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The Halperin 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 $10k48 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $555k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION | $2,475,000 |
| BRUCE WOOD DANCE DALLAS | $625,681 |
| KERA | $200,000 |
| ALCOR | $150,000 |
| NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM | $55,000 |
| RESOURCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE STEW POT | $50,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| STANFORD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $30,000 |
| MIDDLESEX SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NEXUS RECOVERY CENTER | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 26 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M 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
- BWBRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC6× · 2017–2022 · $2.7M · revenue +81% · 84% of their budget
- NTNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC3× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +195%
- NRNexus Recovery Center Incorporated6× · 2019–2024 · $243k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- MPMIKEYS PLACE INCone grant, 2023 · $261k
- MUMINERVA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +5%
- KAKHAN ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +121%
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.
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.
We are a vibrant cultural hub that provides, operates and activates exceptional spaces for artists, artistic organizations and our community.
The mission of dallas children's theater is to inspire young people to creative and productive lives through the art of theater.to give rise to inspiring theater, dallas children's theater:- creates and produces innovative professional…
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
To educate the public in music appreciation and fine arts, including the presentation of musical theater and other shows with educational value.
To create and produce contemporary and modern dance at its highest level of artistic excellence through performances and educational programs that bridge cultures and reach diverse communities
Midland festival ballet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to promote and present the art of classical ballet through education, performance, and outreach.
To inspire and change lives through musical excellence.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
We are an intimate stage for everyone. Playwrights will invent, artists will risk, and audiences will be immersed in new and familiar plays they can see from all sides. Feel emboldened, entertained and intrigued rediscover and reach for T3.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Arts District Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Cedars Union. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
129 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. 129 of the 205 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 BRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MINERVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds PA Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARA MIA THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds Organ Preservation Alliance Incorporated ↗
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 Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Taca Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway 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 Halperin 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.
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc — 4% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
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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