· Public charity
Black Tie Dinner Inc
Host an annual dinner to raise funds for other 501(c)(3) organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $632k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $192k
- $250k+1 grant · $606k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION | $605,580 |
| HELP CENTER FOR LGBT HEALTH & WELLN | $69,604 |
| NORTHAVEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $66,640 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $55,944 |
| PRIDE FRISCO | $47,146 |
| RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS | $46,659 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR | $46,527 |
| UPTOWN PLAYERS | $44,879 |
| EQUALITY TEXAS FOUNDATION | $42,934 |
| CATHEDRAL OF HOPE | $41,509 |
| SYNERGY WESLEY FOUNDATION | $40,984 |
| DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES | $40,784 |
| TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER | $40,687 |
| TURTLE CREEK CHORALE | $40,084 |
| AIDS SERVICES OF DALLAS | $40,027 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $331k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +58%- LCLEGACY COUNSELING CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $437k · revenue +11%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR8× · 2017–2024 · $392k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- AIAIDS INTERFAITH NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +65%
TREVOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +802%- CCITYSQUAREone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -56%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The North Texas GLBT Chamber of Commerce works to achieve equality through business.
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
Celebrating diversity & enhancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & queer north texans.
Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.
The Montrose Center (TMC) empowers our community, primarily gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals and their families, to enjoy healthier and more fulfilling lives by providing culturally affirming and affordable behavioral…
We provide services to address health, social economic disparities amoung african american men with special emphasis on gay, bisexual , male to female transgender individuals and thier families in the dallas/fort worth metroplex, we are…
Pride Center San Antonio champions well-being by providing inclusive, no-cost services and programs for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions. Through education, advocacy, and community building, we create…
Resource center of dallas pursues societal equity by proudly offering lgbtqia+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, plus) affirming resources designed to improve health and wellness, strengthen…
Trans Pride Initiative empowers trans and gender diverse persons to rise above social barriers to more equitable healthcare, housing, employment, and education. This includes these program areas as well as general support, anti-violence…
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
Nonprofit charitable organization serving the lgbtq communities across texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Health Action and the most unlike its peers is Congregation Beth El Binah Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGACY COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds EQTX Equality Texas Foundation ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds PWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH EDUCATION LEARNING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds PROMISE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR AGING LGBT ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW ROUNDUP ↗
- Who funds AIDS OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK TRANS ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CHORUS OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds PRIDE FRISCO ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LEGAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds AIDS INTERFAITH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HEALTH ACTION ↗
- Who funds Pegasus Slowpitch Softball Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA ↗
- Who funds FINNS PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE SUICIDE AND CRISIS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Lightner Sams Foundation Inc · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Black Tie Dinner Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.