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· Public charity

Children's Health System of Texas

To assist in the management of related 501(c)(3) organizations, that are a part of an integrated pediatric health care system with a mission to make life better for children.

$254k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Health$556kFood & Nutrition$95kHuman Services$75kCommunity Improvement$55kPhilanthropy$45kInternational$10kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $246,140, the rows itemized in this filing. The $253,733 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,593 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ronald McDonald House of Dallas$100,000
North Texas Food Bank$95,000
The Crystal Charity Ball$25,000
Kershaw's Challenge$10,000
Black Tie Dinner Inc$10,000
Woman's Auxiliary to Children's Medical Center$6,140
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Musicians On Call: $225k → 17%North Texas Food Bank: $95k → 5%United Way of Metropolitian Dallas: $25k → 14%Woman's Auxiliary to Children's Medical Center: $6k → 14%Ronald McDonald House of Dallas: $100k → 14%Ronald McDonald House of Dallas: $50k → 14%Ronald McDonald House of Dallas: $50k → 14%Ronald McDonald House of Dallas: $50k → 14%Children's Cancer Fund: $50k → 14%Children's Cancer Fund: $25k → 14%Junior League of Dallas Inc: $30k → 14%Junior League of Dallas Inc: $15k → 14%The Crystal Charity Ball: $25k → 14%The Crystal Charity Ball: $25k → 14%The Crystal Charity Ball: $25k → 14%Black Tie Dinner Inc: $10k → 14%Kershaw's Challenge: $10k → 14%Black Tie Dinner Inc: $10k → 14%Dirk Nowitzki Foundation: $8k → 14%Dallas Regional Chamber: $10k → 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$465k · 5 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$465k
$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
PhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $250k · revenue +55%
  • CC
    Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $75k · revenue +162%
  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSICIANS ON CALL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue +30%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • DR
    Dallas Regional Chamber
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +19%
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.

1
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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2
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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3
Young Texans Against Cancer Dallas

Young Texans Against Cancer is a network of motivated young professionals collectively working together to raise awareness and funds to support the local Dallas cancer community. The Dallas chapter was established in 2007, as part of a…

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4
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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5
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
6
Methodist Richardson Medical Center Foundation

To build and maintain donor relationships in order to raise, manage, and distribute funds to assist Methodist Health System in acquiring state-of-the-art technology, attracting excellent medical staff, and supporting vital hospital…

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7
Dallas Mavericks Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Dallas Bar Association

The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the…

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10
Dallas County Indigent Care

Dallas county indigent care corporation, (dcicc) a texas nonprofit membership corporation, is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code…

Health
11
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Regional Chamber; the most unlike its peers is Dirk Nowitzki Foundation. 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

12 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc: $250,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House of Dallas IncNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $95,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKBLACK TIE DINNER INC: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICIANS ON CALL INCTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHA…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF M…KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKERSHAW'S CHALL…DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyDIRK NOWITZKI F…Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc: $75,000 · HealthChildren's…WOMENS AUXILIARY TO THE CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $6,140 · HealthWOMENS AUX…JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $45,000 · Community Improvement
Other$375,000Arts & Culture$225,000Philanthropy$117,500Health$81,140Community Improvement$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRonald McDonald House of Dallas Inc: $250,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $225,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $95,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc: $75,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK TIE DINNER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDallas Regional Chamber: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetWOMENS AUXILIARY TO THE CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $6,140 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Communities Foundatio…Children's Health Sys…Texas Instruments Fou…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Children's Health System of Texas · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Children's Health System of Texas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children's Health System of Texas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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