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Dallas Community Foundation
The foundation provides financial support for educational, civic, recreational and cultural activities, programs, institutions, facilities and organizations and those serving youth and promoting the health, safety and general welfare principally of persons residing within the boundaries of the dallas school district.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $19,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $17,371 |
| WOU DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $5,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Dallas Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 85%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPOLK COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS & EVENTS2× · 2021–2022 · $141k
WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +81%- FOFRIENDS OF THE DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2022–2025 · $24k
Funded once
- COCity of Independenceone grant, 2021 · $26k
- DBDALLAS BOOSTER CLUB INCone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -71%
- PCPOLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $23k
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.
6 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. 6 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Marion-Polk Food Share Inc · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Maps Community Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dallas Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Family Building Blocks Inc: 68% of income from government
- Western Oregon University Development Foundation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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