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Quality of Life Foundation for Metropolitan Dallas

To promote education and the community life of metropolitan dallas in cultural and social aspects.

$486k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$429k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$2.2MEducation$322kHousing & Shelter$177kHealth$68kArts & Culture$50kHuman Services$46kCrime & Legal$30k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $429k
$429,166
Median grant
1
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dallas Regional Chamber$429,166
Communities Foundation of Texas$50,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–22, $148k) 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%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $81k → 14%Vogel Alcove: $20k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $46k → 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 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.

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Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
2
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
3
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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4
Dallas International University

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

Education
5
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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6
Trivium Life Services

Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services

Employment
7
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
8
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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9
Bridge Steps

To empower adults experiencing homelessness in dallas with the tools to homeless recovery as they move into sustainable housing.

Food & Nutrition
10
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
11
Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council

Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…

Arts & Culture
12
Austin-Travis County Sobriety Center Local Government Corporation

The sobering center enhances public health and safety by providing a safe place for publicly intoxicated individuals to sober up as an alternative to the emergency room or jail and, where appropriate, to provide a bridge to recovery.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Citysquare. 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

11 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dallas Regional Chamber: $2,369,241 · OtherDallas Regional ChamberAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $145,000 · OtherAUSTIN STREET CENTERJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $81,343 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE: $46,379 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE: $20,000 · Human ServicesNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $68,000 · HealthCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMILES OF FREEDOM: $30,338 · Crime & LegalBONTON ENTERPRISES: $12,371 · EducationUPLIFT EDUCATION: $10,000 · EducationPROMISE HOUSE INC: $12,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,514,241Human Services$147,722Health$68,000Philanthropy$50,000Crime & Legal$30,338Education$22,371Housing & Shelter$12,000

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 Regional Chamber: $2,369,241 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $145,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $81,343 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $68,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $46,379 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILES OF FREEDOM: $30,338 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBONTON ENTERPRISES: $12,371 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $10,000 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.

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 Addy FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…The Dallas FoundationCelanese FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Addy FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Addy Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Quality of Life Foundation for Metropolitan Dallas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quality of Life Foundation for Metropolitan Dallas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    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.

    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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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