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Dsc Foundation Inc

To serve the mission and vision of the dallas safari club and to promote, establish and conduct science based research supporting sustainable use wildlife conservation and the role of well regulated hunting.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$117k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Animals$1.6MEnvironment$882kCrime & Legal$250kRecreation & Sports$147kYouth Development$88kEducation$51kFood & Nutrition$20kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $419,175, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,219,309 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $800,134 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $201k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $212k
$22,590
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUTDOORS TOMORROW FOUNDATION$117,303
BLOOD ORIGINS INC$95,000
PHILMONT SCOUT RANCH$28,000
CONSERVATION FORCE$27,553
TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE$26,575
TEXAS WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$25,000
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTMEN FOUNDATION$22,590
WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT$21,970
THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC$15,000
SCHOLASTIC SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION$14,590
BORDERLANDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE$10,000
TEXAS BIGHORN SOCIETY$10,000
UTAH DIVISION OF WILDLIFE RESOURCES$5,594
02The need
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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 (FY19–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KIDS OUTDOOR ZONE: $10k → 10%RIVER DEEP FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
ND
NY
OR
WY
IA
PA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $729k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$629k · 86% · 17 grants

Stated purpose: FUNDING OF ANTI-POACHING IN MOZAMBIQUE · FOR CONSERVATION, EDUCATION AND ANTI-POACHING EFFORTS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$75k · 10% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: FOR CONSERVATION, EDUCATION AND ANTI-POACHING EFFORTS

South America$15k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: FOR CONSERVATION, EDUCATION AND ANTI-POACHING EFFORTS

East Asia and the Pacific$10k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: FOR CONSERVATION, EDUCATION AND ANTI-POACHING EFFORTS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 21 repeat orgs$660k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$2.4M
$595k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+79%

Still filing today

81%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CF
    CONSERVATION FORCE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $645k · revenue +43%
  • DE
    DALLAS ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2024 · $317k · revenue +122%
  • TO
    THE ORIGINS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $114k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • DS
    DALLAS SAFARI CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $251k · revenue +62%
  • DO
    DEF - Outdoor Tomorrow Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PEACE PARKS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -94%
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
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
2
Arizona Wildlife Federation

Arizona Wildlife Federation's purpose is to promote and encourage the conservation, propagation, development and management of fish, game and other wildlife; to promote and encourage the wise use, conservation and restoration of waters,…

Animals
3
Texas Foundation for Conservation

Fish and wildlife conservation and outreach including public awareness. Fifteen public relations campaign on social media with over 7.5 million impressions. Twenty plus speaking engagements to a variety of conservation organizations…

Animals
4
Global Wildlife Foundation

Funding innovative veterinary research and supporting organizations dedicated to preserving and protecting wildlife for future generations.

Animals
5
Carson Springs Wildlife Foundation
Animals
6
Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation Inc

The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.

Animals
7
Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.

Animals
8
Wildlife Conservation Foundation

1. To preserve land and wildlife for the use and education of future generations.2. To assist in wildlife management programs that protect and preserve land and wildlife.3. To provide education regardign the importance of hunting and its…

Animals
9
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
10
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
11
Farwide Conservation Inc

Farwide Conservation Inc. is dedicated to the conservation of fish and wildlife habitat and the promotion of outdoor recreational opportunities today and forever.

Environment
12
Interlaken Wildlife Foundation
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas; the most unlike its peers is Iowa West 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

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 48 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONSERVATION FORCE INC: $645,053 · AnimalsCONSERVATION FORCE INCTHE IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $160,000 · AnimalsTHE IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INCTHE ORIGINS FOUNDATION INC: $113,934 · AnimalsTHE ORIGINS FOUNDATION INCWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $113,500 · AnimalsWILD SHEEP FOUNDATIONTHE WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $96,000 · AnimalsTHE WILDLIFE SOCIETYEco Defense Group: $48,000 · Animals+11 more: $174,500 · Animals+11 moreDALLAS SAFARI CLUB: $251,280 · OtherDALLAS SAFARI CLUBCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $82,590 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S F…LUWIRE WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherLUWIRE WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY…TANZANIA LION ILLUMINATION PROJECT: $60,000 · OtherTANZANIA LION ILLUMINATION …DEF - Outdoor Tomorrow Foundation: $50,000 · OtherDEF - Outdoor Tomorrow Foun…PHILMONT STAFF ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $28,000 · Other+12 more: $149,470 · Other+12 moreDALLAS ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $317,303 · EnvironmentDALLAS ECOLOGICAL F…PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $106,575 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDLIFE …Bobwhite Brigade: $33,000 · EnvironmentBobwhite BrigadeTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FU…Taking Care of Texas: $22,500 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentNRA FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Crime & LegalNRA FOUND…Texas A&M Foundation: $61,225 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationScholastic Shooting Sports Foundation Inc: $54,590 · Recreation & SportsNational Parks Traveler: $5,594 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE PEACE PARKS INC: $50,000 · International
Animals$1,350,987Other$726,340Environment$519,378Crime & Legal$250,000Education$71,225Recreation & Sports$60,184International$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONSERVATION FORCE INC: $645,053 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetDALLAS ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $317,303 over 3y, 17% of budgetDALLAS SAFARI CLUB: $251,280 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ORIGINS FOUNDATION INC: $113,934 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $113,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $106,575 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $96,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $82,590 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $61,225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetScholastic Shooting Sports Foundation Inc: $54,590 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PEACE PARKS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetEco Defense Group: $48,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetDALLAS SAFARI CLUB NEW MEXICO: $40,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetPHILMONT STAFF ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBobwhite Brigade: $33,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE: $31,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTaking Care of Texas: $22,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPEAK OUT FOR ANIMALS: $12,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetTEXAS BIGHORN SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION I: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIREDZI RIVER AFRICAN WILDLIFE TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetTHE KIDS OUTDOORS ZONE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSAVE VALLEY CONSERVANCY FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetArizona Deer Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPASS IT ON - OUTDOOR MENTORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Parks Traveler: $5,594 over 1y, 2.6% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Bass Pro Shops & Cabe…Safari Club Internati…The Bwana's Club Inc …Houston Safari Club F…Safari Club Internati…Weatherby Foundation …Rocky Mountain Elk Fo…Greater Houston Commu…Cabela Family Foundat…International Order o…San Angelo Chapter of…Cabelas Outdoor Fund
Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor FundMO23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund · Safari Club International Foundation · The Bwana's Club Inc Dba Dsc South Tex · Houston Safari Club Foundation · Safari Club International West Texas Chapter Inc · Weatherby Foundation International Inc · Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Cabela Family Foundation · International Order of T Roosevelt · San Angelo Chapter of Safari Club International · Cabelas Outdoor Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%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
    2get 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Dsc Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dsc Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 48 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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