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Dallas Margarita Society Inc

The dallas margarita society (dms) raises money in an effort to support the many local children's charities in the north texas community.

$418k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$193kHealth$106kYouth Development$95kEducation$9kReligion$8kCrime & Legal$8kEmployment$8kPublic Benefit$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $62,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $417,806 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $355,306 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$988k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POETIC$13,500
Dallas Community Fellowship$8,500
Love for Kids$6,000
Project Transformation$5,000
Bridges Safehouse$3,000
Brave like Ellie$3,000
Single Parent Advocate$3,000
Wipe Out Kids' Cancer$2,500
For Oak Cliff$2,500
Children's Advocacy Center North Texas$2,500
Ronald Mcdonald House$2,500
Soul Winners for Christ Outreach$2,500
Beacon Hill Preparatory Institute$2,500
Operation Care International$2,000
Children on the Mend$2,000
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 (FY17–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LOVE FOR KIDS: $10k → 5%Brave like Ellie: $3k → 9%LOVE FOR KIDS: $10k → 5%Children's Advocacy Center North Texas: $3k → 8%Brave like Ellie: $3k → 9%LOVE FOR KIDS: $10k → 5%Single Parent Advocate: $5k → 8%Brave like Ellie: $3k → 9%Single Parent Advocate: $3k → 8%Single Parent Advocate: $3k → 8%Birthday Party Project: $2k → 14%LOVE FOR KIDS: $12k → 14%LOVE FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%LOVE FOR KIDS: $5k → 14%Bridges Safehouse: $5k → 14%Bridges Safehouse: $3k → 14%Operation Care International: $2k → 14%Bridges Safehouse: $3k → 14%Love for Kids: $6k → 14%Love for Kids: $6k → 14%GPPD YOUTH BOXING GYM: $9k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $3k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$368k · 18 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$368k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+21%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • LF
    LOVE FOR KIDS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +52%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +93%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $35k · revenue +351%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHILDREN FIRST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -19%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN FIRST FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • CD
    Clayton Dabney Center
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
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
Child Protective Services Community Partners Inc

Community Partners of Dallas is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing what abused and neglected children urgently need today to thrive tomorrow. Children access resources via their caseworker, and the agency works closely with…

Human Services
2
Dfw Cares for Kids

Provide donated items to families

Community Improvement
3
Fort Worth Cops for Kids Inc
Youth Development
4
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
5
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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6
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
7
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
8
Partnerships for Children

To make tomorrow better than today by supporting and empowering children, youth, and families involved with child protective services.

Human Services
9
Texans Care for Children Inc

Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…

Crime & Legal
10
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
11
Dallas Kids First

Dallas kids first elevates dialogue on the impact of school board leadership for kids in dallas isd and supports school board elections with focus on outcomes for kids.

Human Services
12
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Advocacy Center for North Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mgk Productions Inc. 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

32 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALLAS POLICE YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $64,360 · Human ServicesDALLAS POLICE YOUTH FOUNDATION INCLOVE FOR KIDS INC: $64,041 · Human ServicesLOVE FOR KIDS INCPOETIC: $13,500 · Human ServicesPOETICBRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesBRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INCSINGLE PARENT ADVOCATE: $11,000 · Human ServicesSINGLE PARENT ADVOCATEBrave Like Ellie: $8,500 · Human Services+3 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC: $37,850 · OtherDALLAS COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP …Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc: $15,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House of Dal…CHILDREN FIRST INC: $10,000 · OtherCHILDREN FIRST INCQUEST FOR GREATER SUCCESS INC: $7,500 · OtherQUEST FOR GREATER SUCCESS IN…THE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECT: $7,000 · OtherTHE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECTClayton Dabney Center: $7,000 · OtherClayton Dabney CenterSOULS WINNER FOR CHRIST OUTREACH: $5,500 · OtherCHURCH OF FAITH INC: $5,000 · OtherWIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC: $5,000 · OtherCHILDREN ON THE MEND: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $3,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $55,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MED…CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER…THE CHILDREN FIRST FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN FIRST FOUNDA…PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP SUMMIT INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHASE'S PLACE INC: $6,000 · EducationBEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $2,500 · EducationCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$181,901Other$107,850Health$98,000Youth Development$31,000Education$8,500Housing & Shelter$4,000Crime & Legal$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDALLAS POLICE YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $64,360 over 6y, 37% of budgetLOVE FOR KIDS INC: $64,041 over 8y, 17% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Dallas Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPOETIC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC: $12,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSINGLE PARENT ADVOCATE: $11,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBrave Like Ellie: $8,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECT: $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP SUMMIT INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHASE'S PLACE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION CARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Communities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…The Dallas FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Addy FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationTheodore and Beulah B…Texas Women's Foundat…The Moody Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX36.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody 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 Margarita Society Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Margarita Society Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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