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March Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $510k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $505,000 |
| KERAKXT | $350,000 |
| CAFE MOMENTUM | $255,000 |
| TACA | $250,000 |
| NEXUS | $210,000 |
| DALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATER | $200,000 |
| TRUSTED WORLD | $100,000 |
| SHUMLA | $45,000 |
| UNDERMAIN THEATRE | $27,500 |
| JUNIOR PLAYERS | $25,000 |
| GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| KITCHEN DOG THEATER | $7,500 |
| SOUL REP THEATRE CO | $7,500 |
| SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE | $7,500 |
| UNDERMAIN THEATRE | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $424k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
50 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- DCDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +7%
- KDKITCHEN DOG THEATER8× · 2017–2025 · $572k · revenue +28% · 81% of their budget
- NRNexus Recovery Center Incorporated7× · 2019–2025 · $492k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- DCDALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATER - CABARETone grant, 2020 · $75k
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.
Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
The mission of Uptown Players is to present professional theatre that meets a rising demand in the LGBTQ+ community for audiences to see their life experiences Represented on stage. Our diverse productions represent the LGBTQ+ community…
We are a vibrant cultural hub that provides, operates and activates exceptional spaces for artists, artistic organizations and our community.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Portland center stage's mission is to create transcendent theatrical experiences and community programs that break down the barriers separating people. we support our community in celebrating the full scope of humanity, appreciating…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is The Cedars Union. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 97 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 DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN DOG THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds TACA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNDERMAIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HIGH-TECH HIGH HEELS ↗
- Who funds SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE ↗
- Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CRY HAVOC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN FARM SANCTUARY AKA FULLER-WIGGS FARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
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: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Taca Inc · Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Hersh Foundation · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · The Rosewood Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust
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 March Family 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.
- Kickstand Comedy — 5% of income from government
- Community Cycling Center — 2% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% 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.
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