· Public charity
Taca Inc
TACA invests in the vibrancy and resilience of a diverse Dallas arts community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $847k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARA MIA THEATRE | $48,000 |
| TEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS | $47,500 |
| PEGASUS MEDIA PROJECT | $45,500 |
| UNDERMAIN THEATRE | $42,000 |
| JUNIOR PLAYERS | $25,500 |
| OUTLOUD DALLAS | $25,500 |
| SOUL REP THEATER CO | $25,000 |
| KITCHEN DOG THEATER | $20,500 |
| BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER | $20,500 |
| THEATRE THREE | $20,500 |
| SHAKESPEARE DALLAS | $20,500 |
| UPTOWN PLAYERS | $20,500 |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| THE DALLAS OPERA | $20,000 |
| NASHER SCULPTURE CNTR | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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 +13% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- CMCARA MIA THEATRE CO7× · 2018–2025 · $346k · revenue +116%
- DCDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $309k · revenue +6%
- DSDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2025 · $308k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CHCRY HAVOC THEATER COone grant, 2019 · $21k
- UFUSA FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue 0%
- BABISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $17k
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.
Dallas Chamber Choir is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit performing arts organization. It provides classical and contemporary choral music for the general public in religious, civic, and concert settings. It also provides cultural enrichment and…
DACAMERA inspires individuals and enriches communities through diverse and inventive musical experiences, including an annual subscription series of jazz and chamber music concerts, Young Artist training, in-school music programs, and free…
To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.
TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…
The mission of Fort Worth Opera is to enrich peoples lives with performances and programs that educate entertain inspire and expand the horizons of current and future audiences. Fort Worth Opera is committed to producing opera of the…
The Catastrophic Theatre is an ensemble-based theatre company dedicated to creating a meaningful exchange between artists and audiences through the creation and performance of new works of all sorts.
Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.
To cultivate a diverse, sustainable audience for great chamber music in dallas and the surrounding area.
Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that bring them new life and relevance while maintaining the…
Celebrating excellence in Austin Theatre
The Garden Theatre's mission is to bring quality, artist-driven storytelling and forward-thinking theatrical experiences to audiences as diverse as the City of Houston.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadway Dallas Inc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 87 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 CARA MIA THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD ↗
- Who funds BRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERMAIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds VERDIGRIS ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds TEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CHORUS OF GREATER DALLAS co Dallas Symphony Association INc ↗
- Who funds THEATRE THREE INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS CONTEMPORARY BALLET ↗
- Who funds TURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN DOG THEATER ↗
- Who funds TECO THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS CHAMBER PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CONTEMPORARY ↗
- Who funds SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds PREMIER LONE STAR WIND ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Echo Theatre ↗
- Who funds Avant Chamber Ballet Inc ↗
- Who funds The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas ↗
- Who funds PRISM MOVEMENT THEATER ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS MUSICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust · Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation · The Dallas Foundation · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Rea Charitable Trust · The Addy Foundation · March Family 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 Taca Inc 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.