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Child Poverty Action Lab
The CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB exists to reduce child poverty in dallas by 50% within a single generation.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 84%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $41,336
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 32
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 84% of the organizations Child Poverty Action Lab funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $4.4M | 49% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $2.1M | 84% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $734k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $249k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $506k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $312k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $25k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Health$3.7MHuman Services$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.0MPhilanthropy$934kEducation$593kCrime & Legal$489kPublic Safety & Disaster$316kHousing & Shelter$209kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Christian University | $1,500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Consultorio General Hispano | $741,322 | 2 | n/a |
| Forest Forward | $500,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Comadre Telemedicine | $414,111 | 2 | n/a |
| Glc Wellness Center Texas Ll | $375,548 | 2 | n/a |
| Measure Austin | $285,000 | 2 | 61% |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $275,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center | $250,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Italy Family Pharmacy Inc | $238,003 | 2 | n/a |
| Next Generation Action Network Foundation | $216,000 | 5 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Christian University | $1,500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Consultorio General Hispano | $741,322 | 2 | n/a |
| Forest Forward | $500,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Comadre Telemedicine | $414,111 | 2 | n/a |
| Glc Wellness Center Texas Ll | $375,548 | 2 | n/a |
| Measure Austin | $285,000 | 2 | 61% |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $275,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center | $250,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Italy Family Pharmacy Inc | $238,003 | 2 | n/a |
| Next Generation Action Network Foundation | $216,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Commit2dallas | $205,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Texprotects-The Texas Association for the Protection of Children | $200,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Jubilee Park & Community Center Corporation | $185,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Healing Hands Ministries Inc | $174,958 | 2 | 0% |
| Holy Cross Obgyn Inc | $165,928 | 2 | n/a |
| Southern Methodist University | $141,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ground Game Fund | $130,000 | 1 | 4% |
| VolunteerNow | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Friends of the Children - Dallas | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Human Rights Initiative of North Texas Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| For Oak Cliff | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Women's Healthcare Center | $99,964 | 2 | 1% |
| United Peoples Coalition | $92,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tenison Womens Health Center | $83,363 | 1 | n/a |
| Pegasus Health Justice Center | $82,605 | 2 | n/a |
| Builders of Hope CDC | $80,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Not My Son | $75,000 | 2 | 20% |
| Bachman Lake Together | $75,000 | 1 | 5% |
| The Oak Cliff Veggie Project Inc | $67,000 | 2 | 34% |
| Martin Luther King Jr Family C Foremost Family Health Centers | $64,852 | 1 | n/a |
| Parkland Foundation | $63,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Popup Comfort | $59,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Twentyeight Health | $50,680 | 2 | n/a |
| First Step Staffing Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Better Block Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Dallas College Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lutheran Social Services of the South Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dollar For | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Inclusive Communities Project | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Inner City Community Development Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hearts and Hammers - Twin Cities Inc | $49,000 | 2 | 6% |
| University of Arkansas Fayetteville | $43,198 | 1 | n/a |
| AIDS Arms Inc | $41,336 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Thought | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Robbin Hood Inc | $37,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Groundwork DFW | $30,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Dallas Community Fellowship Inc | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Methodist Health System Foundation Inc | $27,212 | 2 | 0% |
| Good Coworking LLC | $26,818 | 1 | n/a |
| Elite Np Clinic Pllc | $26,757 | 2 | n/a |
| Violas House | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Movement Builders Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Serun Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Learn With Train LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southwest Coaliton for a Better Dallas | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Spring Leaf Corp | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Policing Equity | $24,000 | 1 | 0% |
| People of Dallas Houseless Aid | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 4l-A Clinic and Consultants I | $16,796 | 2 | n/a |
| Keeping Families Connected Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas Education Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 4DWN Project Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Galloway Pharmacy | $13,603 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin D Roosevelt Hs Alum | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Health and Allied Health | $11,154 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas Community Lighthouse | $10,320 | 1 | 2% |
| All Saints Health Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jps Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Health Resources Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Dallas Progress Community Development Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Child Poverty Action Lab supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.
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.
The Dallas FoundationTX35.6× affinity18 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 · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Boone Family Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Instruments 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.
About Child Poverty Action Lab
- How much does Child Poverty Action Lab give?
- Child Poverty Action Lab reported 43 itemized grants totaling $4,418,329, out of $4,512,134 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Child Poverty Action Lab fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (41%), Human Services (14%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Child Poverty Action Lab's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Texas Christian University ($1.5M), Consultorio General Hispano ($741k), Forest Forward ($500k).
- Does Child Poverty Action Lab fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Child Poverty Action Lab?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc.
- Where is Child Poverty Action Lab based?
- Child Poverty Action Lab is based in TX.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home