· Private foundation
Howard Earl Rachofsky Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of Howard Earl Rachofsky Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Dallas, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER DALLAS | $22,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DMDallas Museum of Art2× · 2017–2021 · $203k · revenue +396%
- DSDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2022 · $179k · revenue +37%
- TNTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER2× · 2019–2020 · $110k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- CBCORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $50k
- DCDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +3%
- SPST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +162%
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.
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.
The Forum educates, enriches and connects our community by presenting programs and events, creating experiences, and engaging global and local thought-leaders from the design fields to enhance how we live.
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 philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
The jcc of dallas brings the community together by providing state of the art facilities and exceptional programs in an inclusive environment defined by jewish values and culture.
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
The dallas tourism public improvement district ("dtpid") is a public improvement district dedicated to improving convention and group hotel bookings and hotel room night consumption in the city of dallas, texas.
The San Antonio Museum of Art brings people together with art by collecting, preserving, and presenting significant works of art representing a broad range of history and cultures, advancing human connection and understanding, and…
Increase community involvement to advance music and art through education events and our TechNotes curriculum, group collaborations, film and instrument competitions, performance jobs, and general public concerts
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…
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.…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Glasstire ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard Earl Rachofsky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard Earl Rachofsky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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