· Public charity
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc
To support and enhance small performing arts organizations that create, perform and display art in dallas, texas by grant-making through the moody fund for the arts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 54 grants below total $391,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $445,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,500 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $345k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTSTILLERY | $12,000 |
| DALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY | $12,000 |
| SOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY | $12,000 |
| TEATRO DALLAS | $11,000 |
| BALLET NORTH TEXAS | $9,500 |
| ANITA N MARTINEZ BALLET FOLKLORICO | $8,250 |
| DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $8,250 |
| ECHO THEATRE | $8,000 |
| GREATER DALLAS YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $8,000 |
| OVER THE BRIDGE ARTS | $8,000 |
| UPTOWN PLAYERS | $8,000 |
| THE AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL | $8,000 |
| NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $8,000 |
| FLAMENCO FEVER | $8,000 |
| DALLAS FILM SOCIETY INC DBA DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SRSOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY6× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +214%
- THTEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +97%
- DCDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- OBOllimpaxqui Ballet Company Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +28%
- TTTECO THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INCone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -4%
- TSThe Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallasone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Dallas Chamber Choir is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit performing arts organization. It provides classical and contemporary choral music for the general public in religious, civic, and concert settings. It also provides cultural enrichment and…
Hopera's mission is to produce live musical performances in unique Houston Area spaces that focus on and empower Houston Area artists. Our Pint-Sized Performance concert series empowers local musicians to create original programs that are…
TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…
Providing paid opportunities for Houston based singers.
We are a local non-profit 501(c3) community theatre that leases a space from the city to put on theatrical productions.
Celebrating excellence in Austin Theatre
As a non-profit organization, Deaf Austin Theatre's purpose is to enrich, inspire, educate, create, and entertain the Austin community by using American Sign Language (ASL) within all of our theatrical productions that range from classics…
APAC is a supporting organization to Stages, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization producing live theater.
Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…
You Connection is a Christian theatre and media organization using the Arts to communicate the Gospel to audiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Arts District Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Cedars Union. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
68 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 86 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds TEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds PRISM MOVEMENT THEATER ↗
- Who funds ARTSTILLERY ↗
- Who funds Artist Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERMAIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PREMIER LONE STAR WIND ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN DOG THEATER ↗
- Who funds Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds VERDIGRIS ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Ballet North Texas ↗
- Who funds ARGA NOVA DANCE ↗
- Who funds Avant Chamber Ballet Inc ↗
- Who funds Echo Theatre ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BAROQUE OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ARTS MISSION OAK CLIFF ↗
- Who funds BRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THEATRE THREE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWAN STRINGS ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Dont Ask Why ↗
- Who funds WRITERS GARRET ↗
- Who funds SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ANITA N MARTINEZ BALLET FOLKLORIC INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD ↗
- Who funds DANCE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds USA FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS MUSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BACH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARA MIA THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds Pegasus Media Project ↗
- Who funds SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Taca Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust · Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation · The Addy Foundation · March Family Foundation · Embrey Family Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Rea Charitable Trust
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 Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc 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.
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.