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Dallas Symphony Foundation

The purpose of the DALLAS SYMPHONY FOUNDATION (dsf) is to manage and invest an endowment fund for the benefit of the dallas symphony association (75-0705442), and to make distributions to the dallas symphony association from this endowment fund. During the fiscal year ending may 31, 2025, the foundation, pursuant to a distribution policy…

$21M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,775,610
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,775,610
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$175M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Dallas Symphony Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$21M0%
FY20241$15M0%
FY20231$8.6M0%
FY20221$9.6M0%
FY20211$12M0%
FY20201$7.3M0%
FY20191$10M0%
FY20181$6.5M0%
100% 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$96M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dallas Symphony Association$96,146,961942%

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About Dallas Symphony Foundation

How much does Dallas Symphony Foundation give?
Dallas Symphony Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $20,775,610 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dallas Symphony Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Dallas Symphony Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dallas Symphony Association ($96M).
Does Dallas Symphony Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Dallas Symphony Foundation based?
Dallas Symphony Foundation is based in TX.

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 1 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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