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Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc.

$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$729kHousing & Shelter$690kCommunity Improvement$344kRecreation & Sports$192kReligion$84kFood & Nutrition$40kHuman Services$30kScience & Tech$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCKINNEY AVENUE TRANSIT AUTH$100,000
HPIGSA-2B LLC$25,000
HOUSING FORWARD$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALL: $500k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $100k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD: $25k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 10 repeat orgs$516k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
20

Total granted

$1.7M
$433k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+66%

Still filing today

70%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementReligionPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • HF
    HOUSING FORWARD
    3× · 2021–2024 · $625k · revenue +117%
  • MA
    McKinney Avenue Transit Authority
    7× · 2017–2024 · $615k · revenue +49%
  • TF
    THANKSGIVING FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $84k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF DALLAS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • B
    BUILDINGCOMMUNITYWORKSHOPgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +66%
  • PP
    PARC PLAZA DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $29k
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
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
3
Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
4
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
5
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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6
Dallas Architecture Forum

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Forest Forward

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…

Community Improvement
8
Downtown Dallas Inc

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.…

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9
Dfw Thrives

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.

Community Improvement
10
Dallas Police Helicopter Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
11
Greater Dallas Planning Council

Promotion of urban planning in the greater dallas area.

Community Improvement
12
Dallas Development Fund

See schedule othe dallas development fund is organized for the purpose of aiding, assisting, and acting on behalf of the city of dallas, texas in the the performance of its governmental functions to promote the common good and general…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

McKinney Avenue Transit Authority: $615,000 · OtherMcKinney Avenue Transit AuthorityCITY OF DALLAS: $100,000 · OtherCITY OF DALLASFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DALLAS: $41,621 · Other+24 more: $437,602 · Other+24 moreHOUSING FORWARD: $625,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FORWARDDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY: $99,000 · Community ImprovementDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $42,459 · Arts & CultureDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $36,808 · Arts & CultureDALLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $19,638 · Arts & CultureTHANKSGIVING FOUNDATION: $84,000 · ReligionDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyBUILDINGCOMMUNITYWORKSHOP: $35,000 · Education
Other$1,194,223Human Services$625,000Community Improvement$99,000Arts & Culture$98,905Religion$84,000Philanthropy$50,000Education$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $625,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetMcKinney Avenue Transit Authority: $615,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY: $99,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHANKSGIVING FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $42,459 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $36,808 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDINGCOMMUNITYWORKSHOP: $35,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetDALLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $19,638 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS TREES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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 FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Hoblitzelle FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Dallas Tourism Public…The Eugene McDermott …Meadows Foundation IncThe Moody FoundationDallas Jewish Communi…Texas Instruments Fou…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
The Dallas FoundationTX21.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Downtown Dallas Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Downtown Dallas Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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