· Public charity
David M Crowley Foundation
The organization is operated exclusively for the benefit of charitable and educational organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k14 grants · $303k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| Good Shepherd Episcopal School | $500,000 |
| The Stewpot | $500,000 |
| North Texas Food Bank | $400,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $350,000 |
| AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $235,000 |
| THE MAGDALEN HOUSE | $200,000 |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help | $180,000 |
| Grant Haliburton FOUNDATION INC | $135,000 |
| Dallas Symphony | $106,000 |
| OUR FRIEND'S PLACE | $105,000 |
| Genesis Shelter | $101,000 |
| Visiting Nurses Association | $100,000 |
| Brother Bills | $100,000 |
| The Dallas Opera | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k 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
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +105%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +429%
- ATAdaptive Training Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +88% · 66% of their budget
Funded once
- HPHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $200k
- NFNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFEone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +6%
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
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…
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.…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.
Dallas Bethlehem Center supports families living in our South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood through education, health & wellness programs and technology supports.
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…
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
Our mission is to provide accessible high-quality counseling, training, psychological evaluations, and educational testing that equip our clients to grow through lifes changes and challenges.
Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Connecting Point of Park Cities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 96 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 NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Training Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MAGDALEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds OUR FRIENDS PLACE ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Episcopal School ↗
- Who funds Attitudes & Attire ↗
- Who funds GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MULTILINGUAL PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF DALLAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds BONTON ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds Artist Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE STEPS ↗
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 Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · The Perot Foundation
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 David M Crowley Foundation 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.
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.