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Bold Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$97k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$137kEducation$37kArts & Culture$18kHealth$16kCommunity Improvement$7kInternational$4kReligion$3kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL$43,973
Highland Park High School PTA$13,000
La Fiesta De Las Seis Banderas$10,000
SOUTHWESTERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$10,000
Womens Council of the Dallas Arbore$7,000
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE$5,750
EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS$5,000
HIGHLAND BELLE BOOSTER CLUB$1,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$149k · 6 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
18

Total granted

$149k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+34%

Still filing today

50%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    5× · 2018–2024 · $126k · revenue +11%
  • DS
    DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7k
  • EF
    EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue -26%

Funded once

  • CC
    CALLIER CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Pta Texas Congress Highland Park Elementary School

Pta texas congress highland park elementary school is a support organization for the students and faculty of highland park elementary school and the austin isd community

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2
Dallas Kids First

Dallas kids first elevates dialogue on the impact of school board leadership for kids in dallas isd and supports school board elections with focus on outcomes for kids.

Human Services
3
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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4
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
5
Democracy Prep Public Schools

To educate responsible citizen scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.

Arts & Culture
6
Pta Texas Congress 0514 Hill

Parent teacher support

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7
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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8
Junior League of Dallas Centennial Endowment Foundation

To support and enhance the junior league of dallas inc.

Community Improvement
9
Cypress School of San Francisco F/K/a Cow Hollow Preschool

Cypress school of san francisco is a play based full day program, serving children aged 2-5.9 years old. we are a parent participation school with a low teacher to child ratio and licensed master teachers on staff.

Education
10
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
11
Highland Park Isd Education Foundation

The Foundation's mission is to rally our entire community to raise the critical funds necessary for continuing Highland Park ISD's tradition of exemplary education.

Education
12
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas Inc

Boys and girls clubs of greater dallas enables all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is John S Armstrong School Pta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $126,023 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALLCALLIER CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: $11,010 · OtherCALLIER CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION DI…LA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC: $10,000 · OtherLA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INCSOUTHWESTERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHWESTERN METHODIST UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $8,603 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE: $7,250 · OtherDALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUEWomens Council of the Dallas Arbore: $7,000 · OtherWomens Council of the Dallas ArboreIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSPIRIT REINS INC: $3,000 · Other+11 more: $10,392 · Other+11 moreHIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL PTA: $13,000 · EducationHIGHLAND PAR…EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $6,500 · EducationEDUCATIONAL …HIGHLAND BELLE BOOSTER CLUB INC: $5,868 · EducationHIGHLAND BEL…+1 more: $100 · EducationGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $4,119 · InternationalTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $500 · Human ServicesKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $350 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$126,023Other$73,255Education$25,468International$4,119Health$1,000Human Services$500Youth Development$350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $126,023 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL PTA: $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHLAND BELLE BOOSTER CLUB INC: $5,868 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $4,119 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPIRIT REINS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $312 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S COUNCIL OF THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN S ARMSTRONG SCHOOL PTA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Texas Instruments Fou…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Texas Instruments FoundationTX16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bold Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bold Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bold Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bold Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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