· Private foundation
The Eugene McDermott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $998k
- $50k–250k52 grants · $4.7M
- $250k+41 grants · $50M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Dallas Opera | $7,000,000 |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting | $5,000,000 |
| Health Equity Foundation of Greater | $5,000,000 |
| Southern Gateway Public Green Fnd | $5,000,000 |
| Resource Center of Dallas Inc | $3,000,000 |
| United Way of Metropolitan Dallas | $2,000,000 |
| Compass School of Texas | $1,500,000 |
| Texas Tree Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Georgia OKeeffe Museum | $1,000,000 |
| SPCA of Texas | $1,000,000 |
| Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights | $1,000,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $1,000,000 |
| UT Southwestern Medical Center | $1,000,000 |
| UTSW and Childrens Health | $1,000,000 |
| Communities Foundation of Texas | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
130 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M 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
- DSDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $16M · revenue +27%
- DZDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $15M · revenue +207% · 42% of their budget
- DMDallas Museum of Art6× · 2020–2025 · $14M · revenue +282%
Funded once
- FPFAIR PARK FIRSTone grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue 0%
- WDWILDFLOWER DONOR INCone grant, 2024 · $1.3M · revenue -99%
- TPTexas Parks & Wildlife Departmentone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
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.
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.…
Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…
The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and…
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Dallas Center for Photography's mission is to serve as a focal point for creators and appreciators of all forms of photography through education, mentorship, exhibitions, and community outreach.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the…
Provide financial support to the dallas opera.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center 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 36 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
168 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. 168 of the 268 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 DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER ↗
- Who funds TACA INC ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FAIR PARK FIRST ↗
- Who funds WILDFLOWER DONOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
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: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Taca Inc · The Perot Foundation · Meadows 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 Eugene McDermott 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.
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