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The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$546kEnvironment$29kEducation$14kHuman Services$10kOther$187k
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$2,404
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART$40,000
UNDERMAIN THEATER$7,500
BRAHM$7,400
DALLAS SYMPHONY$5,000
HAGAR'S HEART$5,000
DALLAS CONTEMPORARY$5,000
BLUE RIDGE PARKAY FOUNDATION$4,425
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$3,000
DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL$2,980
UNIVERSITY OF TX AT DALLAS$2,500
MODERN ART MUSEUM FORT WORTH$2,500
BROTHER BILL'S HELPING HAND$2,404
AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$2,244
NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER$2,115
SCF$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAGAR'S HEART: $5k → 14%HAGAR'S HEART: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$750k · 21 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$750k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+195%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +396%
  • DS
    DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +37%
  • DA
    DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • C
    CASETA
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • S1
    SITE 131
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
    one grant, 2023 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Dallas Architecture Forum

The Forum educates, enriches and connects our community by presenting programs and events, creating experiences, and engaging global and local thought-leaders from the design fields to enhance how we live.

Arts & Culture
2
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

3
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
5
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Inc

We are a vibrant cultural hub that provides, operates and activates exceptional spaces for artists, artistic organizations and our community.

Philanthropy
6
Dallas Regional Chamber

Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.

7
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation

The dallas tourism public improvement district ("dtpid") is a public improvement district dedicated to improving convention and group hotel bookings and hotel room night consumption in the city of dallas, texas.

Community Improvement
9
Dallas Bar Association

The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the…

10
Dallas Historical Society

The purpose of the society is to institute and encourage historical inquiry, to collect, preserve and exhibit the materials of history and to spread historical information, especially concerning the city of dallas, texas; the county of…

Arts & Culture
11
Dallas Childrens Theater Inc

The mission of dallas children's theater is to inspire young people to creative and productive lives through the art of theater.to give rise to inspiring theater, dallas children's theater:- creates and produces innovative professional…

Arts & Culture
12
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.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Constituting America Inc. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Dallas Museum of Art — $380,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtDALLAS CONTEMPORARY — $115,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CONTEMPORARYDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION+2 more — $11,115 · Arts & CultureUNDERMAIN THEATER — $57,500 · OtherUNDERMAIN THEATERAT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $27,244 · OtherAT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTE…MODERN ART MUSEUM FORT WORTH — $15,100 · OtherMODERN ART MUSEUM FORT WOR…CASETA — $15,000 · OtherCASETAUNIVERSITY OF TX AT DALLAS — $12,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TX AT DALLASNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $12,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND — $9,904 · OtherDALLAS ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION — $7,500 · OtherBRAHM — $7,400 · Other+10 more — $22,500 · Other+10 moreDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $13,480 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $11,525 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY — $4,210 · EnvironmentCONSTITUTING AMERICA INC — $8,000 · EducationCITYLAB HS FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationThe Brookwood Community Inc — $1,000 · EducationThe Leaders Readers Network — $1,000 · EducationHAGARS HEART — $10,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$546,115Other$186,648Environment$29,215Education$14,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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 Museum of Art
  • Who funds DALLAS CONTEMPORARY
  • Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HAGARS HEART
  • Who funds BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND
  • Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER
  • Who funds CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KIDLINKS
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc
  • Who funds The Leaders Readers Network

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.

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

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 The Bryant & Nancy Hanley Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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