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Dill Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$291k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
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$480kRecreation & Sports$270kHuman Services$138kReligion$85kPhilanthropy$75kYouth Development$73kHealth$28kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS$60,000
SMU DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS$50,000
BISHOP KELLEY HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
TULSA BOYS' HOME$25,000
ALCUIN SCHOOL$25,000
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
READERS 2 LEADERS$20,000
PER SCHOLAS$15,000
DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL$15,000
DALLAS CASA$15,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$10,500
THE SANDLOT CHILDREN'S CHARITY$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Dill Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dill Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$862k · 9 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$862k
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+8%

Still filing today

44%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsEmploymentHealthOther
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

  • TULSA BOYS' HOME INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +33%
  • AS
    ALCUIN SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +13%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC
    3× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY CATHEDRALELEVATE
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • SM
    SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • LA
    LIFE AFTER BALL PROGRAM (SMU DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS)
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
3
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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4
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
5
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
6
Trinity Charter School

The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…

Education
7
Fort Worth Academy for the Education of Children and Youth

Education of children and youth

Education
8
Dallas Childrens Theater Inc

The mission of dallas children's theater is to inspire young people to creative and productive lives through the art of theater.to give rise to inspiring theater, dallas children's theater:- creates and produces innovative professional…

Arts & Culture
9
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
10
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
11
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
12
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

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 Little Light House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BISHOP KELLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $240,000 · OtherBISHOP KELLEY HIGH SCHOOLSMU DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS: $175,000 · OtherSMU DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $78,000 · OtherTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CATHEDRALELEVATE: $30,000 · OtherSAN MIGUEL SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherLIFE AFTER BALL PROGRAM (SMU DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS): $25,000 · Other+8 more: $96,000 · Other+8 moreTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $137,000 · Human ServicesTULSA BOYS' HO…DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDRE…ALCUIN SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationALCUIN SCHO…The University of Tulsa: $15,000 · EducationThe Univers…FOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC: $15,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HO…DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationDALLAS AFTE…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $71,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…READERS 2 LEADERS: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADERS 2 …WARREN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS CASA: $15,000 · Civil RightsPER SCHOLAS INC: $15,000 · EmploymentAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,500 · Health
Other$699,000Human Services$152,000Education$120,000Youth Development$106,500Philanthropy$75,000Civil Rights$15,000Employment$15,000Health$10,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTULSA BOYS' HOME INC: $137,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWARREN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetALCUIN SCHOOL: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $71,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds WARREN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALCUIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds READERS 2 LEADERS ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
  • Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗

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.

The Dallas FoundationTX15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Dill Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dill Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The University of Tulsa: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 27 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-PF 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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