· Private foundation
The Donachie Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sammons Center for the Arts | $13,607 |
| Theatre 4 the People | $12,000 |
| Communities Foundation | $10,654 |
| Anita Martinez Ballet Folklorico | $10,000 |
| University of North Texas | $6,348 |
| Dallas Jazz Piano Society | $6,300 |
| NCJW | $2,000 |
| St Monica Catholic Church | $2,000 |
| Hazelden Betty Ford | $1,500 |
| St Michaels and All Angels | $1,500 |
| ATTPAC | $1,250 |
| Readers 2 Leaders | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Tapestries Ministries | $1,000 |
| International Esperanza Project | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $6k) 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- SCSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +122%
- DSDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +22%
- SSSWAN STRINGS3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- SASt Andrew United Methodistone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TATHE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +39%
- NCNational Council of Jewish Womenone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher…
Teatro Dallas is committed to the cultural empowerment of the Latino community by representing our varied experiences, voices, and artistic expressions. Through high quality theatrical programming Teatro Dallas employs the power of theater…
To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.
New friends new life restores and empowers trafficked and sexually exploited teen girls, women and their children, and drives awareness of the issue and its prevalence. through case management, trauma-informed counseling, and economic…
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
The state fair of texas celebrates all things texan by promoting agriculture, education, and community involvement through quality entertainment in a family-friendly environment. the state fair of texas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit…
Providing music education primarily to children, but also to some adults and participating in outreach in the North Texas community.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Resource Council 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 45 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 77 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 ANITA N MARTINEZ BALLET FOLKLORIC INC ↗
- Who funds SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds National Council of Jewish Women Greater Dallas Section ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT DAY GREATER DALLAS DBA MOVEMENT DFW ↗
- Who funds SWAN STRINGS ↗
- Who funds READERS 2 LEADERS ↗
- Who funds THE SUICIDE AND CRISIS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds International Esperanza Project ↗
- Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds HEART HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC STAND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Aware Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
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 · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Bnsf Railway 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 Donachie 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.
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.