· Public charity
The Dallas Ec
The purpose of the dallas entrepreneur center is to encourage economic development in dallas by encouraging and equipping the entrepreneurial community to be one of the best startup ecosystems in the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $145,831 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $324,855 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $179,024 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $132k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEN-TEX CERTIFIED DEVELOPMENT CORP | $30,273 |
| TRUFUND FINANCIAL SERVICES INC | $24,104 |
| WOMEN IN NEED OF GENEROUS SUPPORT | $15,454 |
| RAISE A HOOD INC | $15,000 |
| BODY SPRING LLC | $15,000 |
| LIMPLAR INC | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| METROLLA | $10,000 |
| OVERTIME PLAYCARE LLC | $7,000 |
| EXPRESSIVE AROMAS LLC | $6,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $173k) 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.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ADASCEND DALLAS3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +42%
- PPEOPLEFUND2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +112%
- JCJUST COMMUNITY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- USUrban Specialists Enterprises Incone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +13%
- IVImpact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Venturesone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +24%
- BGBLACK GIRL MAGIC MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Acc capital is a private nonprofit financial leader on a mission for economic change. we are dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and uplifting communities with accessible loans, resources, and over 68 years of experience.
Start up waco is a texas nonprofit organization formed via collaboration of cross-sector partnerships that aspire to lead waco's entrepreneurial support efforts and elevate waco as a hub for business innovation.
Our mission is to elevate & empower under-resourced business owners, leaders and innovators with pathways to the capital customers, contracts and connections needed to become financially secure
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
To empower women to achieve their economic goals by building profitable and sustainable businesses that transform communities.
The enterprise center capital corporation's mission is to provide debt and equity capital that businesses need to start, grow and succeed.
Providing capital, management assistance and other financial resources, including loan services, personnel, and business education to small business entrepreneurs in economically disadvantaged areas, and thereby stimulating economic…
First Community Capital, Inc. (FCCI) is a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) dedicated to expanding access to affordable capital and technical assistance for small businesses and individuals, with a focus on low-…
Accessity is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment where all entrepreneurs are welcomed and supported. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or any…
The purpose of the dallas entrepreneur center is to encourage economic development in dallas by encouraging and equipping the entrepreneurial community to be one of the best startup ecosystems in the world.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peoplefund and the most unlike its peers is Urban Specialists Enterprises Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LENDERS OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ASCEND DALLAS ↗
- Who funds Veteran Womens Enterprise Center ↗
- Who funds LIFTFUND INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLEFUND ↗
- Who funds Urban Specialists Enterprises Inc ↗
- Who funds Impact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures ↗
- Who funds JUST COMMUNITY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Opportunity Finance Network · Stand Together Foundation · BBVA Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas 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 Dallas Ec 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.
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.