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Trec Community Investors

TREC COMMUNITY INVESTORS joins forces with underserved communities to invest in the disinvested, energize neighborhoods, and change lives.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.3MCommunity Improvement$818kHuman Services$245kHousing & Shelter$150kReligion$114kEmployment$90kArts & Culture$70k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $190,090, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,268,656 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,078,566 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$75,090
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZAN WESLEY HOLMES COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER$100,000
SOUTH DALLAS FAIR PARK INNERCITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$75,090
SCHOLARSHOT$15,000
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 (FY21–24, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ZAN WESLEY HOLMES COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $100k → 14%CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75k → 14%CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $70k → 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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$486k · 3 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$486k
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+66%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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× · 2021–2023 · $251k · revenue +49%
  • CC
    CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $145k · revenue +121%
  • S
    SCHOLARSHOT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • LI
    LIFTFUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $818k · revenue +66%
  • DC
    DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $786k · revenue +689%
  • C
    COMMIT2DALLASgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +28%
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
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
2
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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3
Dallas Education Collective

To improve the Dallas public education system by raising and deploying capital to institutions in the most disadvantaged areas of the city.

Public Benefit
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
Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

To grow and support the hispanic business community in north texas.

Community Improvement
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
Green Careers Texas

Green Careers Texass mission is to disrupt poverty through green career training and employment, in combination with community education.By providing solar PV installation and safety training in the part of Dallas suffering the highest…

Environment
8
Dallas Development Fund

See schedule othe dallas development fund is organized for the purpose of aiding, assisting, and acting on behalf of the city of dallas, texas in the the performance of its governmental functions to promote the common good and general…

Health
9
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
10
Community Innovation Partners

To support and sustain the dallas community and the surrounding area through educational opportunities that emphasize innovation, creativity, and individualized learning.

Education
11
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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12
Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce

To serve as an advocate for the creation, growth, and general welfare of African-Americanbusinesses in the greate Dallas area. The Chamber focuses on economic and businessdevelopment, education, and special projects.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Philips School and Community Center; the most unlike its peers is Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Museum. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $785,750 · EducationDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCCOMMIT2DALLAS: $250,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASLIFTFUND INC: $818,250 · Community ImprovementLIFTFUND INCST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $251,356 · OtherST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND…THE WINNERS ASSEMBLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD: $114,000 · OtherTHE WINNERS ASSEMBLY …SCHOLARSHOT: $90,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHOTWFMF LLC: $75,179 · OtherWFMF LLCCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $145,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTON…ZAN WESLEY HOLMES JR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesZAN WESLEY…SOUTH DALLAS FAIR PARK INNERCITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,090 · Housing & ShelterKathlyn Joy Gilliam Museum: $70,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,035,750Community Improvement$818,250Other$530,535Human Services$245,000Housing & Shelter$75,090Arts & Culture$70,000

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 budgetLIFTFUND INC: $818,250 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $785,750 over 1y, 13% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $251,356 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $145,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetZAN WESLEY HOLMES JR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT: $90,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTH DALLAS FAIR PARK INNERCITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,090 over 1y, 12% of budgetKathlyn Joy Gilliam Museum: $70,000 over 1y, 65% 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.

Communities Foundatio…State Fair of TexasTexas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…The Dallas FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · State Fair of Texas · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Trec Community Investors funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trec Community Investors. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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