counties and surrounding):

• Bridge Breast Network: Breast health
• LiftFund Inc.: Entrepreneurship
• Lone Star Justice Alliance: Just Sentencing Initiative
• Rosa es Rojo: Health & well-being
• SER-Jobs for Progress National Inc.: Entrepreneurship

Tarrant County:

• Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains, Inc.: Math tutoring
• Mercy Clinic of Fort Worth: Women’s health
• Texas Health Resources Foundation: Women’s health

Recipients of the grants said the TXWF funding is important. “The grant has really helped us to increase our effectiveness with wraparound services,” said Alexandrea Crutcher-Horsley, executive director of The Lullaby House.

The foundation said it gave a $40,000 grant to Lullaby House, which provides community care and residential support to pregnant and parenting teens in the foster care system.

It also awarded $40,000 to Mercy Clinic of Fort Worth, which serves the 76104 ZIP code, which has the lowest life expectancy for women in the state, TXWF said.

It gave $15,000 to Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains, which serves two of the lowest-performing schools in Fort Worth ISD, the foundation said. The grant will help expand a pilot math tutoring program for third- and fifth-grade girls at two Title I elementary schools.

TXWF raises funds from a broad base of donors, including individuals, foundations, and corporations. Those resources support more than $6 million in investments each year to advance economic security and leadership for Texas women and girls via research, advocacy, grant-making, and strategic/educational initiatives.

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