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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.

$9.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2.2M
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 2025.

Education$19MHuman Services$9.2MInternational$3.4MPhilanthropy$1.9MCivil Rights$806kCommunity Improvement$482kYouth Development$320kPublic Benefit$232kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+9 grants · $7.0M
$150,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Economic Mobility Systems$2,160,000
Education is Freedom$1,950,000
United to Learn$750,000
University of N TX at Dallas$477,705
COMMIT TO STUDENTS$460,000
REGION ONE EDUCATION SERVICE$355,988
Groundwork DFW$300,000
SUSTAINED LEADERS$300,000
UNITED WAY OF METRO DALLAS$250,000
ALDINE ISD$241,036
YOUTH GUIDANCE$200,000
GARLAND ISD$180,000
The NROC Project$176,503
QUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION$153,010
PUBLIC IMPACT LLC$150,000
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 (FY21–25, $535k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $50k → 29%For Oak Cliff: $100k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $60k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $35k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $8k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $127k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $100k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $55k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 20 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
18

Total granted

$31M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

90%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentCommunity 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

  • CP
    CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12M · revenue +48% · 40% of their budget
  • EM
    ECONOMIC MOBILITY CENTER ECONOMIC MOBILITY SYSTEMS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +160% · 43% of their budget
  • EI
    EDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • DE
    DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $255k · revenue -8%
  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $225k · revenue +20%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE REGISTRARS AND ADMISSIONS OFFICERS
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +15%
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
Educational Results Partnership

Educational Results Partnership is a non-profit organization that applies data science to help improve student outcomes and career readiness throughout the educational system. Our goal is to ensure that more students enter the workforce…

Education
2
The Educator Collective

We believe thriving schools start with supported educators. Thats why The Educator Collective partners with North Texas school districts school teams and education nonprofit organizations to provide leadership development wellness…

Education
3
Texas Business Leadership Council

The Texas Business Leadership Council ("TBLC") was created in 1994 as a non-partisan 501(c)(6) nonprofit corporation that provides public policy research and recommendations to our state's elected leadership. (See Schedule O) As Texas'…

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4
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
5
Ilearn Collaborative

ILearn Collaborative creates equity in education by building the capacity of educators to implement student-centered learning. We provide professional development, consulting services and a wide variety of digital resources, and we welcome…

Education
6
Fort Worth Education Partnership Inc

We believe that every fort worth area student deserves the opportunity to have access to high-quality education. in pursuit of this, fort worth education partnership's mission is to support, invest in, and coordinate opportunities that…

Education
7
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
8
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
9
National Education Opportunity Network Inc

The National Education Equity Lab propels economic mobility for students from low-income communities by delivering college credit-bearing courses from our nation's top universities and colleges into low-income Title I high schools at…

Education
10
Good Reason Houston Inc

Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.

Education
11
Partners for Educational Leadershipinc

Partners' mission is to improve teaching and learning in order to improve student outcomes,reduce achievement gaps and promote equity. partners' goal is to improve the capacity of school districts to teach all students to achieve high…

Education
12
Abilene Education Foundation

The Abilene Education Foundation is a non-profit community organization created to enhance and inspire excellence in education for the students and teachers of Abilene Independent School District.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for America Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Nroc Project. 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

36 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. 36 of the 52 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
19/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $12,418,064 · OtherCHILD POVERTY ACTION LABLEADERSHIP ISD INC: $1,000,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP ISD INCUniversity of N TX at Dallas: $639,820 · Other+18 more: $2,740,923 · Other+18 moreECONOMIC MOBILITY CENTER ECONOMIC MOBILITY SYSTEMS: $5,501,351 · EducationECONOMIC MOBILITY CENTER ECONOMIC MOBILITY SYSTEM…EDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $3,106,000 · EducationEDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATIONGood Reason Houston Inc: $1,975,000 · EducationGood Reason Houston IncUNITED TO LEARN: $1,325,000 · EducationUNITED TO LEARNGroundwork DFW: $750,000 · EducationSUSTAINED LEADERS: $600,000 · EducationThe NROC Project: $576,503 · Education+13 more: $2,013,542 · Education+13 moreCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $930,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $513,691 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $289,000 · PhilanthropyQUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION FOR METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $153,010 · Philanthropy+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCommit to Students: $779,000 · Civil RightsBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $332,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CLIFF: $203,000 · Human ServicesREDEMPTION BRIDGE: $120,000 · ReligionFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE: $60,000 · Community Improvement
Other$16,798,807Education$15,847,396Philanthropy$1,900,701Civil Rights$779,000Human Services$535,000Religion$120,000Youth Development$60,000Community Improvement$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $12,418,064 over 5y, 40% of budgetECONOMIC MOBILITY CENTER ECONOMIC MOBILITY SYSTEMS: $5,501,351 over 3y, 43% of budgetEDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $3,106,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetGood Reason Houston Inc: $1,975,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $1,325,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetLEADERSHIP ISD INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 84% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $930,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommit to Students: $779,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetGroundwork DFW: $750,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSUSTAINED LEADERS: $600,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetThe NROC Project: $576,503 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $513,691 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $426,542 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDallas Regional Chamber: $387,420 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetGARLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $332,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetEducation Partnership of the Permian Basin: $300,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $289,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF: $203,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetYouth Guidance: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE REGISTRARS AND ADMISSIONS OFFICERS: $200,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetE3 ALLIANCE: $147,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER: $60,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetP16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE: $60,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetEDUCATION OPENS DOORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCITIZENS FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTODD A WILLIAMS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…The Dallas FoundationByrne Family Foundati…United Way of Metropo…Boone Family Foundati…Meadows Foundation IncThe Addy FoundationState Fair of TexasTexas Instruments Fou…Gates FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Rainwater Charitable …
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX38.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Commit2dallas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Commit2dallas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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 52 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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