· Private foundation
Dream Alliance
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN FIRST | $35,000 |
| TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| Volunteers of America - Texas | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,450 |
| THEATER ARLINGTON | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Girls Inc | $10,000 |
| COMMUMITY GARDEN KITCHEN | $8,000 |
| Community Lifeline Center | $7,500 |
| Community Food Pantry of McKinney | $7,500 |
| Boys Girls Clubs of Collin County | $7,500 |
| Streetside Showers | $7,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN CO | $7,500 |
| Farmhouse Fresh Animal Sanctuary | $7,500 |
| Cloud covered Streets | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 89% of Dream Alliance’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 100%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -75% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 17 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATarrant Area Food Bank2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +23%
- TATHEATRE ARLINGTON INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +14%
- OKOPERATION KINDNESS2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- KOKnights of Columbus dba Central Texone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BFBlanco FFA Booster Club Incone grant, 2022 · $5k
- T4Texas 4-H Foundation Blanco Countyone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
Uniting volunteers to prepare meals that get delivered to the food insecure
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.
Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.
Our mission is simple: end pet hunger! with online and mail in donations as well as event fundraising, we eliminate food scarcity as a barrier to caring for homeless pets in north america. partnering with food distributors, together we can…
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
Reduce hunger and help the environment by connecting surplus food with our neighbors in need.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
The organization provides food and other supportive services to local residents in arlington, texas who are in need of assistance.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CHILDREN FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ARLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIFELINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds STREETSIDE SHOWERS INC ↗
- Who funds FARMHOUSE FRESH ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds KENDALL COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK ASSOCIAT ↗
- Who funds CLOUD COVERED STREETS ↗
- Who funds CODYS FRIENDS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE GRACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dream Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dream Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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