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The Crystal Charity Ball

See schedule o - form 990, part iii, line 1to aid, support, and make contributions and donations to charitable, religious, or educational agencies and organizations located in dallas county, texas which are primarily concerned with or for the care, development or welfare of children.

$6.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$15MHuman Services$6.5MEducation$3.1MRecreation & Sports$2.5MHousing & Shelter$1.3MArts & Culture$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.1MYouth Development$808kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$649,336
Median grant
1
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$2,155,000
THE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY$897,980
VOGEL ALCOVE$737,429
METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$649,336
DALLAS HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM$635,179
PARKLAND HEALTH FOUNDATION$536,429
HHM HEALTH INC$504,724
TRAFFICK911$255,092
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $620k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $249k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $539k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $75k → 14%Jubilee Park & Community Center: $369k → 14%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $92k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $55k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $351k → 14%Interfaith Family Services: $521k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $37k → 14%Community Partners of Dallas: $581k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $777k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $100k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $77k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $602k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $257k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of The Crystal Charity Ball’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Crystal Charity Balllessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 25 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
16

Total granted

$20M
$8.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+3%

Still filing today

92%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +428%
  • AC
    ABILITY CONNECTION TEXAS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +29%
  • HH
    HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • BO
    BAYLOR ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -25% · 37% of their budget
  • UT
    UNITED TO LEARNgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +45% · 26% of their budget
  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $902k · revenue +131%

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
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
2
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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3
Dallas Physician Medical Services for Children Inc

Provide dental, general pediatric, and pediatric sub-specialty services, including, but not limited to emergency department coverage, inpatient coverage, orthopedic surgery, and craniofacial orthodontics regardless of payor source or…

Health
4
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
5
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.

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6
Dallas Center Inc

To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.

Human Services
7
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
8
Physicians for Children

To deliver primary care to children in critically under served areas of the North Central Texas community in a private physician office setting.

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9
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
10
Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc

Our mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We support the health and well-being of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment in the…

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11
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
12
MedHealth

To provide physician services to support the charitable functions and tax exempt purpose of Methodist Hospitals of Dallas (D/B/A Methodist Health System).

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Guidance Center and the most unlike its peers is For the Nations Refugee Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Support & Child Welf…Private Membership ClubsCatholic Healthcare NetworksCrisis Housing & Stabilizat…Private Membership ClubsFaith-Based Hospital SystemsYouth Amateur Sports LeaguesFoster Care & Child Placeme…Business & Industry Associa…Dallas Parks and Conservati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr17%4%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr9%44%35–55yr14%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr17%6%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr9%53%35–55yr14%14%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
18%
2,549/14,155

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.

05the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 47 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
27/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $6,829,375 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONBAYLOR ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,489,471 · HealthBAYLOR ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONABILITY CONNECTION TEXAS — $1,107,525 · HealthABILITY CONNECTION TEXASHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $1,013,099 · HealthHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INCTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY — $897,980 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYC…FOUNDATION FOR THE CALLIER CENTER AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS — $646,871 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION — $536,429 · Health+5 more — $812,958 · Health+5 moreDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $876,875 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADV…VOGEL ALCOVE — $737,429 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVEMOMMIES IN NEED — $695,221 · Human ServicesMOMMIES IN NEEDCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $657,552 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTIVE SERV…NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $630,510 · Human ServicesNETWORK OF COMMUNITY …BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $602,092 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FA…INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $557,833 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SER…JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $424,150 · Human ServicesJUBILEE PARK & COMMUN…YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $350,647 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROPOLITAN …HOPE SUPPLY CO — $256,903 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC — $249,119 · Human ServicesDALLAS SERVICES — $711,079 · OtherDALLAS SERVICESDallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc — $649,336 · OtherDallas Methodist H…LOS BARRIOS UNIDOS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $508,390 · OtherLOS BARRIOS UNIDOS…THE SALVATION ARMY — $451,233 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $433,676 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD B…DALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER — $376,810 · OtherDALLAS COUNTY MENT…AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $325,994 · OtherAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-S…For the Nations Refugee Outreach — $722,357 · OtherFor the Nations Re…FAMILY COMPASS — $434,040 · OtherFAMILY COMPASSTraffick911 — $255,092 · OtherDALLAS CASA — $361,875 · OtherDALLAS CASAUNITED TO LEARN — $1,048,897 · EducationUNITED TO LE…SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $901,875 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN…CATCH UP & READ INC — $782,309 · EducationCATCH UP & R…CRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC — $600,799 · EducationCRISTO REY D…EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS — $119,375 · EducationFAIR PARK FIRST — $861,929 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $646,875 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $635,179 · Arts & CulturePROMISE HOUSE INC — $676,572 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $662,429 · Housing & ShelterREADERS 2 LEADERS — $624,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERCY STREET — $233,172 · Youth DevelopmentCAFE MOMENTUM — $161,000 · Youth Development
Health$13,333,708Human Services$6,038,331Other$5,229,882Education$3,453,255Arts & Culture$2,143,983Housing & Shelter$1,339,001Youth Development$1,018,172

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $6,829,375 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBAYLOR ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,489,471 over 1y, 37% of budgetABILITY CONNECTION TEXAS — $1,107,525 over 2y, 10% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN — $1,048,897 over 1y, 26% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $1,013,099 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $901,875 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY — $897,980 over 1y, 15% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $876,875 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFAIR PARK FIRST — $861,929 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCATCH UP & READ INC — $782,309 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $737,429 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetFor the Nations Refugee Outreach — $722,357 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetDALLAS SERVICES — $711,079 over 2y, 21% of budgetMOMMIES IN NEED — $695,221 over 2y, 36% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC — $676,572 over 2y, 12% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $662,429 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $657,552 over 2y, 17% of budgetDallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc — $649,336 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $646,875 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CALLIER CENTER AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS — $646,871 over 2y, 40% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $635,179 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $630,510 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS — $624,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $602,092 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC — $600,799 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $557,833 over 2y, 23% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION — $536,429 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLOS BARRIOS UNIDOS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $508,390 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS — $434,040 over 1y, 20% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $433,676 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION — $424,150 over 2y, 10% of budgetDALLAS CASA — $361,875 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $350,647 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $325,994 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPhoenix Houses of Texas Inc — $300,875 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO — $256,903 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTraffick911 — $255,092 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC — $249,119 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetMERCY STREET — $233,172 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $166,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM — $161,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $127,833 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAGAPE CLINIC — $124,375 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS — $119,375 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $93,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Hillcrest FoundationThe Dallas FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Rees-Jones Founda…The Moody FoundationThe Aileen and Jack P…Communities Foundatio…Texas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…Hoblitzelle FoundationHarry Bass FoundationKatherine C Carmody C…
Hillcrest FoundationTX49.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillcrest Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Harry Bass Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw

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 Crystal Charity Ball 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 47 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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