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Fred and Ann Margolin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Fred and Ann Margolin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$228kPhilanthropy$176kReligion$134kHuman Services$24kCrime & Legal$11kEducation$11kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
$4,360
Median grant
5
States reached
$956k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$13,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS$13,000
DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$12,550
THE MUSSAR INSTITUTE$10,000
TITAS DANCE UNBOUND$7,500
TRAC (TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER)$5,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$4,360
IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION$3,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$2,500
TEXANS CARE FOR CHILDREN$1,530
DALLAS AREA TORAH ASSOCIATION (DATA) OF PLANO$1,000
DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL$518
COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC (CHAI)$500
THE DICKEY FOUNDATION$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%TRAC (TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER): $5k → 14%TRAC (TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER): $3k → 14%METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE: $600 → 14%DALLAS KIDS FIRST: $5k → 14%BRYANS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE DICKEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%THE DICKEY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%DALLAS KIDS FIRST: $1k → 14%THE DICKEY FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
CA
UT
MO
VA
NC
DC
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$503k · 24 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
45

Total granted

$503k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+15%

Still filing today

63%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TM
    THE MUSSAR INSTITUTE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +26%
  • TI
    TEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +42%
  • DC
    DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +358%

Funded once

  • GW
    GENESIS WOMAN'S SHELTER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +73%
  • BH
    BRYANS HOUSE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +87%
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
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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2
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
3
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
4
Dallas Architecture Forum

The Forum educates, enriches and connects our community by presenting programs and events, creating experiences, and engaging global and local thought-leaders from the design fields to enhance how we live.

Arts & Culture
5
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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6
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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7
Dallas Regional Chamber

Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.

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8
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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9
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Progress Texas Institute

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

Civil Rights
11
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
12
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Torch 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

42 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. 42 of the 77 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $96,759 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELTexas Women's Foundation: $63,246 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationTITAS DANCE UNBOUND: $45,050 · OtherTITAS DANCE UNBOUNDIndividual grant recipient: $16,030 · OtherTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY: $15,900 · Other+45 more: $71,305 · Other+45 moreDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $173,925 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Ri…+8 more: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $89,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROP…+2 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MUSSAR INSTITUTE: $35,300 · ReligionINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $11,000 · ReligionTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $7,500 · Human ServicesDALLAS KIDS FIRST: $6,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBRYANS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE DICKEY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $600 · Human ServicesDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC: $2,500 · EducationHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF DALLAS: $1,000 · EducationWILKINSON CENTER: $1,000 · EducationGIRLS INC: $4,500 · Youth Development
Other$308,290Arts & Culture$185,925Philanthropy$128,500Religion$46,300Human Services$30,600Education$19,000Youth Development$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $173,925 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $89,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $63,246 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MUSSAR INSTITUTE: $35,300 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY: $15,900 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS KIDS FIRST: $6,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexans Care For Children Inc: $4,030 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Place: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DICKEY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHIAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE CREEK ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTORCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF DALLAS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF DALLAS/FORT WORTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATIVE ROUNDTABLE OF TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARA MIA THEATRE CO: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFER DALLAS BETTER DALLAS: $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Texas Instruments Fou…The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…The Addy FoundationMeadows Foundation IncThe Eugene McDermott …The Hersh FoundationKline Family Foundati…Dallas Tourism Public…Embrey Family Foundat…The Perot FoundationHoblitzelle Foundation
Texas Instruments FoundationTX31.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Addy Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Hersh Foundation · Kline Family Foundation · Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation · Embrey Family Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation

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 Fred and Ann Margolin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred and Ann Margolin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 77 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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