· Public charity
Downtown Dallas Inc
Downtown Dallas, Inc.
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
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCKINNEY AVENUE TRANSIT AUTH | $100,000 |
| HOUSING FORWARD | $25,000 |
| HPIGSA-2B LLC | $25,000 |
| RBP ADOLPHUS LLC | $20,108 |
| THE THANKS-GIVING FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE | $18,000 |
| HEADINGTON RESOURCES | $17,200 |
| 2220 CANTON LOFTS CONDO ASSN | $11,697 |
| DF MARKET 2 LLC | $10,270 |
| RMGM BRYAN STREET LLC | $9,986 |
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 (FY21–24, $625k) 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 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.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- HFHOUSING FORWARD3× · 2021–2024 · $625k · revenue +117%
- MAMcKinney Avenue Transit Authority7× · 2017–2024 · $615k · revenue +49%
- TFTHANKSGIVING FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $84k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- COCITY OF DALLASone grant, 2020 · $100k
- BBUILDINGCOMMUNITYWORKSHOPgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +66%
- PPPARC PLAZA DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2019 · $29k
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.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…
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.…
The dallas tourism public improvement district ("dtpid") is a public improvement district dedicated to improving convention and group hotel bookings and hotel room night consumption in the city of dallas, texas.
The Forum educates, enriches and connects our community by presenting programs and events, creating experiences, and engaging global and local thought-leaders from the design fields to enhance how we live.
Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…
The dallas arts district is a coalition of artistic, educational, and commercial neighbors that work together to elevate the citys creative and economic life through the support of a vibrant, diverse, and sustainable arts district through…
Forest Forward works with the community to combat the causes and effects of systemic inequities through neighborhood revitalization that centers efforts to accelerate the advancement of marginalized people. The centerpoint of the project…
To uplift the dallas-fort worth community by issuing grants to local businesses, entrepreneurs, and impactful projects. we aim to catalyze positive change, foster development and build a thriving, interconnected city.
Dallas Center for Photography's mission is to serve as a focal point for creators and appreciators of all forms of photography through education, mentorship, exhibitions, and community outreach.
Promotion of urban planning in the greater dallas area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thanksgiving Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 35 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 HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds McKinney Avenue Transit Authority ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THANKSGIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDINGCOMMUNITYWORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Hoblitzelle Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Downtown Dallas Inc 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.