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Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc at a glance

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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.

$445k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.1MYouth Development$37kHealth$24kPublic Benefit$13kEducation$6k
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 54 grants below total $391,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $445,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,500 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k50 grants · $345k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY$12,000
DALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY$12,000
ARTSTILLERY$12,000
TEATRO DALLAS$11,000
BALLET NORTH TEXAS$9,500
DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT FOUNDATION$8,250
ANITA N MARTINEZ BALLET FOLKLORICO$8,250
NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$8,000
ECHO THEATRE$8,000
UPTOWN PLAYERS$8,000
GREATER DALLAS YOUTH ORCHESTRA$8,000
OVER THE BRIDGE ARTS$8,000
FLAMENCO FEVER$8,000
THE AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL$8,000
DALLAS FILM SOCIETY INC DBA DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$7,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THEATRE THREE: $10k → 17%JUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD: $11k → 14%JUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD: $10k → 14%JUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD: $10k → 14%PEGASUS MUSICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 14%KITCHEN DOG THEATER COMPANY: $11k → 14%KITCHEN DOG THEATER COMPANY: $10k → 14%INDIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BALLET NORTH TEXAS: $10k → 14%PREMIERE LONE STAR WIND ORCHESTRA: $10k → 14%PEGASUS MEDIA PROJECT: $12k → 14%SWAN STRINGS: $10k → 14%UNDERMAIN THEATRE: $10k → 14%UNDERMAIN THEATRE: $10k → 14%ARTSTILLERY: $10k → 14%ARTSTILLERY NONPROFIT: $10k → 14%TEATRO DALLAS: $12k → 14%TEATRO DALLAS: $11k → 14%OUTLOUD DALLAS: $10k → 14%TEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS: $10k → 14%TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC: $10k → 14%ARTS MISSION OAK CLIFF: $12k → 14%ARTS MISSION OAK CLIFF: $12k → 14%ARTSTILLERY: $12k → 14%ARTS MISSION OAK CLIFF: $10k → 14%ARTSTILLERY: $10k → 14%ARTIST OUTREACH INC (THE): $12k → 14%B MOORE DANCE: $12k → 14%B MOORE DANCE: $10k → 14%SOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY: $12k → 14%SOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY: $12k → 14%THE BRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC: $12k → 14%CARA MIA THEATRE CO: $11k → 14%ARGA NOVA DANCE: $11k → 14%PRISM MOVEMENT THEATER: $11k → 14%UPTOWN PLAYERS INC: $11k → 14%GREATER DALLAS YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $10k → 14%AVANT CHAMBER BALLET: $10k → 14%PRISM MOVEMENT THEATER: $10k → 14%BRUCE WOOD DANCE: $10k → 14%THE BRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC: $10k → 14%ARGA NOVA DANCE: $10k → 14%SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 14%NEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 14%AVANT CHAMBER BALLET: $10k → 14%THEATRE THREE: $10k → 14%DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE ARTIST OUTREACH: $10k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 65 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
13

Total granted

$2.0M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+8%

Still filing today

85%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SR
    SOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +214%
  • TH
    TEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +97%
  • DC
    DALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • OB
    Ollimpaxqui Ballet Company Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • TT
    TECO THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -4%
  • TS
    The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -5%
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
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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2
Dallas Chamber Choir

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…

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3
Hopera

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…

Arts & Culture
4
TexArts Association for Visual & Performing Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Operativo Houston

Providing paid opportunities for Houston based singers.

Arts & Culture
6
Encanto Arts
Arts & Culture
7
Mesquite Arts Theatre

We are a local non-profit 501(c3) community theatre that leases a space from the city to put on theatrical productions.

Arts & Culture
8
B Iden Payne Awards Council

Celebrating excellence in Austin Theatre

Arts & Culture
9
Deaf 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…

Arts & Culture
10
Allen Parkway Arts Center Inc

APAC is a supporting organization to Stages, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization producing live theater.

