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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 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, FY2019 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of The Crystal Charity Ball’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 94%.

The Crystal Charity Balllessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
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
    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%
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
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 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
3
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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4
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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5
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
6
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
7
Dcms Foundation

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

Health
8
Texas Children's

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
9
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
Mission East Dallas and Metroplex

To provide Medical and Dental Care to all patients in Dallas and its surrounding cities regardless of ability to pay.

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11
Central Texas Community Health Centers

Communitycare operates 25 health center locations offering comprehensive primary care services for the entire family including pediatrics, behavioral health services, and dental care.

Health
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Child Guidance Center; the most unlike its peers is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
30/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

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

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 The Crystal Charity Ball funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Crystal Charity Ball. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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