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Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts at a glance

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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.

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8.6M
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$22MEducation$2.2MCommunity Improvement$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,557,956
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY$8,557,956
WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA$8,557,956
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$1,665,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.7M → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $175k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $110k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $27k → 16%GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: $30k → 7%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $26k → 16%GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: $30k → 7%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $26k → 16%GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: $30k → 7%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $26k → 16%WETA: $30k → 7%GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: $30k → 7%GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: $30k → 7%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $8.6M → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $100k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $100k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $100k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $100k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $100k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $100k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $93k → 14%WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $90k → 14%NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF WASHING: $52k → 14%NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF WASHING: $52k → 14%NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF WASHING: $52k → 14%NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF WASHING: $52k → 14%NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF WASHING: $52k → 14%NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF WASHING: $52k → 14%NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF WASHING: $48k → 14%NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF WASHING: $45k → 14%WASHINGTON BALLET: $53k → 14%WASHINGTON BALLET: $53k → 14%WASHINGTON BALLET: $53k → 14%WASHINGTON BALLET: $53k → 14%WASHINGTON BALLET: $53k → 14%WASHINGTON BALLET: $53k → 14%WASHINGTON BALLET: $43k → 14%WASHINGTON BALLET: $40k → 14%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $8.6M → 14%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $95k → 14%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $95k → 14%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $95k → 14%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $95k → 14%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $95k → 14%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $95k → 14%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $83k → 14%WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $79k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 55 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
3

Total granted

$25M
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+79%

Still filing today

87%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WN
    WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.3M · revenue ×23 · 95% of their budget
  • WP
    WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.3M · revenue +45%
  • Cornell University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +79%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • FS
    FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
District of Columbia Arts Center

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…

Arts & Culture
2
The Washington Conservatory of Music

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.

Arts & Culture
3
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Center Stage Associates Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Thirteen

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,…

Unclassified
6
Maryland Lyric Opera
Arts & Culture
7
Classic Theatre of Maryland Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
The Arlington Chorale

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

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…

Arts & Culture
10
The Washington Mens Camerata Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Inc

The mission of the baltimore chamber orchestra is to move, inspire, and provide educational opportunities to baltimore's community through world-class performances.

Arts & Culture
12
Theater Alliance of Washington Dc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Performing Arts Society; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
39/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $9,340,956 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERAWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $9,294,956 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY+41 more: $3,030,700 · Arts & Culture+41 moreCornell University: $2,208,000 · EducationCornell Un…+1 more: $2,800 · EducationNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF WASHING: $405,000 · OtherFRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB INC: $34,800 · OtherDANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON: $33,000 · OtherNATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & CHORALE OF MONTG: $26,800 · OtherCANTATE CHAMBER SINGERS INC: $26,300 · OtherCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT O: $25,900 · Other+6 more: $49,300 · OtherBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $37,800 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$21,666,612Education$2,210,800Other$601,100Community Improvement$37,800

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 budgetWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $9,340,956 over 9y, 95% of budgetWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $9,294,956 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetCornell University: $2,208,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $401,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $231,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $189,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLEVINE MUSIC INC: $169,300 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS: $119,800 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $118,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $113,800 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc: $112,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $95,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $79,800 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPAFRIKA USA INC: $77,800 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetDANCE PLACE: $77,300 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $77,200 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON CONCERT OPERA: $75,800 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $73,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetIN SERIES INC: $70,300 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $69,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DANCE EXCHANGE INC: $64,800 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetCATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC: $60,800 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe Washington Chorus Inc: $54,800 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetDC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM: $47,300 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON BACH CONSORT INC: $45,800 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetIMAGINATION STAGE INC: $45,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDC JAZZ FESTIVAL: $42,800 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPOST CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE INC: $39,800 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $39,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $39,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $37,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY: $36,800 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC: $36,800 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $35,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB INC: $34,800 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetOLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION INC: $33,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON: $33,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetADVENTURE THEATRE INC: $30,800 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCapital Fringe Inc: $30,800 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetVOCAL ARTS SOCIETY: $28,800 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetJOY OF MOTION DANCE CENTER INC: $26,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCANTATE CHAMBER SINGERS INC: $26,300 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetSynetic Theater Inc: $26,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNEW DOMINION CHORALE INC: $23,800 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetD C ARTS AND HUMANITIES EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC: $23,800 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS: $23,800 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $23,300 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTEATRO DE LA LUNA: $16,000 over 7y, 1.7% 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 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 WASHINGTON BACH CONSORT INC ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINATION STAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds DC JAZZ FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds POST CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds CITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Dimick Foundation Joh…Clark-Winchcole Found…Nora Roberts Foundati…Max & Victoria Dreyfu…Latino Economic Devel…United Way of the Nat…Mid Atlantic Arts IncGalena-Yorktown Found…William S Abell Found…Philip L Graham Fund …
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC75.7× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 58 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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