· Public charity
State Fair of Texas
The STATE FAIR OF TEXAS celebrates all things texan by promoting agriculture, education, and community involvement through quality entertainment in a family-friendly environment.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $1,829,162 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,324,616 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,495,454 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $417k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $611k
- $250k+1 grant · $743k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WITH GRANTSSCHOLARSHIPS | $743,162 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE STATION | $210,250 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $134,500 |
| DALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | $56,500 |
| CITY OF DALLAS-PARKSRECR | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $47,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON SCHOLARSHIP | $45,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $33,750 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM | $27,500 |
| TEXAS DISCOVERY GARDENS | $25,000 |
| BLINN JUNIOR COLLEGE FINANCIAL AID | $24,750 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE | $22,500 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $536k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- DHDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +906%
- AAAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +53%
- TDTEXAS DISCOVERY GARDENS8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- OOOTHER ORGANIZATIONS WITH GRANTSSCHOLARSHIPS BELOWone grant, 2022 · $324k
- DZDALLAS ZOO MANAGEMENT INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +15%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +35%
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.
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…
Green Careers Texass mission is to disrupt poverty through green career training and employment, in combination with community education.By providing solar PV installation and safety training in the part of Dallas suffering the highest…
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.…
To improve the Dallas public education system by raising and deploying capital to institutions in the most disadvantaged areas of the city.
To uplift the dallas-fort worth community by issuing grants to local businesses, entrepreneurs, and impactful projects. we aim to catalyze positive change, foster development and build a thriving, interconnected city.
Improving public and park land communities using educational and vocational training for underserved youth.
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
Our mission at Youth With Faces is to give justice-impacted youth the skills needed to break the cycle of incarceration and create positive futures. With respect and belief in their potential we give young people the opportunity to learn…
Dallas Bright Futures, a dedicated non-profit organization, operates as the foundational support for The Monty J and Sarah Z Bennett Dallas ISD Scholarship. Our mission is to empower and uplift underserved high school students within the…
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…
Our mission is to promote education, leadership, disciple, health and wellness through sports.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Philips School and Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Swan Strings. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 126 of the 181 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DISCOVERY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds T R HOOVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DALLAS FAIR PARK INNERCITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Spida Inc Braswell Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Fair Park Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ZAN WESLEY HOLMES JR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Southern Dallas Link Inc ↗
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: United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · The Addy Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Byrne Family Foundation Trust · Dallas Mavericks Foundation
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 State Fair of Texas 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.
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.