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The Real Estate Council Foundation

THE REAL ESTATE COUNCIL FOUNDATION ignites positive community change and provides innovative solutions that help support local communities through its unique approach which utilizes the professional skills of the members of the parent organization.

$30k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$1.3MEducation$437kEmployment$120kCommunity Improvement$89kPublic Safety & Disaster$15k
02FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHOT$25,000
CITYSQUARE$5,191
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 (FY17–20, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Jubilee Park & Community Center Corporation: $100k → 14%Cornerstone Baptist Church: $244k → 14%Cornerstone Baptist Church: $100k → 14%Cornerstone Baptist Church: $79k → 14%Cornerstone Baptist Church: $67k → 14%Cornerstone Baptist Church: $67k → 14%CitySquare: $133k → 14%CitySquare: $133k → 14%CitySquare: $133k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 5 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +121% since the first grant, against +88% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$1.8M
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
+88%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • SP
    ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $628k · revenue +162%
  • CC
    CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $556k · revenue +121%
  • S
    SCHOLARSHOT
    4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • JP
    JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +88%
  • BB
    BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $64k · revenue +13%
  • IE
    INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +153%
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
South Dallas Fair Park Innercity Development Corporation

ICDC was formed for the purpose of promoting the expansion of adequate, affordable neighborhood housing and employment opportunities for low and moderate income residents of the South Dallas/Fair Park area of Dallas and to engage in…

Housing & Shelter
3
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
4
Dallas Innovation Alliance

The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a 501(c)(3) public-private consortium of public, private, civic and academia to support smart city initiatives in Dallas. Our definition of a Smart City is one at the intersection of community, data…

Community Improvement
5
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
6
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…

Employment
7
Child Poverty Action Lab

The child poverty action lab exists to reduce child poverty in dallas by 50% within a single generation.

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8
Dallas International University

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

Education
9
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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10
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
11
Greenspace Dallas

Improving public and park land communities using educational and vocational training for underserved youth.

Environment
12
Dallas Bethlehem Center Inc

Dallas Bethlehem Center supports families living in our South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood through education, health & wellness programs and technology supports.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Community Development Corporation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Better Block Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $556,050 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INCCITYSQUARE: $405,191 · Human ServicesCITYSQUAREJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATIONST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $628,001 · OtherST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTERSCHOLARSHOT: $100,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHOT+1 more: $15,000 · OtherCOMMIT2DALLAS: $90,000 · EducationBETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION: $64,250 · Community ImprovementINTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $25,000 · International
Human Services$1,061,241Other$743,001Education$90,000Community Improvement$64,250International$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $628,001 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $405,191 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT: $100,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION: $64,250 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

United Way of Metropo…The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas IncTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas 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 Real Estate Council Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Real Estate Council Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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