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Taca Inc

TACA invests in the vibrancy and resilience of a diverse Dallas arts community.

$943k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$6.5MYouth Development$8k
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $847k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UPTOWN PLAYERS$20,500
THEATRE THREE$20,500
SHAKESPEARE DALLAS$20,500
BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER$20,500
KITCHEN DOG THEATER$20,500
NASHER SCULPTURE CNTR$20,000
THE DALLAS OPERA$20,000
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VERDIGRIS ENSEMBLE: $69k → 13%JUNIOR PLAYERS: $30k → 14%JUNIOR PLAYERS: $48k → 14%UNDERMAIN THEATRE: $42k → 14%CRY HAVOC THEATER CO: $30k → 14%TEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS: $48k → 14%TEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS: $29k → 14%UNDERMAIN THEATRE: $28k → 14%BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER: $37k → 14%BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER: $30k → 14%BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER: $27k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATRE: $100k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATRE: $50k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATRE: $50k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATRE: $46k → 14%CARA MIA THEATRE: $80k → 14%CARA MIA THEATRE: $61k → 14%CARA MIA THEATRE: $48k → 14%CARA MIA THEATRE: $47k → 14%CARA MIA THEATRE: $47k → 14%PEGASUS MEDIA PROJECT: $46k → 14%DARK CIRCLES CONTEMPORARY: $40k → 14%BRUCE WOOD DANCE: $40k → 14%BRUCE WOOD DANCE: $34k → 14%CARA MIA THEATRE COM: $31k → 14%TURTLE CREEK CHORALE: $31k → 14%CARA MIA THEATRE: $28k → 14%THE DALLAS OPERA: $92k → 14%NASHER SCULPTURE CNTR: $80k → 14%DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $76k → 14%DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $75k → 14%DALLAS THEATER CENTER: $70k → 14%DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $70k → 14%THE DALLAS OPERA: $67k → 14%DALLAS THEATER CENTER: $61k → 14%NASHER SCULPTURE CNTR: $53k → 14%CHILDRENS CHORUS OF DALLAS: $49k → 14%CHILDRENS CHORUS OF DALLAS: $41k → 14%TITASDANCE UNBOUND: $37k → 14%DALLAS THEATER CENTER: $36k → 14%THE DALLAS OPERA: $36k → 14%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $35k → 14%NASHER SCULPTURE CNTR: $32k → 14%TITAS PRESENTS: $30k → 14%CHILDRENS CHORUS OF DALLAS: $28k → 14%AT&T PERFORMING ARTS: $27k → 14%NASHER SCULPTURE CNTR: $27k → 14%TEXAS BALLET THEATER CO: $37k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 65 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
15

Total granted

$6.2M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+9%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • CM
    CARA MIA THEATRE CO
    7× · 2018–2025 · $346k · revenue +116%
  • DC
    DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $309k · revenue +6%
  • DS
    DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $308k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CH
    CRY HAVOC THEATER CO
    one grant, 2019 · $21k
  • UF
    USA FILM FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue 0%
  • BA
    BISHOP ARTS THEATRE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
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
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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2
Dallas Chamber Choir

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…

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3
Da Camera Society of Texas

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…

Arts & Culture
4
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra

To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.

Arts & Culture
5
TexArts Association for Visual & Performing Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Fort Worth Opera Association Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Catastrophic Theatre Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Dallas Chamber Music Society Inc

To cultivate a diverse, sustainable audience for great chamber music in dallas and the surrounding area.

Arts & Culture
9
Classical Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Austin Rainbow Theatre

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Pearland Theatre Guild

The Pearland Theatre Guild was founded in order to give the community a fun and creative outlet in the performing arts. The Pearl Theater was established as a home for creatives to take part in high-quality theatrical experiences. From the…

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12
B Iden Payne Awards Council

Celebrating excellence in Austin Theatre

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadway Dallas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
45/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARA MIA THEATRE CO: $346,450 · Arts & CultureCARA MIA THEATRE CODALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $308,500 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INCDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $308,050 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONThe Dallas Opera: $280,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $247,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $235,500 · Arts & CultureDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $235,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD: $180,700 · Arts & Culture+52 more: $3,210,050 · Arts & Culture+52 moreTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY: $165,500 · OtherTEXAS INTERNATIO…CHILDRENS CHORUS OF GREATER DALLAS co Dallas Symphony Association INc: $124,000 · OtherCHILDRENS CHORUS…THEATRE THREE INC: $122,500 · OtherTHEATRE THREE IN…TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC: $108,000 · OtherTEXAS WINDS MUSI…The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas: $58,500 · OtherThe Shakespeare …DARK CIRCLES CONTEMPORARY DANCE: $52,000 · OtherDARK CIRCLES CON…CRY HAVOC THEATER COMPANY: $50,000 · OtherORPHEUS CHAMBER SINGERS INC: $37,500 · Other+16 more: $226,250 · Other+16 moreDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyOutLoud Dallas: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentPHILANTHROPY KIDS: $7,500 · Education
Arts & Culture$5,351,250Other$944,250Philanthropy$125,000Youth Development$32,500Education$7,500

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 budgetCARA MIA THEATRE CO: $346,450 over 7y, 16% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $308,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $308,050 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Dallas Opera: $280,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $247,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $235,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $235,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetJUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD: $180,700 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetBRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC: $175,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetUNDERMAIN THEATRE: $166,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY: $165,500 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetSOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY: $142,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $141,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVERDIGRIS ENSEMBLE INC: $140,500 over 5y, 43% of budgetTEATRO HISPANO DE DALLAS: $131,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS CHORUS OF GREATER DALLAS co Dallas Symphony Association INc: $124,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetTHEATRE THREE INC: $122,500 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc: $120,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetPEGASUS CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $118,500 over 3y, 29% of budgetTURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC: $117,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetKITCHEN DOG THEATER: $114,500 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetTECO THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INC: $114,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC: $108,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetUPTOWN PLAYERS INC: $102,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetFINE ARTS CHAMBER PLAYERS: $100,800 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY: $93,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $92,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPLANO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $83,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDALLAS CONTEMPORARY: $80,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $77,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWATERTOWER THEATRE INC: $75,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetDALLAS WIND SYMPHONY: $75,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetPREMIER LONE STAR WIND ORCHESTRA: $75,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetSECOND THOUGHT THEATRE: $68,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetEcho Theatre: $62,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetAvant Chamber Ballet Inc: $61,500 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetThe Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas: $58,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPRISM MOVEMENT THEATER: $57,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetPEGASUS MUSICAL SOCIETY: $55,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetAMERICAN BAROQUE OPERA COMPANY: $51,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetTHE CEDARS UNION: $51,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetCRY HAVOC THEATER COMPANY: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetARTS MISSION OAK CLIFF: $49,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetWRITERS GARRET: $44,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetLUMEDIA MUSICWORKS INC: $43,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER SINGERS INC: $37,500 over 4y, 8.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Dallas Center for the…Communities Foundatio…The Eugene McDermott …Texas Instruments Fou…Fichtenbaum Charitabl…Dallas Tourism Public…The Dallas FoundationBen E Keith Foundatio…Hoblitzelle FoundationRea Charitable TrustThe Addy FoundationMarch Family Foundati…
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment IncTX116.1× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 87 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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