Texas · Public charity
Commit2dallas
Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher education, institutions, city, county, and state governments, foundations, non-profits, employers, and…
- $9.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $60M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Commit2dallas funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $9.2M | 43% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $14M | 54% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $5.1M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $3.4M | 55% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $2.4M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $27k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Child Poverty Action Lab | $12,418,064 | 5 | 40% |
| Economic Mobility Center Economic Mobility Systems | $5,501,351 | 3 | 43% |
| Education Is Freedom Foundation | $3,106,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Good Reason Houston Inc | $1,975,000 | 3 | 6% |
| United to Learn | $1,325,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Leadership Isd Inc | $1,000,000 | 4 | 84% |
| Commit to Students | $779,000 | 2 | 41% |
| Groundwork DFW | $750,000 | 3 | 33% |
| University of N TX at Dallas | $639,820 | 2 | n/a |
| Sustained Leaders | $600,000 | 2 | 32% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Child Poverty Action Lab | $12,418,064 | 5 | 40% |
| Economic Mobility Center Economic Mobility Systems | $5,501,351 | 3 | 43% |
| Education Is Freedom Foundation | $3,106,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Good Reason Houston Inc | $1,975,000 | 3 | 6% |
| United to Learn | $1,325,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Leadership Isd Inc | $1,000,000 | 4 | 84% |
| Commit to Students | $779,000 | 2 | 41% |
| Groundwork DFW | $750,000 | 3 | 33% |
| University of N TX at Dallas | $639,820 | 2 | n/a |
| Sustained Leaders | $600,000 | 2 | 32% |
| The NROC Project | $576,503 | 2 | 5% |
| Dallas College Foundation Inc | $426,542 | 2 | 1% |
| Dallas Regional Chamber | $387,420 | 2 | 2% |
| Education Service Center Region I of Texas | $355,988 | 1 | n/a |
| Garland Isd Education Foundation | $350,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Bachman Lake Together | $332,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Education Partnership of the Permian Basin | $300,000 | 4 | 9% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $289,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dallas Education Foundation | $255,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Aldine Independent School District | $241,036 | 1 | n/a |
| Teach for America Inc | $225,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Womans University | $204,250 | 2 | n/a |
| For Oak Cliff | $203,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Youth Guidance | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Texas A&M University-Commerce | $179,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Quality of Life Foundation for Metropolitan Dallas | $153,010 | 1 | n/a |
| Public Impact LLC | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| E3 Alliance | $147,000 | 2 | 2% |
| E L Furr High School (Ms) | $141,036 | 1 | n/a |
| Grayson College | $134,164 | 1 | n/a |
| North Central Tx College | $126,573 | 1 | n/a |
| Redemption Bridge | $120,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Corpus Christi Isd | $116,036 | 1 | n/a |
| Tyler Junior College | $111,123 | 1 | n/a |
| Grand Prairie Isd Education Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity Public Affairs LLC | $66,797 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Worth Cradle to Career | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| P16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Greater Waco Collective Impact Initiative | $60,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Education Opens Doors Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Dallas Isd | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Citizens for Educational Excellence Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Desoto Isd | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Teach Plus Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vote Yes for RISD Kids | $27,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Decisive Campaigns LLC | $15,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Todd a Williams Family Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Texas Tribune Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Commit2dallas supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Byrne Family Foundation Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Boone Family Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Addy Foundation · State Fair of Texas · Texas Instruments Foundation · Gates Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Commit2dallas
- How much does Commit2dallas give?
- Commit2dallas reported 29 grants totaling $9,296,881 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Commit2dallas fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Human Services (25%), International (10%).
- Who are Commit2dallas's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Child Poverty Action Lab ($12M), Economic Mobility Center Economic Mobility Systems ($5.5M), Education Is Freedom Foundation ($3.1M).
- Does Commit2dallas fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Commit2dallas?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Byrne Family Foundation Trust.
- Where is Commit2dallas based?
- Commit2dallas is based in TX.
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