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Dallas Family Foundation at a glance

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Dallas Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$102k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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 2019.

Education$197kReligion$16kYouth Development$13kHealth$5kHuman Services$3kAnimals$1kRecreation & Sports$1kFood & Nutrition$500
02FY2019 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k3 grants · $2k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTENARY COLLEGE$100,000
THE BRIDGE ACADEMY$1,000
FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST$1,000
DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY$150
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 (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CERTIFIED FITNESS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $500 → 4%VET REST: $500 → 4%FRANCISCAN CHARITIES: $1k → 16%CERTIFIED FITNESS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $250 → 4%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IN
PA
NJ
CA
NC
DC
AL
FL
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 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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
St Vincent Depaul Rehabilitation Service of Texas Inc

Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

Employment
3
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
4
Alzheimer's Family Services Center

To improve the quality of life for families challenged by alzheimer's disease or another dementia, through services tailored to meet individual needs.

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5
Disabled American Veterans - Dept of Nj

Assistance to disabled american veterans including assistance with claims, information and literature and assist local chapters and coordinate state convention

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6
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Accelerate improvements in global health and well-being through food and nutrition.

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7
Alliance for Independence Inc

Offering individuals with disabilities the avenues to explore and experience personal growth and achievement through awareness, education, community resources, and personal relationships.

Human Services
8
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc

The mission of the alzheimer's foundation of america (afa) is to provide support, services, and education to individuals, families and caregivers affected by alzheimer's disease and related dementias nationwide, and fund research for…

Health
9
International Society for Bipolar Disorders

To foster international collaboration in education, research and clinical care to improve the lives of those with bipolar disorder and related conditions.

Health
10
Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Inc

To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents, and survivors.

Human Services
11
Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Inc

To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents and survivors.

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12
Garden Academy Inc

Garden academy, inc. uses scientific data-based and accountable interventions to provide an individualized education to students with autism, so that they may lead lives of the greatest possible independence. we are committed to helping…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Special Olympics Inc; the most unlike its peers is Broadreach Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTENARY COLLEGE: $176,000 · OtherCENTENARY COLLEGECHABAD OF HUNTERDON COUNTY INC: $15,000 · OtherCHABAD OF HUNTERDON COUNTY INCKPARTNERZ FOUNDATION: $12,500 · OtherKPARTNERZ FOUNDATION+5 more: $8,650 · OtherBROADREACH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationBROADREACH…THE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $1,000 · EducationFRANCISCAN CHARITIES: $1,000 · Human ServicesCERTIFIED FITNESS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $750 · Human ServicesVET R E S T: $500 · Human ServicesINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $250 · Recreation & SportsALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 · Health
Other$212,150Education$21,000Human Services$2,250Recreation & Sports$250Health$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRANCISCAN CHARITIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCERTIFIED FITNESS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetINDIANA SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $150 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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 · 0–10%
    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 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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