· Private foundation
Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Teach for America | $5,000 |
| SMU | $5,000 |
| The Senior Source | $5,000 |
| Elephant Havens Wildlife Foundation | $5,000 |
| Dallas Symphony Orchestra League | $5,000 |
| Turtle Creek Park Conservatory | $2,500 |
| Titas Dance Unbound | $2,500 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Southern Methodist University4× · 2017–2020 · $6.7M · revenue +57%- DFDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +98%
- TSThe Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas4× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- DADALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +13%
- DZDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +293%
- BFBHCS Foundationone grant, 2018 · $250k
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 educate the public in music appreciation and fine arts, including the presentation of musical theater and other shows with educational value.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
To inspire and change lives through musical excellence.
Provide financial support to the dallas opera.
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.…
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…
To provide unbiased, non-partisan news coverage for the city and county of Dallas.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Theater Center and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 60 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Artists for Animals ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
- Who funds DALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc ↗
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: 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
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 Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation 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.
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
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.