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Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$128kArts & Culture$124kHuman Services$113kEducation$71kRecreation & Sports$5kFood & Nutrition$2kEnvironment$1k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND$100,000
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART$60,000
THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL$40,000
TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY$27,500
FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL$25,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$25,000
PULASKI HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL$12,000
DALLAS CONTEMPORARY$7,500
CATTLE BARON'S BALL$5,000
HIGHLAND PARK MIS HPMS PTO$5,000
MAGNOLIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$5,000
COMPASS SCHOOL$5,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS$5,000
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 (FY21–25, $6k) 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.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $750 → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$675k · 12 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$675k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+38%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    6× · 2020–2025 · $171k · revenue +282%
  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +32%
  • TL
    THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BH
    Baylor Health Care System Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +82%
  • SA
    SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +75%
  • SB
    SWEETHEART BALL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
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 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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2
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
3
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
4
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Dallas Physician Medical Services for Children Inc

Provide dental, general pediatric, and pediatric sub-specialty services, including, but not limited to emergency department coverage, inpatient coverage, orthopedic surgery, and craniofacial orthodontics regardless of payor source or…

Health
6
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
7
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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8
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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9
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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10
Physicians for Children

To deliver primary care to children in critically under served areas of the North Central Texas community in a private physician office setting.

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11
Texas Children's

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
12
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art; the most unlike its peers is Dirk Nowitzki Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 28 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $135,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S CANCER FUNDPULASKI HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherPULASKI HEIGHTS UNITED METHO…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAGNOLIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherSWEETHEART BALL INC: $7,000 · Other+2 more: $7,300 · OtherDallas Museum of Art: $171,450 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtDALLAS CONTEMPORARY: $16,250 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CONTEMPORARY+2 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $145,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY …DIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $55,925 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDI…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $40,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER…Baylor Health Care System Foundation: $10,000 · HealthBaylor Health C…THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $7,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION …THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL: $58,250 · EducationTHE LAMPLIGH…SOUTHERN ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,800 · EducationSOUTHERN ARK…HOCKADAY SCHOOL: $6,125 · EducationHOCKADAY SCH…HIGHLAND PARK MIS-HPMS PTO: $5,000 · EducationHIGHLAND PAR…THE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $5,000 · EducationTHE COMPASS …SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN…+2 more: $5,700 · Education+2 moreTURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $28,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $5,750 · Human Services
Other$204,300Arts & Culture$191,700Philanthropy$150,000Health$112,925Education$92,875Environment$53,500Human Services$5,750

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 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
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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Hoak FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Hoak Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mandy and Bill Dillard Charitable 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 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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