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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 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, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $4,112,783, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,875,537 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,762,754 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 · 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
AUSTIN STREET CENTER$75,000
YOUTH VOICE INC$75,000
VICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$75,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +127% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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 -2%

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
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
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
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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.

—
9
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
10
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
11
Child Poverty Action Lab

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

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12
Greenspace Dallas

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

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Philips School and Community Center; 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 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. 18 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…Texas Instruments Fou…Texas Women's Foundat…Hillcrest FoundationHousing ForwardThe Addy FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationRoy and Christine Stu…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Meadows Foundation Inc
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

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 Citysquare funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Citysquare. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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, 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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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