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Sapphire Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$964k
Granted FY2023
80
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

Health$797kEducation$710kHuman Services$589kArts & Culture$565kCommunity Improvement$325kPhilanthropy$223kEmployment$199kEnvironment$198kOther$0
02FY2023 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k42 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $510k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $302k
$5,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST$52,000
DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$50,000
PEGASUS FOUNDATION DBA DALLAS INSTITUTE OF HUMAN$50,000
DALLAS THEATER CENTER$50,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$50,000
VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS$50,000
DALLAS FOUNDATION A TX NONPROFIT CORPORATION$35,000
TACA INC$30,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS$25,000
NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER$25,000
IMPACT CITY INITIATIVE$25,000
SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH$25,000
DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS$25,000
IMPACT CITY INITIATIVE$25,000
NETWORK GROUP INC$25,000
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 (FY20–23, $746k) 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%DAVIDS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%PHILIP SALEM FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%LEGACY PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 19%LEGACY PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 19%COMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY INC: $6k → 19%SALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF OF DALLAS INC: $10k → 14%LEGACY PARENTING CENTER: $1k → 19%SALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF OF DALLAS INC: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY RENEWAL OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY INC: $1k → 19%LEGACY PARENTING CENTER: $898 → 19%SALESMANSHIP CLUB CHARITABLE GOLF OF DALLAS INC: $5k → 14%IMPACT CITY INITIATIVE: $100k → 14%IMPACT CITY INITIATIVE: $100k → 14%IMPACT CITY INITIATIVE: $30k → 14%IMPACT CITY INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%IMPACT CITY INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%IMPACT CITY INITIATIVE: $18k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $20k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $20k → 14%DALLAS LEGAL HOSPICE: $5k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $3k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $10k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $3k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED OF GENEROUS SUPPORT: $10k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED OF GENEROUS SUPPORT: $10k → 14%ASCEND DALLAS: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $50k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 14%DWELL WITH DIGNITY INC: $2k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $5k → 14%HONDURAS THREADS: $5k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $10k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $10k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $1k → 14%SAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $10k → 14%SAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $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

NY
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 61 repeat orgs$410k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
38

Total granted

$3.7M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+14%

Still filing today

84%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MP
    MY POSSIBILITIES
    3× · 2020–2023 · $182k · revenue +23%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    3× · 2020–2023 · $175k · revenue +113%
  • PS
    PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST
    4× · 2020–2023 · $157k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • NK
    NEW KEY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • PS
    Philip Salem Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • MS
    MERCY STREET
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +22%
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 International University

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

Education
2
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.…

—
3
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
6
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
7
Dallas Citizens Council

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

—
8
Dallas Contemporary

Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…

Arts & Culture
9
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

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.

—
10
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.

—
11
Dcms Foundation

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

Health
12
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Polly Boyd Scholarship Fund. 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

105 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. 105 of the 124 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/105
Grantees still filing
65/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEGASUS FOUNDATION DBA DALLAS INSTITUTE OF HUMAN: $225,000 · OtherPEGASUS FOUNDATION DBA DALLAS INSTIT…MY POSSIBILITIES: $181,500 · OtherMY POSSIBILITIESDALLAS FOUNDATION A TX NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $125,500 · OtherDALLAS FOUNDATION A TX NONPROFIT COR…DALLAS FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM INC: $75,000 · OtherDALLAS FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM INCSAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH: $70,000 · OtherSAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCHTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAIN: $60,000 · OtherThe Network Group Inc: $75,000 · OtherThe Network Group IncJUST COMMUNITY INC: $80,500 · OtherJUST COMMUNITY INC+44 more: $418,102 · Other+44 moreImpact City Initiative: $297,500 · Human ServicesImpact City Initiati…INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $145,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SE…DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $80,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S AD…JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $53,100 · Human ServicesJUBILEE PARK & COMMU…ASCEND DALLAS: $30,000 · Human ServicesSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesPhilip Salem Foundation: $25,000 · Human Services+11 more: $92,394 · Human Services+11 moreJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER: $145,000 · EducationJUNE SHELTON SCHOO…Southern Methodist University: $115,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist…THE WEZMORE PROJECT INC: $105,000 · EducationTHE WEZMORE PROJEC…UNIVERSITY PARK SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $74,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY PARK SC…CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $51,000 · EducationCITY TEACHING ALLI…WILKINSON CENTER: $30,000 · EducationNEW KEY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationJOHN S BRADFIELD SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+12 more: $57,500 · Education+12 moreVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $250,000 · HealthVISITING NU…CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $112,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S …AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · HealthDALLAS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Health+8 more: $34,000 · Health+8 moreDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $175,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS THE…THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $54,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER…TACA INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTACA INCSECOND THOUGHT THEATRE: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSECOND THO…PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSE…Dallas Museum of Art: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Mus…+4 more: $16,000 · Arts & CulturePHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $157,400 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHRO…DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $141,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS SOC…DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS CEN…THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $15,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $25,500 · Philanthropy+3 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $175,000 · EnvironmentDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDERS GARDEN CLUB OF DALLAS: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,500 · Environment
Other$1,310,602Human Services$747,994Education$652,500Health$426,500Arts & Culture$390,000Philanthropy$368,900Environment$197,500

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 budgetImpact City Initiative: $297,500 over 4y, 99% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $250,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $181,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $175,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $157,400 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $145,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER: $145,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $141,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $112,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WEZMORE PROJECT INC: $105,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetJUST COMMUNITY INC: $80,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM INC: $75,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetThe Network Group Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY PARK SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $74,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $54,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $53,100 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $51,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTACA INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSECOND THOUGHT THEATRE: $40,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetPARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASCEND DALLAS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW KEY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN S BRADFIELD SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMERCY STREET: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY PARENTING CENTER INC: $23,694 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMISTAD MISSION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILES OF FREEDOM: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS ACADEMIC CENTER: $17,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NET FW INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTREY ATHLETES: $12,102 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationThe Moody FoundationMeadows Foundation IncW P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…United Way of Metropo…The Addy FoundationThe Aileen and Jack P…Theodore and Beulah B…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX62.4× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley 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 Sapphire Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sapphire Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Sapphire Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sapphire Foundation Inc 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 124 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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