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Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

Downtown Dallas, Inc.

$275k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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.

Public Safety & Disaster$2.4MHealth$307kRecreation & Sports$300kEducation$263kArts & Culture$175kHousing & Shelter$25k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $265k
$115,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$753k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALLAS CENTRAL LIBRARY$150,000
WEST END ASSOCIATION$115,000
NORTH TX BUSINESS COUNCIL$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DALLAS SAFETY PATROL INC: $2.4M → 14%PARKS FOR DOWNTOWN DALLAS: $300k → 14%WEST END ASSOCIATION: $115k → 14%DOWNTOWN DALLAS INC: $25k → 14%MCKINNEY AVENUE TRANSIT AUTHO: $50k → 14%NORTH TX BUSINESS COUNCIL: $10k → 14%DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $93k → 14%DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT: $307k → 14%DALLAS CENTRAL LIBRARY: $150k → 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 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
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
2
Greater Dallas Planning Council

Promotion of urban planning in the greater dallas area.

Community Improvement
3
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
4
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
5
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
6
Dallas Education Collective

To improve the Dallas public education system by raising and deploying capital to institutions in the most disadvantaged areas of the city.

Public Benefit
7
Dallas Innovation Alliance

The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a 501(c)(3) public-private consortium of public, private, civic and academia to support smart city initiatives in Dallas. Our definition of a Smart City is one at the intersection of community, data…

Community Improvement
8
Downtown Development Corporation of Tucson Arizona
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9
Dallas Arts District Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Downtown Austin Development Corporation

To enhance the downtown area of Austin, Texas, and to support and implement the Downtown Vision of the Austin DMO, Inc. d.b.a. Downtown Austin Alliance and implement services and projects benficial to Downtown Austin, including parks…

Environment
11
Downtown Development Foundation

Funding for cheyenne dda

Community Improvement
12
Greenspace Dallas

Improving public and park land communities using educational and vocational training for underserved youth.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downtown Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is McKinney Avenue Transit Authority. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOWNTOWN SAFETY PATROL INC: $2,433,982 · OtherDOWNTOWN SAFETY PATROL INCDALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT: $306,849 · OtherDALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSITCITY OF DALLAS: $150,000 · OtherWEST END ASSOCIATION: $115,000 · Other+2 more: $75,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY: $300,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN …DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $93,281 · EducationCITYLAB HS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationNORTH TEXAS BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS DBA BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,080,831Community Improvement$300,000Education$113,281Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetDOWNTOWN SAFETY PATROL INC: $2,433,982 over 1y, 98% of budgetDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY: $300,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $93,281 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMcKinney Avenue Transit Authority: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITYLAB HS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNORTH TEXAS BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS DBA BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 10 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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