Arts & Culture
11
Harmonia Stellarum Houston

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…

Arts & Culture
12
You Connection Inc

You Connection is a Christian theatre and media organization using the Arts to communicate the Gospel to audiences.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Arts District Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 86 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)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
46/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY: $64,000 · Arts & CultureTEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS: $58,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY: $54,750 · Arts & Culture+51 more: $1,434,250 · Arts & Culture+51 moreTEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC: $49,600 · OtherTEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTRE…THEATRE THREE INC: $38,500 · OtherTHEATRE THREE INCBMOORE DANCE: $36,250 · OtherBMOORE DANCEANITA N MARTINEZ BALLET FOLKLORIC INC: $32,250 · OtherANITA N MARTINEZ BALLET F…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEGRO MUSICIANS DALLAS METROPLEX BRANCH: $31,500 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF N…DANCE COUNCIL: $30,000 · OtherDANCE COUNCILUSA FILM FESTIVAL: $29,250 · OtherUSA FILM FESTIVALCRY HAVOC THEATER COMPANY: $25,500 · OtherSOUTH DALLAS CONCERT CHOIR: $19,500 · OtherDFW PLAY: $19,000 · OtherEMERGE COALITION INC: $18,500 · Other+17 more: $148,900 · Other+17 morePegasus Media Project: $27,250 · EducationSlappy and Monday's Foundation for Laughter: $24,000 · HealthOutLoud Dallas: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentAHA ARTHOUSE DALLAS: $12,500 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$1,611,000Other$478,750Education$27,250Health$24,000Youth Development$16,000Public Benefit$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY: $64,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetTEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS: $58,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY: $54,750 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetPRISM MOVEMENT THEATER: $52,700 over 6y, 22% of budgetARTSTILLERY: $51,250 over 5y, 13% of budgetArtist Outreach Inc: $50,750 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC: $49,600 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetUNDERMAIN THEATRE: $49,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPREMIER LONE STAR WIND ORCHESTRA: $48,450 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetKITCHEN DOG THEATER: $46,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc: $43,800 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetVERDIGRIS ENSEMBLE INC: $43,500 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetBallet North Texas: $43,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetARGA NOVA DANCE: $42,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetAvant Chamber Ballet Inc: $42,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetEcho Theatre: $41,750 over 5y, 13% of budgetDALLAS ARTS DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $41,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN BAROQUE OPERA COMPANY: $41,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetARTS MISSION OAK CLIFF: $41,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetBRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC: $40,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNEW TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $39,300 over 5y, 22% of budgetTHEATRE THREE INC: $38,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetINDIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $37,250 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetSWAN STRINGS: $37,000 over 5y, 67% of budgetUPTOWN PLAYERS INC: $35,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetDont Ask Why: $35,250 over 5y, 18% of budgetWRITERS GARRET: $35,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $33,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $33,450 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetANITA N MARTINEZ BALLET FOLKLORIC INC: $32,250 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetJUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD: $30,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDANCE COUNCIL: $30,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetUSA FILM FESTIVAL: $29,250 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPEGASUS MUSICAL SOCIETY: $28,300 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetDALLAS BACH SOCIETY: $28,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCARA MIA THEATRE CO: $28,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPegasus Media Project: $27,250 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetSECOND THOUGHT THEATRE: $25,750 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCRY HAVOC THEATER COMPANY: $25,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetSlappy and Monday's Foundation for Laughter: $24,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFINE ARTS CHAMBER PLAYERS: $23,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetFlamenco Fever Organization: $23,250 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetDeep Vellum Publishing Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetDallas SPARK: $21,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOver the Bridge Arts: $16,250 over 2y, 33% of budgetOutLoud Dallas: $16,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLOR ME EMPOWERED: $15,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE CEDARS UNION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Taca IncCommunities Foundatio…The Eugene McDermott …The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Fichtenbaum Charitabl…Dallas Tourism Public…The Addy FoundationMarch Family Foundati…Embrey Family Foundat…Hoblitzelle FoundationRea Charitable Trust
Taca IncTX116.1× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 86 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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