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Chi Omega Education and Charity Fund of Dallas

To oversee the chi omega chirstmas market, to provide grants to qualifying charitable organizations that serve the dallas community within the areas of health, education, arts & welfare, and to make grants for scholarships to members of the chi omega sorority at southern methodist university and other universities.

$563k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of CHI OMEGA EDUCATION AND CHARITY FUND OF DALLAS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $507,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $562,565 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,565 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $302k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$985k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE STEWPOT$52,000
BONTON ENTERPRISES$50,000
GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT$50,000
FAMILY COMPASS$50,000
TEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY$50,000
TOGETHER WE THRIVE$50,000
NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$40,000
YOUNG WOMENS PREPATORY NETWORK$40,000
SWAN STRINGS$30,000
CHILDRENS CARNIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION$25,000
WOMEN IN NEED OF GENEROUS SUPPORT$25,000
BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC$25,000
MAKE A WISH NORTH TEXAS$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $728k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAINGAIT: $30k → 5%DALLAS COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $35k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE INC: $49k → 14%VICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER: $38k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $40k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $55k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 14%HEART HOUSE: $45k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $45k → 14%CONNECTING POINT OF PARK CITIES: $37k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $35k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $17k → 14%BRIDGE: $16k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $14k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $8k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $7k → 14%THE WESLEY RANKIN COMMUNITY: $32k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED OF GENEROUS SUPPORT: $25k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $32k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $33k → 14%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $50k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $50k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $14k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$840k · 15 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
68

Total granted

$840k
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+9%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • FC
    FAMILY COMPASS
    2× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +10%
  • YE
    YOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED
    2× · 2018–2024 · $78k · revenue +204%
  • CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $62k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • MC
    MAKE-A-WISH CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $76k
  • PH
    PROMISE HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $59k · revenue +21%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
2
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
3
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…

Employment
4
Elevate North Texas

Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming and affirming environment for youth 18-24 experiencing homelessness providing short-term housing and case management. Elevate North Texas addresses youth homelessness from two angles: a hotel program…

Health
5
Dallas Services

The mission of Dallas Services is to enable individuals with disabilities and other special needs to achieve their potential by fostering community inclusiveness and independence.

—
6
Dallas Center Inc

To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.

Human Services
7
Tip of Texas Family Outreach Inc

To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

—
8
COMMIT2DALLAS

Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher…

Education
9
UnBound North Texas

Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.

—
10
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

—
11
Dallas County Family Resource Center

The mission of Dallas County Family Resource Center is to provide programs to improve the quality of resources and well-being of the children and families in the community by intake, assessment, and referral of those in need to available…

Human Services
12
Transition Resource Action Center

Connect young people ages 1624 who are transitioning out of foster or juvenile care and their unhoused peers in North Texas with the support they need to reach self-sufficiency, through individualized support, planning, and access to…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Swan Strings. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth & Family Support Serv…Performing Arts Organizatio…Faith-Based and Independent…Christian Gospel MinistriesMedical Research and Health…Dallas Community DevelopmentProfessional Membership Ass…Trauma Recovery & Family Su…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr17%7%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr9%37%35–55yr14%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr17%8%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr9%41%35–55yr14%16%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
18%
2,549/14,134

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 93 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/67
Grantees still filing
40/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS — $153,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXASMAKE-A-WISH CAPITAL CAMPAIGN — $100,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH CAPITAL CAMPAIGNIndividual grant recipient — $76,387 · OtherCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION — $62,000 · OtherPROMISE HOUSE INC — $58,500 · Other+45 more — $1,192,104 · Other+45 moreGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT — $100,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SU…YOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED — $77,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEEDDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $55,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY …HOPE COTTAGE INC — $48,790 · Human ServicesHOPE COTTAGE INCMETROCREST SERVICES — $45,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICESHEART HOUSE — $45,000 · Human ServicesHEART HOUSECHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES C…NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesVICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER — $38,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTING POINT OF PARK CITIES — $36,800 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY CO — $35,000 · Human ServicesDallas Area Rape Crisis Center — $35,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Place — $32,500 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $31,500 · Human ServicesMane Gait — $30,000 · Human Services+5 more — $110,500 · Human Services+5 moreREADERS 2 LEADERS — $51,500 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $41,500 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM — $36,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC — $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY COMPASS — $85,000 · Crime & LegalNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $56,700 · Crime & LegalEXODUS MINISTRIES — $31,500 · Crime & LegalTraffick911 — $25,000 · Crime & LegalBONTON ENTERPRISES — $50,000 · EducationCATCH UP & READ INC — $45,000 · EducationYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK — $40,000 · EducationWILKINSON CENTER — $32,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC — $22,500 · EducationOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE — $46,500 · HealthRAINBOW DAYS INC — $40,000 · HealthMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $31,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · HealthTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC — $7,500 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsRISE ADVENTURES INC — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsFOR THE LOVE OF THE LAKE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,641,991Human Services$805,590Youth Development$240,500Crime & Legal$198,200Education$190,000Health$150,500Recreation & Sports$110,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS — $153,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS — $85,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED — $77,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION — $62,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC — $58,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $56,700 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $55,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS — $51,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTOGETHER WE THRIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetSPCA of Texas — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHOPE COTTAGE INC — $48,790 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDALLAS CASA — $46,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC — $46,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE — $46,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES — $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCATCH UP & READ INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEART HOUSE — $45,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $45,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMomentous Institute — $45,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $41,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRAINBOW DAYS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS — $40,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER — $38,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCONNECTING POINT OF PARK CITIES — $36,800 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM — $36,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRISE ADVENTURES INC — $35,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDallas Area Rape Crisis Center — $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDCAREGROUP — $33,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Family Place — $32,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER — $32,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES — $31,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE WARREN CENTER INC — $31,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $31,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $31,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST SIMON'S AFTER-SCHOOL — $30,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE — $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMane Gait — $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSWAN STRINGS — $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC — $26,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFOR THE LOVE OF THE LAKE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budget
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.

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Rees-Jones Founda…United Way of Metropo…Capital for KidsHillcrest FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Hoblitzelle FoundationElizabeth Toon Charit…
The Dallas FoundationTX70.1× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Capital for Kids · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Elizabeth Toon Charities

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 Chi Omega Education and Charity Fund of Dallas 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

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    How do I get to Chi Omega Education and Charity Fund of Dallas?

    Find your warmest path to Chi Omega Education and Charity Fund of Dallas 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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