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· Public charity

Citysquare

The organization is a social justice organization fighting the causes and effects of poverty through an interlocking network of programs organized into four verticles: hunger, health, housing, and hope.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Religion$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$954kInternational$287kYouth Development$221kHealth$200kEducation$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $4,112,783 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,875,537 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,762,754 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 · FY2024

  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$140,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST PREBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DALLAS$1,375,000
HOUSING FORWARD$320,000
CITYSQUARE PARIS$287,343
NORTH TEXAS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AUTHORITY$200,000
TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER$175,440
EQUAL HEART$170,000
DALLAS METROCARE SERVICES$170,000
EDUCATION POTENTIAL VERIFIED$170,000
FRESHQUE$170,000
THE SALVATION ARMY NORTH TEXAS AREA COMMAND$140,000
THE BRIDGE HOMELESS RECOVERY CENTER$140,000
AIDS SERVICES OF DALLAS$120,000
VICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$75,000
CENTRAL DALLAS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$75,000
FOREST FORWARD$75,000
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 (FY24–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CITYSQUARE PARIS: $287k → 15%TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $175k → 14%EMPOWERING THE MASSES: $75k → 14%FRESHQUE: $170k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $320k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $75k → 14%EDUCATION POTENTIAL VERIFIED: $170k → 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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 4 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +127% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
18

Total granted

$1.4M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+127%
0%

Still filing today

75%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CC
    CDM CENTER OF HOPE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $885k · revenue +933%
  • CD
    CENTRAL DALLAS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · $299k · revenue +127%
  • VM
    VICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $127k · revenue -19%

Funded once

  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $1.4M
  • HF
    HOUSING FORWARD
    one grant, 2024 · $320k · revenue 0%
  • CP
    CitySquare Paris
    one grant, 2024 · $287k · 40% of their budget

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.…

2
Resource Center of Dallas Inc

Resource center of dallas pursues societal equity by proudly offering lgbtqia+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, plus) affirming resources designed to improve health and wellness, strengthen…

Health
3
Cornerstone Community Development Corporation Inc

To improve the quality of life for residents in the South Dallas / Fair Park community by providing programs and services that help people break out of the cycle of poverty and empower them to become contributing members of their…

Human Services
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
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
6
Teof

Establish economic opportunities in dallas, texas through support of affordable workforce housing and permanent supportive housing for the formerly homeless and creation of opportunities of employment and housing for low income workers.

7
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
8
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
9
South Dallas Fair Park Innercity Development Corporation

ICDC was formed for the purpose of promoting the expansion of adequate, affordable neighborhood housing and employment opportunities for low and moderate income residents of the South Dallas/Fair Park area of Dallas and to engage in…

Housing & Shelter
10
Child Poverty Action Lab

The child poverty action lab exists to reduce child poverty in dallas by 50% within a single generation.

11
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
12
Austin Street Real Estate

Austin street real estate (asre) is operated exclusively to carry out the purposes of austin street center (formerly known as shelter ministries of dallas), for charitable, religious, and educational purposes to shelter the homeless and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Philips School and Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Equal Heart. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
5/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $1,375,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCDM CENTER OF HOPE INC — $884,734 · OtherCDM CENTER OF HOPE INCNORTH TEXAS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AUTHORITY — $200,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AUTHORITYDALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER — $170,000 · OtherDALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION CENTERTHE SALVATION ARMY NORTH TEXAS AREA COMMAND — $140,000 · OtherPWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC — $120,000 · Other+3 more — $225,000 · Other+3 moreHOUSING FORWARD — $320,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FORWARDCitySquare Paris — $287,343 · Human ServicesCitySquare ParisTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER — $175,440 · Human ServicesTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION …FRESHQUE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION — $170,000 · Human ServicesFRESHQUE NONPROFIT ORGANIZA…EDUCATION POTENTIAL VERIFIED — $170,000 · Human ServicesEDUCATION POTENTIAL VERIFIE…FOR OAK CLIFF — $75,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CLIFFEMPOWERING THE MASSES — $75,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWERING THE MASSESCENTRAL DALLAS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $299,137 · Community ImprovementFOREST FORWARD — $75,000 · Community ImprovementEQUAL HEART — $170,000 · Food & NutritionBRIDGE STEPS — $140,000 · Food & NutritionVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $126,670 · PhilanthropyYOUTH VOICE INC — $94,018 · Youth Development
Other$3,114,734Human Services$1,272,783Community Improvement$374,137Food & Nutrition$310,000Philanthropy$126,670Youth Development$94,018

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 budgetCDM CENTER OF HOPE INC — $884,734 over 4y, 18% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD — $320,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENTRAL DALLAS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $299,137 over 3y, 19% of budgetCitySquare Paris — $287,343 over 1y, 40% of budgetTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER — $175,440 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetEQUAL HEART — $170,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFRESHQUE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION — $170,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetEDUCATION POTENTIAL VERIFIED — $170,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBRIDGE STEPS — $140,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $126,670 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetPWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC — $120,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH VOICE INC — $94,018 over 2y, 12% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF — $75,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOREST FORWARD — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMPOWERING THE MASSES — $75,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 FoundationTX28.7× affinity12 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 · Texas Instruments Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Housing Forward · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc

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 Citysquare 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    1report 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, FY2025

    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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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