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Dallas Regional Chamber

Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.

$270k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Public Benefit$285kEducation$112kHousing & Shelter$100kCommunity Improvement$95kPhilanthropy$83kEmployment$75kScience & Tech$45kCivil Rights$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
$48,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dallas Education Foundation$66,659
2024 Dallas Bond Campaign PAC$50,000
Communities Foundation Of Texas Inc$48,000
D O C Cares Inc$40,000
Together for Dallas$35,000
For Oak Cliff$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $50k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $25k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $10k → 14%The Concilio: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
04Your field

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.

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Dallas Innovation Alliance

The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a 501(c)(3) public-private consortium of public, private, civic and academia to support smart city initiatives in Dallas. Our definition of a Smart City is one at the intersection of community, data…

Community Improvement
2
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
3
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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4
Dallas Education Collective

To improve the Dallas public education system by raising and deploying capital to institutions in the most disadvantaged areas of the city.

Public Benefit
5
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…

Community Improvement
6
Alliance of Dallas Educators Inc

Alliance of Dallas Educators is a labor union representing the teachers of Dallas ISD that champions fairness, dignity, and equal opportunity for all members as well as a high-quality public education for all students.

Employment
7
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
8
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
9
Community Does It

CommunitY Does It is a nonprofit organization that applies Community-Based Participatory Action research methods (CBPAR) and grassroots organizing principles to engage and empower members of marginalized populations in Dallas to co-lead…

Human Services
10
Greenspace Dallas

Improving public and park land communities using educational and vocational training for underserved youth.

Environment
11
Dfw Thrives

To uplift the dallas-fort worth community by issuing grants to local businesses, entrepreneurs, and impactful projects. we aim to catalyze positive change, foster development and build a thriving, interconnected city.

Community Improvement
12
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Development Fund and the most unlike its peers is Doc Cares 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Dallas Votes 4 Kids — $150,000 · OtherDallas Votes 4 KidsBETTER TRAINING BETTER JOBS PAC — $75,000 · OtherBETTER TRAINING BETTER JOBS PAC2024 Dallas Bond Campaign PAC — $50,000 · Other2024 Dallas Bond Campaign PACCITY OF DALLAS — $50,000 · OtherCITY OF DALLASInland Port Transportation Management Association — $40,000 · OtherInland Port Transportation Management AssociationTogether for Dallas — $35,000 · OtherTogether for DallasCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB — $25,000 · OtherLOS BARRIOS UNIDOS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $25,000 · OtherAlliance for Higher Education dba Texas Research Alliance — $25,000 · OtherUNIV OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON — $20,000 · Other+1 more — $10,000 · OtherHOUSING FORWARD — $50,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FORW…FOR OAK CLIFF — $35,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CLIF…PROJECT STILL I RISE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT STIL…THE CONCILIO — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONCILIOCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $83,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIE…DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $76,659 · EducationDALLAS ED…INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES PROJECT — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterDOC Cares Inc — $40,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Community ImprovementPuede Network — $10,000 · Community ImprovementDALLAS DEVELOPMENT FUND — $30,000 · Health
Other$505,000Human Services$105,000Philanthropy$83,000Education$76,659Housing & Shelter$50,000Civil Rights$40,000Community Improvement$35,000Health$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDallas Votes 4 Kids — $150,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $83,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $76,659 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetINCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDOC Cares Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetTogether for Dallas — $35,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDALLAS DEVELOPMENT FUND — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLOS BARRIOS UNIDOS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for Higher Education dba Texas Research Alliance — $25,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetPROJECT STILL I RISE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE CONCILIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…The Eugene McDermott …Hoblitzelle FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…The Constantin Founda…Clay Jenkins Family F…Boone Family Foundati…George & Fay Young Fo…
The Dallas FoundationTX24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Constantin Foundation Inc · Clay Jenkins Family Foundation · Boone Family Foundation · George & Fay Young Foundation Inc

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 Regional Chamber 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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