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Kobes Arts at a glance

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Kobes Arts

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$92kEducation$21k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TITASDANCE UNBOUND$2,850
Dallas Museum of Art$1,000
Bruce Wood Dance Project$1,000
KERA$250
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JUNTOS Collective: $9k → 10%Dallas Summer Musicals: $500 → 14%JFK Center DC: $266 → 14%JUNTOS Collective: $1k → 10%Dallas Contemporary: $23k → 14%Dallas Contemporary: $11k → 14%Dallas Contemporary: $6k → 14%Dallas Contemporary: $3k → 14%Dallas Contemporary: $1k → 14%Big Thought: $5k → 14%Big Thought: $5k → 14%Southern Methodist University: $6k → 14%Southern Methodist University: $20 → 14%Booker T Washington High School for: $5k → 14%TITASDANCE UNBOUND: $4k → 14%TITASDANCE UNBOUND: $3k → 14%TITASDANCE UNBOUND: $2k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $1k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $1k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $1k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $1k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $1k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $1k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $1k → 14%Sammons Center for the Arts: $6k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $1k → 14%Bruce Wood Dance Project: $6k → 14%TITASDANCE UNBOUND: $850 → 14%Bruce Wood Dance Project: $5k → 14%Dallas Arts District: $650 → 14%Bruce Wood Dance Project: $1k → 14%ATT Performing Arts Center: $322 → 14%Bruce Wood Dance Project: $1k → 14%Dallas Museum of Art: $250 → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$100k · 7 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$100k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+93%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • BT
    BIG THOUGHT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +33%
  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +396%
  • Southern Methodist University
    2× · 2019–2023 · $6k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • SC
    SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +93%
  • BT
    Booker T Washington High School for
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • DA
    Dallas Arts District
    one grant, 2017 · $650
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
Dallas Theater Center

Dtc will engage, entertain, and inspire our diverse community by creating experiences that stimulate new ways of thinking and living and by producing plays, educational programs, and other initiatives that are of the highest quality and…

Arts & Culture
2
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Inc

We are a vibrant cultural hub that provides, operates and activates exceptional spaces for artists, artistic organizations and our community.

Philanthropy
3
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
4
TexArts Association for Visual & Performing Arts

TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…

Arts & Culture
5
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
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
Theatre Three Inc

We are an intimate stage for everyone. Playwrights will invent, artists will risk, and audiences will be immersed in new and familiar plays they can see from all sides. Feel emboldened, entertained and intrigued rediscover and reach for T3.

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8
Dallas Chamber Symphony

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

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Texas Cultural Trust Council

Public arts funding

Philanthropy
11
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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12
Dallas Symphony Association

To inspire and change lives through musical excellence.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadway Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Juntos Collective Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALLAS CONTEMPORARY: $43,860 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CONTEMPORARYBIG THOUGHT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHTDallas Museum of Art: $8,250 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS+2 more: $750 · Arts & CultureBruce Wood Dance Project: $12,500 · OtherBruce Wood Dance ProjectJUNTOS Collective Inc: $10,000 · OtherJUNTOS Collective IncTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY: $9,250 · OtherTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SO…Booker T Washington High School for: $5,000 · OtherBooker T Washington High School for+3 more: $1,238 · OtherSouthern Methodist University: $6,020 · Education
Arts & Culture$68,860Other$37,988Education$6,020

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDALLAS CONTEMPORARY: $43,860 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNTOS Collective Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY: $9,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $8,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $6,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 …Texas Instruments Fou…Taca IncThe Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Eugene McDermott FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Taca Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kobes Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kobes Arts. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.

    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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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