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Embrey Family Foundation

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.

$141k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$771kHealth$625kPhilanthropy$576kCommunity Improvement$184kCivil Rights$131kPublic Benefit$117kHuman Services$102kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
$5,530
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Forest Forward$25,000
Pen America$25,000
TACA$15,000
Outloud Dallas$10,000
Making Gay History$10,000
MS Foundation for Women$7,600
Make Art With Purpose$7,500
Resource Center of Dallas Inc$5,530
Dallas Theatre Center$5,175
NTX Downwinders at Risk$5,000
Planned Parenthood$5,000
South Dallas Parent Coalition$5,000
Artsillery$5,000
Life Jacket Theatre Company$5,000
Sundance Institute$4,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTHZONE: $58k → 8%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $10k → 17%HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE: $1k → 14%CARTER'S HOUSE: $3k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $50k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $2k → 14%IMPACT CITY INITIATIVE: $6k → 14%THE AFIYA CENTER: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
MN
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
DC
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 27 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
103

Total granted

$1.5M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+28%

Still filing today

70%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsReligionHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $103k · revenue +61%
  • TI
    TACA INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +15%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $65k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • S
    SMU
    one grant, 2018 · $580k
  • DC
    DALLAS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2018 · $210k
  • NEO Philanthropy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $105k · revenue +27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
2
Dallas Contemporary

Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…

Arts & Culture
3
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
4
Teatro Hispano De Dallas

Teatro Dallas is committed to the cultural empowerment of the Latino community by representing our varied experiences, voices, and artistic expressions. Through high quality theatrical programming Teatro Dallas employs the power of theater…

Arts & Culture
5
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
6
Theatre Three Inc

We are an intimate stage for everyone. Playwrights will invent, artists will risk, and audiences will be immersed in new and familiar plays they can see from all sides. Feel emboldened, entertained and intrigued rediscover and reach for T3.

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7
The Alliance for Media Arts Culture Inc

To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.

Arts & Culture
8
Ten Thousand Things Theater

Ten Thousand Things awakens the creative spirit of audiences and artists by bringing essential and exceptional theater to people from all backgrounds and life experiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Austin Rainbow Theatre

Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.

Arts & Culture
10
Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council

Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…

Arts & Culture
11
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
12
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Unleashed Productions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%3%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr10%39%35–55yr13%23%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/99
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,705

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 145 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/95
Grantees still filing
60/95
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SMU — $580,000 · OtherSMUPLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMER — $467,361 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERTexas Women's Foundation — $232,000 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationDALLAS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS — $210,000 · OtherDALLAS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTSIndividual grant recipient — $112,100 · OtherDALLAS TRHT FUND — $100,000 · Other+80 more — $882,308 · Other+80 moreDALLAS THEATER CENTER — $191,295 · Arts & CultureDALLAS THEATER CENTERPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $102,596 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER IN…THE DANCE EXCHANGE INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DANCE EXCHANGE INCTACA INC — $65,315 · Arts & CultureTACA INCDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $54,300 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and H…THE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC — $37,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+24 more — $257,173 · Arts & Culture+24 moreCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $151,104 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS — $30,300 · PhilanthropyUNLEASHED PRODUCTIONS INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $3,500 · PhilanthropyYOUTHZONE INC — $58,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CLIFF — $50,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHEART HOUSE — $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE AFIYA CENTER — $6,000 · Human ServicesImpact City Initiative — $5,500 · Human ServicesADVOCATE SAFEHOUSE PROJECT — $5,000 · Human Services+4 more — $7,614 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 · HealthRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $15,530 · HealthCOLORADO WEST INC — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $1,750 · HealthNEO Philanthropy Inc — $105,000 · Public BenefitON BEING PROJECT — $10,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $1,500 · Public BenefitTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC — $98,000 · InternationalTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION — $5,000 · International
Other$2,583,769Arts & Culture$843,179Philanthropy$284,904Human Services$149,614Health$127,280Public Benefit$116,500International$103,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTexas Women's Foundation — $232,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER — $191,295 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $151,104 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $105,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $102,596 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC — $98,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DANCE EXCHANGE INC — $70,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTACA INC — $65,315 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $54,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUST COMMUNITY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC — $37,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $32,801 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS — $30,300 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHigher Heights Leadership Fund — $30,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNOMI NETWORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKITCHEN DOG THEATER — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBIG THOUGHT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOREST FORWARD — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNLEASHED PRODUCTIONS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN SANTA FE BALLET — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARTSTILLERY — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE ART WITH PURPOSE INCORPORATED — $16,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCARA MIA THEATRE CO — $15,600 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $15,530 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARBONDALE ARTS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLAUDATO SI CHALLENGE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD — $12,400 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNDERMAIN THEATRE — $11,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTRINITY COMMUNITY CONNECTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetON BEING PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRELIGIOUS INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMaking Gay History Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…The Addy FoundationThe Eugene McDermott …Texas Instruments Fou…Meadows Foundation IncAspen Community Found…Taca IncDallas Center for the…Hoblitzelle Foundation
The Dallas FoundationTX43.1× affinity23 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 · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Aspen Community Foundation · Taca Inc · Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Embrey Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Music to Life Inc — 5% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 145 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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