Texas · Private foundation
The Eugene McDermott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $55M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 140
- Grants FY2025
- 91
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 96
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $131M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations The Eugene McDermott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 121 | $54M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 91 | $61M | 45% |
| FY2023 | 96 | $21M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $16M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $15M | 54% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $16M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Symphony Association | $15,702,500 | 5 | 22% |
| Dallas Zoological Society | $14,775,000 | 6 | 42% |
| Dallas Museum of Art | $13,975,000 | 6 | 22% |
| The Dallas Opera | $10,650,000 | 4 | 38% |
| Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation | $6,500,000 | 3 | 29% |
| United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $6,300,000 | 6 | 5% |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | $5,800,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc | $5,000,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Resource Center of Dallas Inc | $3,800,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Texas Trees Foundation | $3,500,000 | 4 | 19% |
Show all 172 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($43M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Eugene McDermott Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 152 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Eugene McDermott Foundation
- How much does The Eugene McDermott Foundation give?
- The Eugene McDermott Foundation reported 140 grants totaling $55,464,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 96 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Eugene McDermott Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Health (17%), Animals (9%).
- Who are The Eugene McDermott Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dallas Symphony Association ($16M), Dallas Zoological Society ($15M), Dallas Museum of Art ($14M).
- Does The Eugene McDermott Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Eugene McDermott Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Eugene McDermott Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Hoblitzelle Foundation.
- Where is The Eugene McDermott Foundation based?
- The Eugene McDermott Foundation is based in TX.
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