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Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation

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.

$367k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
63%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving15$367k40%
FY20248$112k63%
FY202310$87k50%
FY20225$85k20%
FY20218$60k50%
FY20207$101kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$128kArts & Culture$124kHuman Services$113kEducation$71kRecreation & Sports$5kFood & Nutrition$2kEnvironment$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dallas Museum of Art$171,45060%
The Crystal Charity Ball$145,00060%
The Lamplighter School$58,25060%
Children's Medical Center Foundation$55,92520%
American Cancer Society Inc$40,00020%
Turtle Creek Conservancy$28,50020%
Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church$25,0001n/a
Friends of the Katy Trail Inc$25,0001n/a
Dallas Contemporary$16,25020%
Magnolia Public Schools Foundation Inc$10,0002n/a
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All grantees of Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dallas Museum of Art$171,45060%
The Crystal Charity Ball$145,00060%
The Lamplighter School$58,25060%
Children's Medical Center Foundation$55,92520%
American Cancer Society Inc$40,00020%
Turtle Creek Conservancy$28,50020%
Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church$25,0001n/a
Friends of the Katy Trail Inc$25,0001n/a
Dallas Contemporary$16,25020%
Magnolia Public Schools Foundation Inc$10,0002n/a
Baylor Health Care System Foundation$10,00010%
Southern Arkansas University Foundation Inc$7,80010%
Sweetheart Ball Inc$7,0001n/a
The Foundation for AIDS Research$7,00010%
Hockaday School$6,12530%
Child Protective Services Community Partners Inc$5,75020%
Highland Park Mis-Hpms PTO$5,00010%
The Compass School of Texas$5,00010%
Dirk Nowitzki Foundation$5,00010%
Southwestern Medical Foundation$5,00010%
Educational First Steps$3,00010%
The Nasher Sculpture Center$3,00010%
TEXAS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC dba THE DA VINCI SCHOOL$2,70020%
Dallas Art Fair Foundation$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDallas Museum of Art: $171,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Crystal Charity Ball: $145,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Lamplighter School: $58,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Medical Center Foundation: $55,925 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTurtle Creek Conservancy: $28,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Contemporary: $16,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Arkansas University Foundation Inc: $7,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Foundation for AIDS Research: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHockaday School: $6,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChild Protective Services Community Partners Inc: $5,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHighland Park Mis-Hpms PTO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Compass School of Texas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDirk Nowitzki Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthwestern Medical Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducational First Steps: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Nasher Sculpture Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC dba THE DA VINCI SCHOOL: $2,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Art Fair Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 20.

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.

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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 Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation

How much does Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation give?
Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $367,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Arts & Culture (28%), Human Services (25%).
Who are Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dallas Museum of Art ($171k), The Crystal Charity Ball ($145k), The Lamplighter School ($58k).
Does Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation.
Where is Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation based?
Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable 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 28 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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