· Private foundation
Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY | $8,557,956 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA | $8,557,956 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $1,665,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
55 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WNWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA9× · 2017–2025 · $9.3M · revenue +14% · 28% of their budget
- WPWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $9.3M · revenue +45%
Cornell University9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +59%
Funded once
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +79%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- FSFOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
The washington conservatory of music provides exceptional musical learning & listening experiences for students and the community. its vision is a community inspired and informed by the experience of music.
The mission of the Washington Center is to inspire audiences and artists of all ages through live performances, enriching the vibrancy of our community. The Washington center for the performing arts was created from a belief that a…
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
The Thirteen is a professional choir and orchestra with a mission to inspire the soul to sing, move the heart to empathy, and build community, all through groundbreaking musical performance: through concerts, workshops, education outreach,…
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
The Chorale's mission is to create a rich cultural experience for the community by performing high-quality concerts that showcase well-known pieces and also introduce our audiences to compelling new works.
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
Washington Men's Camerata celebrates the unique beauty and power of men's choral music by consistently pursuing artistic excellence; expanding the breadth of its music, membership, and audiences; and building community among its members…
The mission of the baltimore chamber orchestra is to move, inspire, and provide educational opportunities to baltimore's community through world-class performances.
It is the mission of the Theater Alliance of Washington DC to develop, produce, and present socially conscious, thought-provoking work that fully engages the community in active dialogue.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Performing Arts Society and the most unlike its peers is Cornell University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEPAFRIKA USA INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
- Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA ↗
- Who funds Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds IN SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds The Washington Chorus Inc ↗
- Who funds DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON BACH CONSORT INC ↗
- Who funds DC JAZZ FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds POST CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds CITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Capital Fringe Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Latino Economic Development Corporation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Adventure Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Olney Theatre Corporation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.