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Dallas Stars Foundation Inc

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$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$294k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.2MPhilanthropy$895kHealth$572kHuman Services$370kFood & Nutrition$353kYouth Development$171kPublic Safety & Disaster$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $1,073,548, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,164,222 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $90,674 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $472k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $544k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRO PLAYERS FOUNDATION$293,548
ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER$250,000
THE LEADERS INSTITUTE$50,000
VICKEY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$34,000
READERS 2 LEADERS$32,000
THE WALLS PROJECT$30,000
RESOURCE CENTER$25,000
V FOUNDATION$25,000
MINNIE'S FOOD PANTRY$25,000
SALOOD$20,000
LOVEPACS LITTLE ELM$20,000
UNITES HEROES LEAGUE$20,000
METROCREST SERVICES INC$20,000
TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS$20,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$15,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITY HOUSE: $10k → 5%GENAUSTIN: $7k → 10%VICKEY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 14%LOVEPACS LITTLE ELM: $20k → 5%NONPAREIL INSTITUTE: $6k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS - COLLIN COUNTY: $13k → 5%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM: $27k → 14%DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $13k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $8k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $6k → 14%WESLEY RANKIN COMMUITY CENTER: $8k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 14%IRVING CARES: $5k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $20k → 14%DALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 14%PARRISH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
OH
CA
NE
VA
TN
NC
LA
GA
TX
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 25 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
67

Total granted

$3.9M
$740k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+23%

Still filing today

84%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SP
    ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +84%
  • PP
    Pro Players Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +90% · 56% of their budget
  • GH
    GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +43%
  • AV
    AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue -17%
  • MP
    MAMMOGRAM POSTER GIRLS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue +17%
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
Young Texans Against Cancer Dallas

Young Texans Against Cancer is a network of motivated young professionals collectively working together to raise awareness and funds to support the local Dallas cancer community. The Dallas chapter was established in 2007, as part of a…

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2
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
3
Dallas Center Inc

To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.

Human Services
4
Dallas Mavericks Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
7
Dfw Cares for Kids

Provide donated items to families

Community Improvement
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
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 Scouts Legacy Foundation. 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

113 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. 113 of the 120 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/113
Grantees still filing
64/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,950,000 · OtherST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER+49 more: $748,200 · Other+49 morePro Players Foundation Inc: $1,067,252 · PhilanthropyPro Players Foundation IncCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $95,879 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF T…+5 more: $92,509 · Philanthropy+5 moreCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $58,814 · HealthAMERICAN …American Heart Association Inc: $40,000 · HealthAmerican …MAMMOGRAM POSTER GIRLS INC: $35,541 · HealthMAMMOGRAM…RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $31,003 · HealthRESOURCE …THE V FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthTHE V FOU…TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $20,000 · HealthLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $19,536 · HealthTexas Neurofibromatosis Foundation: $15,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Health+10 more: $90,629 · Health+10 moreGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · EducationWILKINSON CENTER: $105,065 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $12,750 · Education+8 more: $52,500 · EducationDefenders of Freedom: $27,357 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesLovepacs: $20,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $14,872 · Human ServicesDALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $13,332 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE: $13,247 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $13,150 · Human ServicesCITY HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPARRISH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesVICKERY MEADOW LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $8,208 · Human ServicesGENAUSTIN: $6,700 · Human Services+4 more: $17,623 · Human ServicesDALLAS STARS ELITE HOCKEY CLUB: $85,919 · Recreation & SportsDALLAS JUNIOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $21,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsALLIANCE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $12,215 · Recreation & SportsFORT WORTH DROWNING PREVENTION COALITION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsRISE ADVENTURES INC: $7,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsREADERS 2 LEADERS: $32,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP SUMMIT INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentC5 Youth Foundation of Texas Inc: $26,800 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $5,157 · Youth DevelopmentALLIANCE OF ELITE YOUTH LEADERSHIP ROBINSON: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,698,200Philanthropy$1,255,640Health$410,523Education$320,315Human Services$199,489Recreation & Sports$174,134Youth Development$108,957

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 budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,950,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetPro Players Foundation Inc: $1,067,252 over 7y, 56% of budgetGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $105,065 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $95,879 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS STARS ELITE HOCKEY CLUB: $85,919 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $58,814 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $36,025 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAMMOGRAM POSTER GIRLS INC: $35,541 over 1y, 25% of budgetVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS: $32,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $31,606 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $31,003 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SUMMIT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WALLS PROJECT: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDefenders of Freedom: $27,357 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetC5 Youth Foundation of Texas Inc: $26,800 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION: $21,720 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDALLAS JUNIOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLovepacs: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSalood inc: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $19,536 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHEROES FOR CHILDREN: $15,139 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTexas Neurofibromatosis Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPROJECTHANDUP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUEST: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $14,872 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPRIDE FRISCO: $13,332 over 2y, 15% of budgetDALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $13,332 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $13,247 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $13,150 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $12,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $12,215 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEDIPLACE INC: $10,805 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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…The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Hillcrest FoundationThe Moody FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Rees-Jones Founda…Texas Women's Foundat…Hoblitzelle FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Addy FoundationGil and Dody Weaver F…
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas IncTX68.9× affinity34 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 · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · The Moody Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Gil and Dody Weaver 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 Stars Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Stars Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    24report 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 Stars Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dallas Stars Foundation Inc 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 120 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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