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Frisco Association for the Arts

To advance the arts through advocacy, outreach and education, building a stronger community with the arts.

$282k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$700kYouth Development$25kHealth$11kReligion$10kCommunity Improvement$8kEducation$7k
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $233,920, the rows itemized in this filing. The $281,560 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $47,640 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 $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $197k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THEATRE FRISCO$25,000
MELODY OF HOPE$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
CHABAD OF FRISCO$10,000
GREATER DALLAS YOUTH ORCHESTR$10,000
THE GALLERY 8680$10,000
FRISCO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHEST$10,000
CENTER STAGE THEATRE WORKS$10,000
LUMEDIA MUSICWORKS$10,000
AMERICAN CIRCUS FEST$10,000
CHILDRENS CHORUS OF COLLIN CO$10,000
GARAGE ARTS PROJECT 2024$9,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 13% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILDRENS CHORUS OF COLLIN CO: $10k → 5%LUMEDIA MUSICWORKS: $10k → 8%MELODY OF HOPE: $25k → 14%GARAGE ARTS PROJECT 2024: $9k → 5%LUMEDIA MUSICWORKS: $8k → 8%MELODY OF HOPE: $20k → 14%GARAGE ARTS PROJECT 2024: $8k → 5%LITTLE HEARTS OF HOPE: $11k → 8%CHILDRENS CHORUS OF COLLIN CO: $8k → 5%CENTER STAGE THEATRE WORKS: $10k → 8%FRISCO ASSOCIATION FOR THE AR: $37k → 5%THEATRE FRISCO: $25k → 5%AMERICAN CIRCUS FEST: $10k → 14%VISUAL ARTS GUILD OF FRISCO: $20k → 5%TEXAS CELLOS: $8k → 14%FRISCO COMMUNITY THEATRE DBA: $20k → 5%GREATER DALLAS YOUTH ORCHESTR: $10k → 14%FRISCO COMMUNTIY THEATRE DBA: $20k → 5%VISUAL ARTS GUILD OF FRISCO: $18k → 5%FRISCO COMMUNITY THEATRE DBA: $14k → 5%FRISCO COMMUNITY THEATRE DBA: $14k → 5%FRISCO COMMUNITY THEATRE DBA: $14k → 5%THE GALLERY 8680: $13k → 5%FRISCO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHEST: $10k → 5%THE GALLERY 8680: $10k → 5%ASTRAIOS CHAMBER MUSIC: $10k → 5%THE GALLERY 8680: $10k → 5%FRISCO ASSOCIATION FOR THE AR: $10k → 5%FRISCO ASSOCIATION FOR THE AR: $9k → 5%ASTRAIOS CHAMBER MUSIC: $9k → 5%FRISCO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHEST: $9k → 5%FRISCO AREA CHILDRENS THEATR: $8k → 5%VISUAL ARTS GUILD OF FRISCO: $8k → 5%PLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 5%PLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 5%PLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 5%PLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $8k → 5%NORTH TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS -: $13k → 5%THE MOVIE INSTITUTE: $10k → 5%NORTH TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS -: $9k → 5%NORTH TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS -: $9k → 5%THE MOVIE INSTITUTE: $9k → 5%NORTH TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS -: $8k → 5%THE FRISCO CHORALE: $23k → 5%THE FRISCO CHORALE: $13k → 5%CHABAD OF FRISCO: $10k → 5%THE FRISCO CHORALE: $9k → 5%ODYSSEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA G: $8k → 5%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$652k · 14 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$652k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+7%

Still filing today

79%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FC
    FRISCO COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $107k · revenue +88%
  • MO
    MELODY OF HOPE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $69k · revenue +136%
  • VA
    Visual Arts Guild of Frisco
    6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +89% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • FA
    FRISCO AREA CHILDRENS THEATR
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • TC
    TEXAS CELLOS
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • OC
    ODYSSEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +39%
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
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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2
Brazos Chamber Orchestra

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.

Arts & Culture
3
North East Texas Symphony Assc

A symphony orchestra for community

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4
Fort Bend Symphony Orchestra

Through innovative, exciting, and engaging concerts, FBSO strives to bring a diverse array of music to all ages in Fort Bend and beyond.

Arts & Culture
5
Ballet North Texas

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…

Arts & Culture
6
McKinney Community Concerts Association Inc

Professional Music Concerts

Arts & Culture
7
American Baroque Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Flower Mound Community Orchestra

Classical Music awareness in Greater Flower Mound area 25%

Arts & Culture
9
Youth Symphony of Denton

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Constella Arts

Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.

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11
Francisco Martinez Dancetheatre

Dance Education and Performance

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12
Dallas Chamber Choir

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Odysseus Chamber Orchestra; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MELODY OF HOPE INC: $69,363 · Arts & CultureMELODY OF HOPE INCVisual Arts Guild of Frisco: $62,700 · Arts & CultureVisual Arts Guild of FriscoPLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $61,750 · Arts & CulturePLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONFRISCO ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS: $55,287 · Arts & CultureFRISCO ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTSNorth Texas Performing Arts: $45,575 · Arts & CultureNorth Texas Performing ArtsASTRAIOS INC: $37,675 · Arts & CultureASTRAIOS INCFRISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $19,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS CHORUS OF COLLIN COUNTY: $18,000 · Arts & CultureLUMEDIA MUSICWORKS INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureGARAGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $17,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $33,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreFRISCO COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $106,500 · OtherFRISCO COMMUNITY THEATRE INCFRISCO CHORALE: $63,175 · OtherFRISCO CHORALETHEGALLERY8680: $52,750 · OtherTHEGALLERY8680CHABAD OF PLANO-COLLIN COUNTY INC: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIRCUSFEST INC: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $21,500 · Other+3 moreMOVIE INSTITUTE: $25,250 · Youth DevelopmentTEXAS CELLOS: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentLITTLE HEARTS OF HOPE: $11,000 · HealthFrisco Old Town Community: $7,500 · Community ImprovementFrisco Education Foundation: $7,120 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$437,850Other$263,925Youth Development$33,250Health$11,000Community Improvement$7,500Philanthropy$7,120

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRISCO COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $106,500 over 6y, 17% of budgetMELODY OF HOPE INC: $69,363 over 6y, 14% of budgetVisual Arts Guild of Frisco: $62,700 over 6y, 33% of budgetPLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $61,750 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetFRISCO ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS: $55,287 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetNorth Texas Performing Arts: $45,575 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetASTRAIOS INC: $37,675 over 5y, 62% of budgetMOVIE INSTITUTE: $25,250 over 3y, 11% of budgetCHILDRENS CHORUS OF COLLIN COUNTY: $18,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLUMEDIA MUSICWORKS INC: $18,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGARAGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $17,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetLITTLE HEARTS OF HOPE: $11,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCONSERVATORY YOUTH THEATRE OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetODYSSEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $8,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFrisco Education Foundation: $7,120 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRISCO BALLET: $6,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHAMBERLAIN BALLET: $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…Taca IncThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX21.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Frisco Association for the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frisco Association for the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Frisco Association for the Arts?

    Find your warmest path to Frisco Association for the Arts 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 27 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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