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Dallas Mavericks Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$733k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$2.0MYouth Development$920kHealth$725kHousing & Shelter$495kFood & Nutrition$403kEducation$394kCrime & Legal$285kReligion$155kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $550k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$150,000
TEXAS NATIVE HEALTH$50,000
READING PARTNERS$50,000
GIRLSTART$50,000
VIOLA'S HOUSE$50,000
TEXAS ADVOCACY PROJECT$50,000
AGAPE CLINIC$50,000
JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
HOPE COTTAGE$50,000
GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT$31,868
GIRLS INC OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$20,938
AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS$10,000
FIRST RESPONDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
WIPE OUT KIDS CANCER$10,000
CHILDREN AND FAMILY INSTITUTE$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VICTIMS FIRST INC: $50k → 14%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $10k → 11%MASTER CARES FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $25k → 5%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $152k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $100k → 14%TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $50k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE: $50k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $31k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $25k → 14%HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS: $25k → 14%DALLAS AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 14%NETWORK COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%VIOLA'S HOUSE: $50k → 14%I LOOK LIKE LOVE INC: $50k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $45k → 14%VIOLA'S HOUSE: $25k → 14%MHMR VISIONS: $100k → 11%OUR CALLING INC: $25k → 14%FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC: $50k → 14%UNDER 1 ROOF: $15k → 14%YOUTH 180 INC: $25k → 14%FOSTER KIDS CHARITY: $25k → 14%TEXAS NATIVE HEALTH: $50k → 14%DWELL WITH DIGNTY: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $25k → 14%DWELL WITH DIGNTY: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $11k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%BOLD IDEA: $19k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $112k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $25k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $20k → 14%THE CONCILO: $25k → 14%SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $50k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $15k → 14%DALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $25k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES: $15k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $21k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $150k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $32k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $25k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $20k → 14%SOUTHERN DALLAS LINK: $25k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $25k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $25k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $20k → 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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 44 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

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

44 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
106

Total granted

$2.7M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+8%

Still filing today

80%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $402k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • YO
    YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +57%
  • AC
    AGAPE CLINIC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +88%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2023 · $95k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER EAST DALLAS
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
  • LW
    LYNN W ROSS JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +505%
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
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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2
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…

Employment
3
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
4
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
5
Dallas Services

The mission of Dallas Services is to enable individuals with disabilities and other special needs to achieve their potential by fostering community inclusiveness and independence.

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6
Community Council of Greater Dallas

The community council provides leadership in moving individuals and families from surviving to thriving. we improve quality of life by alleviating poverty, fostering independence and wellness and connecting people to the resources they…

Human Services
7
Elevate North Texas

Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming and affirming environment for youth 18-24 experiencing homelessness providing short-term housing and case management. Elevate North Texas addresses youth homelessness from two angles: a hotel program…

Health
8
Hope's Door New Beginning Center

The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…

Human Services
9
Dallas County Family Resource Center

The mission of Dallas County Family Resource Center is to provide programs to improve the quality of resources and well-being of the children and families in the community by intake, assessment, and referral of those in need to available…

Human Services
10
Bridge Steps

To empower adults experiencing homelessness in dallas with the tools to homeless recovery as they move into sustainable housing.

Food & Nutrition
11
COMMIT2DALLAS

Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher…

Education
12
UnBound North Texas

Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Wipe Out Kids' Cancer 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

127 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. 127 of the 167 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/127
Grantees still filing
77/127
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER EAST DALLAS: $150,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER EAST DALLASLYNN W ROSS JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER: $150,000 · OtherLYNN W ROSS JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL: $101,612 · OtherDALLAS COUNTY JUVENILE DEPARTMENT: $100,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $95,025 · Other+75 more: $2,150,196 · Other+75 moreBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $283,126 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INCYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $195,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INCFOR OAK CLIFF: $131,906 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CLIFFMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICES: $80,000 · Human ServicesVIOLAS HOUSE: $75,000 · Human ServicesDWELL WITH DIGNITY INC: $75,000 · Human Services+43 more: $1,213,249 · Human Services+43 moreAGAPE CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $75,000 · HealthRAINBOW DAYS INC: $60,000 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $50,000 · HealthNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $25,000 · HealthNEURO ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $25,000 · HealthHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · HealthHOPEKIDS INC: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $20,000 · HealthMISSION METROPLEX INC: $78,238 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · PhilanthropyVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $48,796 · PhilanthropyDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $25,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationBONTON ENTERPRISES: $25,000 · EducationGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $25,000 · EducationDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationUPLIFT EDUCATION: $10,000 · EducationWILKINSON CENTER: $10,000 · EducationHOUSE OF SHINE INC: $10,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $7,600 · EducationFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME POINT: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF ELI INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE HOUSE INC: $10,420 · Housing & ShelterNEW DAY: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $31,612 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $31,612 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TEXAS SUPREMACY OF MUSIC AND ARTS CONSERVATORY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHOCOLATE MINT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,746,833Human Services$2,153,281Health$425,000Philanthropy$272,034Education$222,600Housing & Shelter$210,420Youth Development$143,224

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 budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $283,126 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $195,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF: $131,906 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAGAPE CLINIC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $95,025 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $87,858 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $80,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION METROPLEX INC: $78,238 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAFTER8TOEDUCATE: $75,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetVIOLAS HOUSE: $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDWELL WITH DIGNITY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetRAINBOW DAYS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOME POINT: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDALLAS CASA: $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVictims First Inc: $53,375 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetI LOOK LIKE LOVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSM Wright Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetONE MAN'S TREASURE: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $48,796 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Family Place: $45,812 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $44,961 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONCILIO: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $35,621 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC: $31,612 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOLD IDEA INC: $31,612 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $31,612 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEDIPLACE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH 180 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

United Way of Metropo…Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…The Rees-Jones Founda…Hoblitzelle FoundationThe Addy FoundationThe Moody FoundationKatherine C Carmody C…Meadows Foundation Inc
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas IncTX102.1× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Meadows Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dallas Mavericks Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dallas Mavericks Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 167 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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