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The Koz 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.

$894k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Arts & Culture$450kHealth$346kEducation$185kYouth Development$157kHuman Services$148kEnvironment$55kRecreation & Sports$50kEmployment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $633k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $225k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER OPERATING ENDOWMENT FUND$75,000
DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE$50,000
METROCARE$50,000
HUGS CAF INC$50,000
OUTLOUD DALLAS$42,175
HARVARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$40,000
DALLAS THEATER CENTER$30,000
BIG THOUGHT$30,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DALLAS INC$25,000
DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL$25,000
COMMUNITY DOES IT$25,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGION$25,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS$25,000
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DALLAS INC: $25k → 14%TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $3k → 14%YOUTH180: $25k → 14%YOUTH180: $25k → 14%FORWARD FKA NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%HEART HOUSE: $15k → 14%DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY DOES IT: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY DOES IT: $25k → 14%ON EAGLE'S WINGS LLC DBA WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of The Koz Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Koz Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$581k · 13 repeat orgs$850k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$581k
$301k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+43%

Still filing today

77%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $549k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • DM
    Dallas Museum of Art
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +427%
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DOES IT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +116%
  • Y1
    YOUTH 180 INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +216%
  • GH
    GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +32%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +1%

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

04Your field

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.

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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
2
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

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.

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3
Teatro Hispano De Dallas

Teatro Dallas is committed to the cultural empowerment of the Latino community by representing our varied experiences, voices, and artistic expressions. Through high quality theatrical programming Teatro Dallas employs the power of theater…

Arts & Culture
4
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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5
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
6
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
7
Broadway Dallas Inc

To educate the public in music appreciation and fine arts, including the presentation of musical theater and other shows with educational value.

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Dallas International University

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

Education
10
Glasstire

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

Arts & Culture
11
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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12
Theatre Three Inc

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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Childrens Theater Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDallas Arts OrganizationsTheater & Performance ArtsWomen's Reproductive Health…Music Performance Organizat…Homeless Services & Housing…Independent SchoolsFamily & Child Welfare Serv…Parks and Gardens ManagementChildren's Health & Wellnes…Health Services and Medical…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%7%<5yr17%7%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr9%32%35–55yr14%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%4%<5yr17%6%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr9%38%35–55yr14%30%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
18%
2,549/14,157

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.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
20/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INCTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTERNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INCBIG THOUGHT — $60,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHTDallas Museum of Art — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INCDALLAS THEATER CENTER — $30,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS THEATER CENTERDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $19,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY DOES IT — $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY DOES ITYOUTH 180 INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH 180 INCPOETIC — $25,000 · Human ServicesPOETICNORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesNORTH DALLAS SHAR…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $25,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SER…ON EAGLES WINGS INC AKA WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC — $25,000 · Human ServicesON EAGLES WINGS I…DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES — $20,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS HOPE CHARI…HEART HOUSE — $15,000 · Human ServicesHEART HOUSE+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationGRANT HALLIBURTO…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC — $50,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN S…SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MED…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $40,000 · EducationPresident and Fe…ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS — $15,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL…University of Notre Dame du Lac — $10,000 · EducationHOCKADAY SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationHUGS CAFE INC — $50,000 · OtherHUGS CAFE INCMETROCARE — $50,000 · OtherMETROCARECAMPAIGN FOR KINDNESS (TACKY BOX) — $25,000 · OtherCAMPAIGN FOR KINDN…Individual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…KIDLINKS — $15,000 · OtherKIDLINKSST RITA CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $15,000 · OtherST RITA CATHOLIC S…ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $30,600 · OtherCOMMUNITIES FOUNDA…FOREST FORWARD — $10,000 · Other+2 more — $5,906 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentOutLoud Dallas — $42,175 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $50,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthRAINBOW DAYS INC — $15,000 · HealthRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $15,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · Health
Arts & Culture$509,500Human Services$237,500Education$225,000Other$241,506Youth Development$117,175Environment$100,000Health$80,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC — $120,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG THOUGHT — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDallas Museum of Art — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY DOES IT — $50,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH 180 INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUGS CAFE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOutLoud Dallas — $42,175 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $30,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOETIC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMomentous Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetON EAGLES WINGS INC AKA WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDALLAS HOPE CHARITIES — $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHEART HOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRAINBOW DAYS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIDLINKS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST FORWARD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTECO THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS STREET CHOIR — $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetThe ArtFullness Project DBA The Art Room — $4,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND THOUGHT THEATRE — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Dallas FoundationThe Addy FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…The Eugene McDermott …Hillcrest FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationFichtenbaum Charitabl…Hoblitzelle FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX44.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Addy Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse 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 Koz 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Koz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Koz 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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