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Dallas Development Fund

See schedule othe DALLAS DEVELOPMENT FUND is organized for the purpose of aiding, assisting, and acting on behalf of the city of dallas, texas in the the performance of its governmental functions to promote the common good and general welfare of the city, including, without limitiation, for the benefit of, and to assist in carrying out…

$5.5M
Granted FY2021
401
Grants FY2021
—
States reached
$15k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Public Safety & Disaster$4.0MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$506kFood & Nutrition$138kArts & Culture$115kRecreation & Sports$115kCrime & Legal$52kCommunity Improvement$40kOther$0
02FY2021 · 401 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 401 grants below total $5,256,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,479,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $223,200 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k50 grants · $349k
  • $10k–50k351 grants · $4.9M
$15,000
Median grant
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States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TDD DALLAS LLC DBA THE DOUGH DOUGH$15,000
FRED'S FOREIGN CAR SERVICE INC DBA METROPOLITAN MOTORCARS$15,000
RECYCLE REVOLUTION LLC$15,000
AMBER CHENIQUE WILLIAMS DBA LE ROUGE CUISINE FOOD COMPANY$15,000
CHRISTI AHN DBA CELEBRATION CO$15,000
PRECISE PUMP FLUID CORP$15,000
DATA AND PRODUCTS MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC$15,000
SAMIRA ENTERPRISE INC DBA AVANTI$15,000
IN STYLE STAGING LLC$15,000
ROOT DOWN LLC DBA CRYSTAL CLEAR SOUND$15,000
JOURNEY TOWARDS WHOLENESS CORP$15,000
KHK ENTERPRISES INC DBA SIGNS USA TX$15,000
CIVIL POUR LLC$15,000
MEGA WHOLESALE INC DBA MEGA IMPORT$15,000
AVIATION CINEMAS INC DBA THE TEXAS THEATRE$15,000
02Its field
03the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 494 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+198 more: $2,970,000 · Other+198 moreASCEND DALLAS: $25,000 · Human ServicesLIFTFUND INC: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,970,000Human Services$25,000Community Improvement$25,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetASCEND DALLAS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIFTFUND INC: $25,000 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.

  • Who funds ASCEND DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds LIFTFUND INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Local Initiatives Sup…
Local Initiatives Support CorporationNY1.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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 494 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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