· Private foundation
The Howard Hallam Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k16 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
- $250k+1 grant · $511k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $511,000 |
| DALLAS OPERA | $150,000 |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $100,000 |
| SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $60,000 |
| AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $40,000 |
| FINE ARTS CHAMBER PLAYERS | $30,000 |
| MOMENTEOUS INSTITUTE - (SALESMANSHIP CLUB OF DALLAS) | $10,250 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS | $10,000 |
| BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER | $8,000 |
| MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH | $5,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $3,826 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $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 (FY19–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
43 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +42%
- DMDallas Museum of Art6× · 2018–2023 · $386k · revenue +338%
- TDThe Dallas Opera6× · 2018–2023 · $300k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- DCDALLAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k
- TFThe Family Placeone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +15%
- PSPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -7%
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.
Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national 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.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.
The Forum educates, enriches and connects our community by presenting programs and events, creating experiences, and engaging global and local thought-leaders from the design fields to enhance how we live.
Provide financial support to the dallas opera.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ennis Public Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 84 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 DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS CHAMBER PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE CHINATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas ↗
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 · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Perot Foundation · The Rosewood Foundation · Texas Women's 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 Howard Hallam Family 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.