· Private foundation
Dickson-Allen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAVACA EXOSITION ASSOCIATION | $785,000 |
| LAVACA MEDICAL CENTER | $365,000 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $310,000 |
| THE WITTE MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| THE VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $191,000 |
| LAVACA COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $140,000 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $130,000 |
| THE TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $125,000 |
| K4 ENTERPRISES | $100,000 |
| HALLETTSVILLE ISD | $100,000 |
| APPELT'S HILL GUN CLUB | $93,880 |
| Individual grant recipient | $85,000 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $75,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $382k) 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 23 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $634k 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
- LELAVACA EXPOSITION ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +48% · 83% of their budget
- WMWitte Museum5× · 2020–2024 · $900k · revenue +370%
- TUTrinity University5× · 2020–2024 · $690k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- LCLAVACA COUNTY COMMUNITY CONNECTIONSone grant, 2020 · $155k
- TATEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCESone grant, 2020 · $75k
- VSVYSEHRAD SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Management and operation of the arboretum.
To collect and preserve significant historical materials that relate to the early history and culture of Texas and to promote the study of the history of Texas through exhibits, publications, and educational programs.
The Museum of Western Art in the Texas Hill Country is dedicated to excellence in the collection, preservation and display of Western art.
To educate the public about forestry and preserve the history of the forestry industry.
Preservation and education of history and historical items of interest for the citizens and visitors of sherman, tx.
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
Operation of the texas zoo in victoria, texas and connect people with the wildlife from texas and the rest of the world, for nature and advance conservation through education, recreation, science and action. the mission is accomplished…
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Mc Daniel Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 159 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 LAVACA EXPOSITION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HALLETTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAVACA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GARWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Lucies Project ↗
- Who funds Morgan's Wonderland ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET HOME VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds ROCK ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Turtle Wing Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOSTER PARENTS OF VICTORIA INC ↗
- Who funds BLINN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Fayette Resale Incorporated · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Gvec Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · RICHTER RESPONSIBILITY FUND FKA Holt Family 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 Dickson-Allen 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.
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