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The Dallas Morning News Charities
For 40 years, The Dallas Morning News Charities has been dedicated to fighting hunger and homelessness throughout North Texas.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND | $195,947 |
| SAMARITAN INN | $186,948 |
| IRVING CARES INC | $181,948 |
| SHARING LIFE COMM OUTREACH IN | $176,948 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $166,948 |
| WILKINSON CENTER | $161,948 |
| ALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $151,948 |
| HARMONY COMMUNITY DEV CORP | $138,835 |
| THE CHOCOLATE MINT FOUNDATION | $136,948 |
| CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOP | $134,948 |
| CITY HOUSE INC | $126,947 |
| CLIFF TEMPLE BAPTIST CH MISSI | $119,947 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD INC | $108,835 |
| THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENT | $103,835 |
| FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER | $98,835 |
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 (FY25–25, $585k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.
Community lifeline center envisions a community where all of our neighbors are provided resources to overcome temporary adversity. we can achieve this vision by focusing on our mission to provide residents of collin county with basic…
To empower adults experiencing homelessness in dallas with the tools to homeless recovery as they move into sustainable housing.
Crossroads urban center provides food, clothing, and housing assistance services to low-income individuals and minorities.
Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.
Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area
See Schedule O.Katy Christian Ministries (KCM) is a social service non-profit that serves the Katy/West Houston area. KCM's Social Service Department offers emergency financial assistance, a Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the…
Resource center of dallas pursues societal equity by proudly offering lgbtqia+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, plus) affirming resources designed to improve health and wellness, strengthen…
North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.
The mission of Intown Cares is to prevent and reverse homelessness and hunger in Intown Atlanta. We envision a thriving community equipped to provide prompt and effective support for those experiencing homelessness and hunger. Our work is…
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
The St. Vincent Center (SVC) Provide emergency assistance and systemic change relief to those in need in the neighborhoods of Lancaster, Texas, and the surrounding communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our Daily Bread Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INN INC ↗
- Who funds Irving Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Harmony Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds CHOCOLATE MINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER ↗
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 · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · North Texas Food Bank · Coserv Charitable Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Morning News Charities 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.
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