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The Eugene McDermott Foundation at a glance

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The Eugene McDermott Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55M
Granted FY2025still arriving
140
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$7.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$68MHealth$30MAnimals$17MEnvironment$16MEducation$13MPhilanthropy$8.0MScience & Tech$5.8MRecreation & Sports$4.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 140 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $998k
  • $50k–250k52 grants · $4.7M
  • $250k+41 grants · $50M
$75,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$131M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UT Southwestern Medical Center$1,000,000
First Presbyterian Church$1,000,000
Communities Foundation of Texas$1,000,000
Dallas Symphony Orchestra$1,000,000
Texas Tree Foundation$1,000,000
SPCA of Texas$1,000,000
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights$1,000,000
UTSW and Childrens Health$1,000,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Vogel Alcove: $100k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas: $50k → 14%Ascend Dallas: $100k → 14%Ascend Dallas: $50k → 14%Housing Forward: $1.0M → 14%Dallas Childrens Advocacy Center: $25k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $50k → 14%North Dallas Shared Ministries Inc: $100k → 14%Family Place Inc: $50k → 14%Family Place Inc: $25k → 14%Family Place Inc: $25k → 14%Family Place Inc: $25k → 14%Family Place Inc: $15k → 14%Family Place Inc: $10k → 14%Family Place Inc: $5k → 14%Encore Park Dallas: $500k → 14%Encore Park Dallas: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
IN
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CA
CO
MO
VA
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$153M · 130 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

130
93

Total granted

$153M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+0%

Still filing today

66%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DS
    DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $16M · revenue +27%
  • DZ
    DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15M · revenue +164% · 42% of their budget
  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14M · revenue +282%

Funded once

  • FP
    FAIR PARK FIRST
    one grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue +20%
  • WD
    WILDFLOWER DONOR INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.3M · revenue -99%
  • Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Downtown Dallas Inc

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.…

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2
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
3
Dallas Wind Symphony

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Dallas County Medical Society

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.

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5
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
6
Dallas Center for Photography

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.

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7
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
8
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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9
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
10
Dallas Bar Association

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…

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11
The Dallas Opera Foundation

Provide financial support to the dallas opera.

Philanthropy
12
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; 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.
04the grantee network

168 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
166/168
Grantees still filing
91/168
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $15,702,500 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONDallas Museum of Art: $13,975,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtThe Dallas Opera: $10,650,000 · Arts & CultureThe Dallas OperaNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $5,800,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC+32 more: $16,901,000 · Arts & Culture+32 moreUniversity of Texas at Dallas: $7,605,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas at DallasHealth Equity Foundation of Greater: $5,000,000 · OtherHealth Equity Foundation of GreaterUT Southwestern Medical Center: $5,000,000 · OtherUT Southwestern Medical CenterTEXAS TREES FOUNDATION: $3,500,000 · OtherTEXAS TREES FOUNDATION+119 more: $42,452,500 · Other+119 moreDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $14,775,000 · AnimalsDALLAS ZO…SPCA of Texas: $1,010,000 · AnimalsSPCA of T…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $5,000,000 · HealthRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $3,800,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $700,000 · Health+3 more: $400,000 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $3,215,000 · EducationTHE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $2,000,000 · EducationTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL: $1,125,000 · EducationDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $725,000 · EducationThe Kessler School: $650,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationLUMIN EDUCATION: $455,000 · Education+13 more: $1,120,000 · EducationSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $6,500,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY: $1,035,000 · Community ImprovementTRANSFORM 1012 N MAIN STREET: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementFOREST FORWARD: $750,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $330,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $6,300,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $385,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $40,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$63,028,500Other$63,557,500Animals$15,785,000Health$12,400,000Education$10,790,000Community Improvement$9,615,000Philanthropy$7,725,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $15,702,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $14,775,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $13,975,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetThe Dallas Opera: $10,650,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $6,500,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $6,300,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $5,800,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $5,000,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $3,800,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTEXAS TREES FOUNDATION: $3,500,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $3,215,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $2,000,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetTHE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $2,000,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $1,900,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $1,757,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetTACA INC: $1,755,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $1,665,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,550,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFAIR PARK FIRST: $1,500,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $1,170,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL: $1,125,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $1,050,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN DALLAS PARKS CONSERVANCY: $1,035,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $1,010,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTRANSFORM 1012 N MAIN STREET: $1,000,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreenspace Dallas: $800,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $725,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $700,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Kessler School: $650,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $635,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetEncore Park Dallas: $600,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $600,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $595,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $565,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CEDARS UNION: $550,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $520,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION: $455,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $385,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc: $350,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN RAILROAD: $280,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetOutLoud Dallas: $270,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBLACK TIE DINNER INC: $260,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE COMPASS SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
  • 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 Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗

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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Hoblitzelle FoundationHillcrest FoundationThe Addy FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Theodore and Beulah B…The Moody FoundationTaca IncThe Perot FoundationMeadows Foundation Inc
The Dallas FoundationTX103.1× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Eugene McDermott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eugene McDermott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Eugene McDermott Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Eugene McDermott Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 268 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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