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Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$395k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dallas Theater Center$250,000
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International$50,000
Shakespeare Dallas$25,000
Dallas Black Dance Theatre$10,000
Junior Players$10,000
Equest$10,000
SPCA$10,000
Dallas Symphony Orchestra League$5,000
The Senior Source$5,000
Teach for America$5,000
Elephant Havens Wildlife Foundation$5,000
SMU$5,000
Turtle Creek Park Conservatory$2,500
Titas Dance Unbound$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Behind Every Door Ministries: $5k → 14%Vogel Alcove: $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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 25 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
30

Total granted

$11M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+47%

Still filing today

68%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $6.7M · revenue +57%
  • DF
    Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +98%
  • TS
    The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas
    4× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • DA
    DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +13%
  • DZ
    DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +238%
  • BF
    BHCS Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
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
Broadway Dallas Inc

To educate the public in music appreciation and fine arts, including the presentation of musical theater and other shows with educational value.

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
Dallas Wind Symphony

The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and…

Arts & Culture
4
Dallas Childrens Theater Inc

The mission of dallas children's theater is to inspire young people to creative and productive lives through the art of theater.to give rise to inspiring theater, dallas children's theater:- creates and produces innovative professional…

Arts & Culture
5
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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6
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
7
Dallas Symphony Association

To inspire and change lives through musical excellence.

Arts & Culture
8
The Dallas Opera Foundation

Provide financial support to the dallas opera.

Philanthropy
9
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.…

—
10
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
11
Dallas Express Media

To provide unbiased, non-partisan news coverage for the city and county of Dallas.

Arts & Culture
12
Glasstire

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

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Theater Center; the most unlike its peers is Artists for Animals. 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

35 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. 35 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southern Methodist University: $6,730,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University+1 more: $25,000 · EducationDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $1,230,000 · OtherDian Fossey Gorilla F…BHCS Foundation: $250,000 · OtherBHCS FoundationThe Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas: $115,025 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $105,000 · OtherOrchestra of New Spain: $105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · Other+30 more: $359,500 · Other+30 moreDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $1,320,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS THEATER CENT…Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $520,900 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust an…JUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD: $78,000 · Arts & CultureThe Dallas Opera: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $108,500 · Arts & CultureDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $500,000 · EnvironmentDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 · AnimalsArtists for Animals: $40,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · AnimalsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE: $3,000 · Human ServicesMARCH OF DIMES INC: $15,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,000 · Health
Education$6,755,000Other$2,239,525Arts & Culture$2,102,400Environment$500,000Animals$295,000Human Services$48,000Health$31,000

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

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
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.

The Eugene McDermott …Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Dallas FoundationBen E Keith Foundatio…Taca IncTheodore and Beulah B…Fichtenbaum Charitabl…Hoblitzelle FoundationHillcrest FoundationDallas Tourism Public…Dallas Center for the…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 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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