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The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,404
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$9.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$106k22%
FY202322$116k23%
FY202216$82k0%
FY202118$90k56%
FY202011$104k36%
FY20198$96k13%
FY20187$94k0%
FY20177$99kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$657kEducation$30kEnvironment$21kReligion$17kPhilanthropy$15kFood & Nutrition$12kHuman Services$10kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dallas Museum of Art$380,00080%
Dallas Contemporary$115,00081%
Dallas Symphony Association$40,00080%
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc$13,48040%
North Texas Food Bank$12,00040%
Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation$11,52540%
Hagars Heart$10,00023%
Brother Bills Helping Hand$9,90440%
The Nasher Sculpture Center$9,61540%
Constituting America Inc$8,00040%
Blue Ridge Conservancy$4,21040%
Citylab Hs Foundation$4,00041%
Kidlinks$2,00010%
North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc$1,50010%
The Brookwood Community Inc$1,00010%
The Leaders Readers Network$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDallas Museum of Art: $380,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Contemporary: $115,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetDallas Symphony Association: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc: $13,480 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Parkway Foundation: $11,525 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHagars Heart: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBrother Bills Helping Hand: $9,904 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nasher Sculpture Center: $9,615 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConstituting America Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBlue Ridge Conservancy: $4,210 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCitylab Hs Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKidlinks: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorth Texas Public Broadcasting Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Leaders Readers Network: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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 Foundation of Texas IncTX16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation 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.

About The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation

How much does The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation give?
The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $106,278 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (84%), Education (4%), Environment (3%).
Who are The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dallas Museum of Art ($380k), Dallas Contemporary ($115k), Dallas Symphony Association ($40k).
Does The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation based?
The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation is based in TX.

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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