· Public charity
Frisco Association for the Arts
To advance the arts through advocacy, outreach and education, building a stronger community with the arts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $233,920 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $281,560 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $47,640 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MELODY OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| THEATRE FRISCO | $25,000 |
| THE FRISCO CHORALE | $22,800 |
| VISUAL ARTS GUILD OF FRISCO | $18,000 |
| PLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| LITTLE HEARTS OF HOPE | $11,000 |
| THE GALLERY 8680 | $10,000 |
| CHABAD OF FRISCO | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS CHORUS OF COLLIN CO | $10,000 |
| FRISCO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHEST | $10,000 |
| LUMEDIA MUSICWORKS | $10,000 |
| CENTER STAGE THEATRE WORKS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CIRCUS FEST | $10,000 |
| GREATER DALLAS YOUTH ORCHESTR | $10,000 |
| GARAGE ARTS PROJECT 2024 | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 13% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 8 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FCFRISCO COMMUNITY THEATRE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $107k · revenue +88%
- MOMELODY OF HOPE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $69k · revenue +136%
- VAVisual Arts Guild of Frisco6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +89% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- OCODYSSEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +39%
- FAFRISCO AREA CHILDRENS THEATRone grant, 2019 · $8k
- TCTEXAS CELLOSone grant, 2023 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To enhance the artistic environment of Johnson and Hood County, Texas and the surrounding area and provide opportunities for musicians in the area to perform.
A symphony orchestra for community
Through innovative, exciting, and engaging concerts, FBSO strives to bring a diverse array of music to all ages in Fort Bend and beyond.
To establish Ballet North Texas as an indispensable asset of the North Texas community through; exceptional performances of new, classical and historical masterpieces, excellence in dance training, distinguished community education and…
Professional Music Concerts
American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…
Classical Music awareness in Greater Flower Mound area 25%
The Youth Symphony of Denton provides an exceptional musical education experience for students in and around Denton county. We offer different orchestras to meet the needs of students at various levels of ability.
Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.
Dance Education and Performance
Dallas Chamber Choir is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit performing arts organization. It provides classical and contemporary choral music for the general public in religious, civic, and concert settings. It also provides cultural enrichment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Odysseus Chamber Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Movie Institute. 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 15 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FRISCO COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MELODY OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Visual Arts Guild of Frisco ↗
- Who funds PLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRISCO ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds North Texas Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds ASTRAIOS INC ↗
- Who funds MOVIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CHORUS OF COLLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LUMEDIA MUSICWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GARAGE ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HEARTS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATORY YOUTH THEATRE OF COLLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CELLOS ↗
- Who funds Frisco Old Town Community ↗
- Who funds Frisco Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLIN COUNTY BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRISCO BALLET ↗
- Who funds CHAMBERLAIN BALLET ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Taca Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Frisco Association for the Arts 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.
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.
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