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Nec Foundation of Americas

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.

$482k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.4MRecreation & Sports$916kPublic Safety & Disaster$271kHousing & Shelter$217kHealth$209kYouth Development$166kPhilanthropy$125kCrime & Legal$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $149k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FC DALLAS FOUNDATION$150,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
YOUNG WOMENS PREPARTORY NETTWORK$50,000
CATCH UP AND READ$40,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$33,830
DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
SUSAN G KOMEN CANCER FOUND$22,000
SUSAN G KOMEN CANCER FOUND$18,000
SUSAN G KOMEN CANCER FOUNG$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$9,180
STAGE 62$1,000
DOWN SYNDROME GUILD OF DALLS$1,000
PLACER ADVANCED ROBOTICS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
SANKRA EYE FOUNDATION USA$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TULGEY WOOD: $1k → 8%CARITAS OF WACO: $1k → 16%IRVING CARES: $30k → 14%IRVING CARES: $15k → 14%IRVING CARES: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
KS
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 12 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
23

Total granted

$3.2M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+0%

Still filing today

67%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • FD
    FC DALLAS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $900k · revenue +13% · 73% of their budget
  • CU
    CATCH UP & READ INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $405k · revenue +533%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK
    2× · 2020–2025 · $273k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • FF
    FEARLESS FOUNDATION GET READY PROGR
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
  • CO
    CITY OF IRVING FAMILY ADVOCACY CTR
    one grant, 2017 · $112k
  • UO
    UNIV OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
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
COMMIT2DALLAS

Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher…

Education
2
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
3
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
4
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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5
Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc

Dallas area habitat for humanity, inc. is a nondenominational christian not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to sponsor specific projects in habitat development for the dallas, texas area. modest but adequate housing, new or…

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6
Downtown Dallas Inc

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.…

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7
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
8
Housing Forward

Housing forward leads in the development and implementation of an effective homeless response system to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in dallas and collin counties.

Human Services
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
11
Dallas Innovation Alliance

The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a 501(c)(3) public-private consortium of public, private, civic and academia to support smart city initiatives in Dallas. Our definition of a Smart City is one at the intersection of community, data…

Community Improvement
12
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc

Uwmd is a community-based social change organization that unites the community to create lasting change. for 100 years, we've brought together passionate change-makers, alongside corporate, civic and nonprofit partners, to strengthen…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Earth Day Texas 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

35 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. 35 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
18/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FC DALLAS FOUNDATION: $900,000 · OtherFC DALLAS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $650,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATL CTR FOR MISSING EXPLOITED CH: $200,000 · OtherNATL CTR FOR MISSING EXPLOITED CHCATCH UP READ: $195,000 · OtherCATCH UP READFEARLESS FOUNDATION GET READY PROGR: $125,000 · OtherCITY OF IRVING FAMILY ADVOCACY CTR: $112,000 · Other+38 more: $1,013,990 · Other+38 moreCATCH UP & READ INC: $404,750 · EducationCATCH UP & READ INCYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $273,000 · EducationYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPAR…DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $112,000 · EducationDALLAS EDUCATION FOU…DESIGN CONNECT CREATE: $40,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $185,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterAmerican Heart Association Inc: $104,567 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyAIO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsEARTH DAY TEXAS INC: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsIrving Cares Inc: $55,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$3,195,990Education$830,750Housing & Shelter$215,000Health$156,567Philanthropy$125,000Recreation & Sports$66,000Human Services$58,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFC DALLAS FOUNDATION: $900,000 over 5y, 73% of budgetCATCH UP & READ INC: $404,750 over 6y, 11% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $273,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $185,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $112,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $104,567 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIrving Cares Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAIO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESIGN CONNECT CREATE: $40,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetNORTHERN NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetArlington Food Assistance Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRancho Cordova Food Locker: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEARTH DAY TEXAS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FONTA FLORA STATE TRAIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLil Warriors: $1,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds FC DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATCH UP & READ INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION FINALLY HOME ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Irving Cares Inc ↗
  • Who funds AIO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds DESIGN CONNECT CREATE ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
  • Who funds Arlington Food Assistance Center ↗
  • Who funds Rancho Cordova Food Locker ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII EXECUTIVE COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds EARTH DAY TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗

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 Dallas FoundationTX20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Dallas Stars Foundation Inc

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 Nec Foundation of Americas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nec Foundation of Americas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Nec Foundation of Americas?

Find your warmest path to Nec Foundation of Americas through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 64 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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