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Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$395k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 39
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$5.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving14$395k36%
FY202314$225k36%
FY202211$181k36%
FY20216$332k0%
FY20208$1.9M38%
FY20198$3.9M25%
FY201816$3.1M13%
FY201739$1.9Mn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.8MArts & Culture$2.4MAnimals$1.5MEnvironment$500kHuman Services$338kFood & Nutrition$105kYouth Development$78kHealth$46kOther$0

Top grantees

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

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($722k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern Methodist University: $6,730,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDallas Theater Center: $1,320,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $1,230,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $520,900 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetDallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDallas Zoological Society: $250,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas: $115,025 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Players Guild: $78,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetThe Dallas Opera: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetArtists for Animals: $40,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRegis College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPerot Museum of Nature & Science: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Black Dance Theatre Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSenior Citizens of Greater Dallas Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Winds Musical Outreach Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTexas International Theatrical Arts Society: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEquest: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWatertower Theatre Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Summit Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElephant Havens Wildlife Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBehind Every Door Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVogel Alcove: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Ballet Theater Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas County Heritage Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThanksgiving Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSammons Center for the Arts: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 33.

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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.

The Eugene McDermott FoundationTX34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · Taca Inc · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation · Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc

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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About Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation

How much does Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation give?
Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $395,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (57%), Arts & Culture (20%), Animals (13%).
Who are Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southern Methodist University ($6.7M), Dallas Theater Center ($1.3M), Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ($1.2M).
Does Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Eugene McDermott Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation.
Where is Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation based?
Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation 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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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