Texas · 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.
- $325k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $146k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,273
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 18
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Dallas Ec funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $146k | 70% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $253k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $363k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business and Community Lenders of Texas | $87,950 | 3 | 1% |
| Ascend Dallas | $75,268 | 3 | 1% |
| Veteran Womens Enterprise Center | $72,549 | 2 | 31% |
| Liftfund Inc | $50,696 | 2 | 0% |
| Peoplefund | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Urban Specialists Enterprises Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Impact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Just Community Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($376k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dallas Ec supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Dallas Ec
- How much does The Dallas Ec give?
- The Dallas Ec reported 10 itemized grants totaling $145,831, out of $324,855 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does The Dallas Ec fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (90%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are The Dallas Ec's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Business and Community Lenders of Texas ($88k), Ascend Dallas ($75k), Veteran Womens Enterprise Center ($73k).
- Does The Dallas Ec fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Dallas Ec?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation.
- Where is The Dallas Ec based?
- The Dallas Ec is based in TX.
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