· Community foundation
The Dallas Foundation
Dallas foundation brings together people, ideas and investments in greater dallas so individuals and families can reach their full potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 788 grants below total $87,254,672 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $90,645,841 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,391,169 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 $10k115 grants · $775k
- $10k–50k407 grants · $8.5M
- $50k–250k223 grants · $23M
- $250k+43 grants · $55M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $7,850,330 |
| NASPA | $6,078,441 |
| SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION | $5,636,745 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $3,257,250 |
| TRINITY PARK CONSERVANCY | $3,162,983 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $3,000,000 |
| SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH | $2,627,198 |
| DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $2,625,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $2,045,400 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $1,614,510 |
| PRAXIS HOUSING INITIATIVES INC | $1,200,000 |
| OURCALLING INC | $1,077,600 |
| MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE | $1,016,000 |
| PLANO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,010,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF DALLAS | $950,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $27.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
1033 repeat relationships — 583 still active in FY2024, 450 since wound down; 163 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M 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
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $16M · revenue +33%
- TPTrinity Park Conservancy4× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +405%
- SNSPAY NEUTER NETWORK7× · 2017–2023 · $7.9M · revenue +58% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- HMHOBBS MUNICIPAL SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $5.0M
- OCODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $4.0M · revenue -55% · 44% of their budget
- IPIDEA Public Schoolsgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2.5M · revenue +78%
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.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
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…
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Swan Strings. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1603 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. 1603 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Women's Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
- Who funds Trinity Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds SPAY NEUTER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds BONTON ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Circuit Trail Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOR OAK CLIFF ↗
- Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
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: W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc
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 Foundation 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Orange Bowl Committee Inc — 0% of income from government
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.