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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 FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$3.7MHuman Services$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.0MPhilanthropy$934kEducation$593kCrime & Legal$489kPublic Safety & Disaster$316kHousing & Shelter$209kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 43 grants below total $4,418,329 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,512,134 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,805 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $497k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
$41,336
Median grant
5
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$1,500,000
CONSULTORIO GENERAL HISPANO$417,618
GLC WELLNESS CENTER TEXAS LL$292,859
FOREST FORWARD$250,000
COMADRE TELEMEDICINE$230,044
HHM HEALTH$149,690
ITALY FAMILY PHARMACY INC$142,341
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$100,000
HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE$100,000
JUBILEE PARK & COMM CENTER$100,000
HOLY CROSS OBGYN INC$94,290
WOMENS HEALTH CARE CENTER$85,493
TENISON WOMENS HEALTH CENTER$83,363
FOREMOST FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$64,852
UNITED PEOPLES COALITION$52,000
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 (FY21–25, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED: $15k → 8%DOLLAR FOR: $50k → 9%HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE: $100k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMM CENTER: $100k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMM CENTER: $50k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMM CENTER: $35k → 14%VIOLAS HOUSE: $25k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $50k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $50k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $75k → 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 28 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
21

Total granted

$4.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

46%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MA
    Measure Austin
    2× · 2021–2024 · $285k · revenue +290% · 61% of their budget
  • C
    COMMIT2DALLAS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $205k · revenue +96%
  • TO
    THE OAK CLIFF VEGGIE PROJECT INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $67k · revenue +53% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • DE
    DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -27%
  • TT
    TEXPROTECTS-THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +8%
  • Southern Methodist University
    one grant, 2023 · $141k · revenue +14%

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
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.…

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2
Dallas Innovation Alliance

The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a 501(c)(3) public-private consortium of public, private, civic and academia to support smart city initiatives in Dallas. Our definition of a Smart City is one at the intersection of community, data…

Community Improvement
3
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…

Community Improvement
4
Community Does It

CommunitY Does It is a nonprofit organization that applies Community-Based Participatory Action research methods (CBPAR) and grassroots organizing principles to engage and empower members of marginalized populations in Dallas to co-lead…

Human Services
5
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
6
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
7
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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8
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
9
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
10
Greenspace Dallas

Improving public and park land communities using educational and vocational training for underserved youth.

Environment
11
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
12
Tarrant County Homeless Coalition

Tarrant County Homeless Coalition leads the community solution to homelessness in greater Tarrant and Parker counties by serving as a catalyst for community transformation.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is 4DWN Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%21%<5yr17%19%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr9%21%35–55yr13%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%16%<5yr17%11%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr9%8%35–55yr13%29%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/71
the rest of the field
17%
4,112/23,887

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

44 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. 44 of the 71 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
21/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONSULTORIO GENERAL HISPANO — $741,322 · OtherCONSULTORIO GENERAL HISPANOCOMADRE TELEMEDICINE — $414,111 · OtherCOMADRE TELEMEDICINEGLC WELLNESS CENTER TEXAS LL — $375,548 · OtherGLC WELLNESS CENTER TEXAS LLTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE — $275,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CE…ITALY FAMILY PHARMACY INC — $238,003 · OtherITALY FAMILY PHARMACY INCHOLY CROSS OBGYN INC — $165,928 · OtherNEXT GENERATION ACTION NETWORK FOUNDATION — $216,000 · OtherNEXT GENERATION ACTION NETWORK FOUNDATIONTEXPROTECTS-THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN — $200,000 · OtherGround Game Fund — $130,000 · Other+28 more — $1,109,186 · Other+28 moreTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $1,500,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYMeasure Austin — $285,000 · EducationMeasure AustinCOMMIT2DALLAS — $205,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASSouthern Methodist University — $141,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist Universi…+3 more — $95,000 · EducationTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $834,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS …VolunteerNow — $100,000 · PhilanthropyVolunteerNo…+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFOREST FORWARD — $500,000 · Community ImprovementBuilders of Hope CDC — $80,000 · Community ImprovementTHE OAK CLIFF VEGGIE PROJECT INC — $67,000 · Community ImprovementBETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $185,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CLIFF — $100,000 · Human ServicesBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER — $75,000 · Human ServicesDOLLAR FOR — $50,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesVIOLAS HOUSE — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $25,320 · Human ServicesHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $174,958 · HealthWOMEN'S HEALTHCARE CENTER — $99,964 · HealthMARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY C FOREMOST FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS — $64,852 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION — $63,200 · HealthAIDS ARMS INC — $41,336 · Health+2 more — $20,000 · HealthDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterINCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES PROJECT — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC — $49,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,865,098Education$2,226,000Philanthropy$944,000Community Improvement$707,000Human Services$610,320Health$464,310Housing & Shelter$349,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $834,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOREST FORWARD — $500,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMeasure Austin — $285,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER — $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS — $205,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTEXPROTECTS-THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN — $200,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $185,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $174,958 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $141,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGround Game Fund — $130,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetVolunteerNow — $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF — $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWOMEN'S HEALTHCARE CENTER — $99,964 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBuilders of Hope CDC — $80,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER — $75,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNOT MY SON — $75,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE OAK CLIFF VEGGIE PROJECT INC — $67,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION — $63,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetDOLLAR FOR — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Step Staffing Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC — $49,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBIG THOUGHT — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGroundwork DFW — $30,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMETHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $27,212 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPOLICING EQUITY — $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS COMMUNITY LIGHTHOUSE — $10,320 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…United Way of Metropo…The Addy FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Meadows Foundation IncBoone Family Foundati…Hillcrest FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Rees-Jones Founda…Texas Instruments Fou…
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

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 Child Poverty Action Lab 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%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 71 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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