Grant Impact Stories

Impact stories explain how charitable giving has helped local organizations and changed lives in our community and beyond.

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Little House in the Piney Woods: Making Philanthropic History

Millard’s Crossing is a mini-city filled with 19th century homes in Nacogdoches

Millard’s Crossing – 1982 Born and raised in Nacogdoches, Lera Millard Thomas married a lawyer-turned-congressman and became a congresswoman herself in 1965. When her term ended, she returned to her birthplace and began to restore old homes and antiquities in the town.

Christmas Coach: In the Vanguard of Giving

Caruth gives Children’s Medical Center a van in lieu of gifts to honor his customers

Children’s Medical Center Van – 1975 Children’s Medical Center was the recipient of a new passenger van made possible by the W.W. Caruth Jr. Foundation Fund of the Dallas Community Chest Trust Fund.

Intensive Love for Children: Newborn Philanthropy

Blanche Swanzy Lange Special Care Newborn Nursery saves lives thanks to fund at CFT

Blanche Swanzy Lange Special Care Newborn Nursery – 1975 Blanche Swanzy Lange and Dr. Fred Lange, early founders of CFT, traveled the world in the interest of improving the medical conditions of children.

Giving to Learn: An Edifice for Education

Carr P. & Ruth Collins Learning Center – 1973

Carr P. & Ruth Collins Learning Center – 1973 The Carr P. and Ruth Collins Learning Center on the Dallas Baptist College (now Dallas Baptist University) campus was named for the couple as a reminder of the generosity made possible by the fund they established at the Dallas Community Chest Trust Fund.

Investing in Entrepreneurs: Big News for Small Business

Caruth Institute of Small Business Management – 1969

Caruth Institute of Small Business Management – 1969 A generous $200,000 gift from the W.W. Caruth Jr. Foundation Fund initiated the establishment of the Caruth Institute of Small Business Management at Southern Methodist University in 1969.

Pumping Up Cardiac Care: The Hearts of Texas

St. Paul Hospital Cardiac Research Grant – 1962

St. Paul Hospital Cardiac Research Grant – 1962 St. Paul Hospital (now UT Southwestern University Hospital – St. Paul) needed to acquire a rotating disc oxygenator, a hAeart-lung machine and diagnostic instruments to help doctors determine a patient’s need for open-heart surgery. art.

The Early Years of Daycare

Pearl C. Anderson Day Nursery - 1958

Pearl C. Anderson Day Nursery - 1958 It was not enough for working mothers in Garland to find jobs in 1958; they also had the challenge of arranging oversight for their kids in a city without daycare facilities.

W.W. Caruth, Jr. Fund at CFT

William Walter Caruth, Jr.’s philanthropic goals were to support frontier-advancing projects in public safety, education, and scientific and medical research.

William Walter Caruth, Jr.’s philanthropic goals were to support frontier-advancing projects in public safety, education, and scientific and medical research. We are honored to continue the legacy of his generosity through strategic grantmaking while he was living and further carry out the wishes of his estate.

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