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Dallas Bar Foundation

The purpose or purposes for which the Foundation is organized are educational and charitable, and to that end the corporation is formed to sponsor and encourage research, publications, institutes and forums for the furtherance of justice under the law; to establish scholarships and otherwise promote the study of law and research therein…

$291k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$53k
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.

Education$839kCrime & Legal$349kArts & Culture$50kCivil Rights$8kHuman Services$7k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $205,275, the rows itemized in this filing. The $291,269 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,994 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
$47,950
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNT Dallas College of Law$52,820
Dallas Historical Society$50,000
Dallas Bar Association Community Service Fund$47,950
SMU Dedman School of Law$39,095
Texas A&M University School of Law$9,500
Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center$5,910
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 (FY17–17, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF DALLAS: $7k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 5 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+28%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $515k · revenue +57%
  • DB
    Dallas Bar Association Community Service Fund
    8× · 2017–2024 · $321k · revenue +22%
  • I
    IGNITE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $13k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +28%
  • DC
    DALLAS CASA
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +21%
  • YO
    YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +28%
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 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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2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
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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4
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
5
Dallas Citizens Council

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

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6
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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7
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
8
Dallas Bar Foundation

The purpose or purposes for which the Foundation is organized are educational and charitable, and to that end the corporation is formed to sponsor and encourage research, publications, institutes and forums for the furtherance of justice…

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
Dallas Regional Chamber

Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.

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11
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
12
Dcms Foundation

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Bar Association Community Service Fund; the most unlike its peers is Dallas Historical Society. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southern Methodist University: $514,999 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityDALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE: $33,250 · EducationDALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE+1 more: $13,000 · EducationDallas Bar Association Community Service Fund: $321,360 · Crime & LegalDallas Bar Association Commun…UNT Dallas College of Law: $258,876 · OtherUNT Dallas College of LawTexas A&M University School of Law: $9,500 · Other+2 more: $12,000 · OtherDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $19,365 · PhilanthropyDALLAS CASA: $8,000 · Civil RightsYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $7,200 · Human ServicesDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,910 · Housing & Shelter
Education$561,249Crime & Legal$321,360Other$280,376Arts & Culture$50,000Philanthropy$19,365Civil Rights$8,000Human Services$7,200Housing & Shelter$5,910

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 budgetSouthern Methodist University: $514,999 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Bar Association Community Service Fund: $321,360 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE: $33,250 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $19,365 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIGNITE: $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS CASA: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,910 over 1y, 0.4% 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…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Dallas FoundationTX13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · 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 Dallas Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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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