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The Howard Hallam Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2023
27
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$511k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$3.0MReligion$211kEducation$171kHealth$92kPhilanthropy$58kHuman Services$27kCommunity Improvement$22kFood & Nutrition$12kOther$0
02FY2023 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k16 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
  • $250k+1 grant · $511k
$3,826
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$10,000
SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$10,000
NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER$8,000
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH$5,000
THE BRIDGE$3,826
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOSPICE OF LUBBOCK: $1k → 17%CONCILIO: $1k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $5k → 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

MN
NY
CT
CO
VA
NM
HI
OK
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 43 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
33

Total granted

$3.5M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+35%

Still filing today

63%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCommunity 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
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +42%
  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    6× · 2018–2023 · $386k · revenue +338%
  • TD
    The Dallas Opera
    6× · 2018–2023 · $300k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • DC
    DALLAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • TF
    The Family Place
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +15%
  • PS
    POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -7%
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
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Dallas Contemporary

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…

Arts & Culture
3
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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4
Dallas Citizens Council

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

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5
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
6
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
7
Dallas College Foundation Inc

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.

Education
8
Dallas Regional Chamber

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.

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9
Dallas Architecture Forum

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Dallas Opera Foundation

Provide financial support to the dallas opera.

Philanthropy
11
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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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
40/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $1,170,595 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONDallas Museum of Art: $385,750 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtThe Dallas Opera: $300,000 · Arts & CultureThe Dallas OperaTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $161,250 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTERFINE ARTS CHAMBER PLAYERS: $156,000 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS CHAMBER PLAYERSSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $135,500 · Arts & CultureSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTSTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $95,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $210,250 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHU…AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $201,000 · OtherAT&T PERFORMING ARTS C…DALLAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherDALLAS CENTER FOR THE …SHELTON SCHOOL: $51,500 · OtherSHELTON SCHOOLMODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH: $50,000 · OtherMODERN ART MUSEUM OF F…MOMENTEOUS INSTITUTE - (SALESMANSHIP CLUB OF DALLAS): $40,500 · OtherMOMENTEOUS INSTITUTE -…BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $33,000 · Other+32 more: $46,490 · Other+32 moreDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $35,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $60,250 · EducationTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $58,500 · EducationLUMIN EDUCATION: $38,000 · Education+8 more: $18,350 · EducationMomentous Institute: $20,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Family Place: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE: $3,826 · Human ServicesTHE CONCILIO: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF LUBBOCK INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $500 · Human ServicesSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $2,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$2,504,095Other$732,740Philanthropy$200,000Education$175,100Youth Development$20,500Human Services$11,326Community Improvement$4,000

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: $1,170,595 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $385,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Dallas Opera: $300,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $161,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFINE ARTS CHAMBER PLAYERS: $156,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $135,500 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $60,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $58,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION: $38,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMomentous Institute: $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $3,826 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONCILIO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Alcohol Policy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF LUBBOCK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnnis Public Theatre: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Radio International Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Ben E Keith Foundatio…The Eugene McDermott …The Addy FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationHillcrest FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Perot FoundationThe Rosewood Foundati…Texas Women's Foundat…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX36.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Howard Hallam Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard Hallam Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 84 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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