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Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc

To promote educational and recreational opportunities for youths.

$649k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Itemized grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$547k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$842k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’23
PhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$547k68%
FY202310$180k100%
FY20214$48k75%
FY20202$13k100%
FY20192$134k100%
FY20171$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$205kEnvironment$168kFood & Nutrition$157kRecreation & Sports$134kHealth$93kHuman Services$75kHousing & Shelter$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
CA
CO
AZ
DC
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Houston Parks Board$124,00010%
Houston Independent School District Foundation$100,60521%
United States Soccer Foundation Inc$100,00011%
Families Helping Families in Houston$65,654221%
Science of Sport$51,12014%
Blue Angels Foundation Inc$50,00012%
Utmd Anderson$50,0001n/a
Rebuilding Together Houston$50,00021%
One Tree Planted Inc$36,03520%
Kids' Meals Inc$25,01520%
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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHouston Parks Board: $124,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Independent School District Foundation: $100,605 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUnited States Soccer Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFamilies Helping Families in Houston: $65,654 over 2y, 21% of budgetScience of Sport: $51,120 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBlue Angels Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRebuilding Together Houston: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOne Tree Planted Inc: $36,035 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKids' Meals Inc: $25,015 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $25,015 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBakerRipley: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSurviveHER: $13,150 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetTrees For Houston: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetA Mind to Work Community Development Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGood Sports Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Legion: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Love Cancer Care Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAccess U Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNational Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLearn Fresh Education Co: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of the United States of America: $8,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe St Bernard Project Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngel by Nature: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX18.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Halliburton Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

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How do I get to Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dynamo and Dash Charities 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.

About Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc

How much does Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc give?
Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc reported 25 itemized grants totaling $546,729, out of $648,932 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (22%), Environment (18%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
Who are Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Houston Parks Board ($124k), Houston Independent School District Foundation ($101k), United States Soccer Foundation Inc ($100k).
Does Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc based?
Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc is based in TX.

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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