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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Community Improvement$687kHuman Services$75k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $145,831, the rows itemized in this filing. The $324,855 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $179,024 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $132k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEN-TEX CERTIFIED DEVELOPMENT CORP$30,273
TRUFUND FINANCIAL SERVICES INC$24,104
WOMEN IN NEED OF GENEROUS SUPPORT$15,454
BODY SPRING LLC$15,000
RAISE A HOOD INC$15,000
LIMPLAR INC$12,500
METROLLA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
OVERTIME PLAYCARE LLC$7,000
EXPRESSIVE AROMAS LLC$6,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VETERAN WOMEN'S ENTERPRISE CENTER: $54k → 14%VETERAN WOMEN'S ENTERPRISE CENTER: $18k → 14%URBAN SPECIALISTS ENTERPRISES INC: $25k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED OF GENEROUS SUPPORT: $30k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED OF GENEROUS SUPPORT: $30k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED OF GENEROUS SUPPORT: $15k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$436k · 7 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$436k
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • AD
    ASCEND DALLAS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +42%
  • P
    PEOPLEFUND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +112%
  • JC
    JUST COMMUNITY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • US
    Urban Specialists Enterprises Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +13%
  • IV
    Impact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • BG
    BLACK GIRL MAGIC MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Acc Capital Inc

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.

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2
Waco Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Collaborative Inc

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.

Community Improvement
3
Womens Center for Economic Opportunity

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

Education
4
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
5
Womenventure

To empower women to achieve their economic goals by building profitable and sustainable businesses that transform communities.

Community Improvement
6
The Enterprise Center Capital Corporation

The enterprise center capital corporation's mission is to provide debt and equity capital that businesses need to start, grow and succeed.

—
7
Valley Small Business Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
8
First Community Capital Inc

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-…

Employment
9
Accessity

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…

Community Improvement
10
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.

Unclassified
11
The Verge Entrepreneurship Hub Foundation
Community Improvement
12
Virginia Community Development Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peoplefund; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUFUND FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $99,631 · OtherTRUFUND FINANCIAL SERVICES INCBLACK GIRL MAGIC MUSEUM: $20,000 · OtherBROTALLION LLC: $20,000 · OtherAUTIX AUTOMOTIVE INC: $17,000 · OtherDALLAS COLLEGE: $16,666 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherBODY SPRING LLC: $15,000 · OtherSURETYS INC: $15,000 · OtherCHEEZA PLEEZA LLC: $15,000 · OtherRAISE A HOOD INC: $15,000 · Other+14 more: $127,500 · Other+14 moreBUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LENDERS OF TEXAS: $87,950 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LENDE…LIFTFUND INC: $50,696 · Community ImprovementLIFTFUND INCPEOPLEFUND: $25,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLEFUNDJUST COMMUNITY INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementJUST COMMUNITY INCASCEND DALLAS: $75,268 · Human ServicesASCEND DALLASVeteran Womens Enterprise Center: $72,549 · Human ServicesVeteran Womens Enterprise…Urban Specialists Enterprises Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesUrban Specialists Enterpr…Impact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures: $25,000 · Education
Other$375,797Community Improvement$188,646Human Services$172,817Education$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LENDERS OF TEXAS: $87,950 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetASCEND DALLAS: $75,268 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVeteran Womens Enterprise Center: $72,549 over 2y, 31% of budgetLIFTFUND INC: $50,696 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLEFUND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Specialists Enterprises Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetImpact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJUST COMMUNITY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Wells Fargo FoundationTruist Foundation IncOpportunity Finance N…Stand Together Founda…BBVA FoundationMeadows Foundation IncComerica Charitable F…Mufg Union Bank Found…United Way of Metropo…The Dallas Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2023
’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
    2report 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 32 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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