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Trinity Park Conservancy

Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas.

$543k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$38k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Community Improvement$652kEmployment$270kYouth Development$121kEnvironment$80kArts & Culture$7k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $94,974, the rows itemized in this filing. The $542,645 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $447,671 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$119M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greenspace Dallas$37,774
Lone Star Justice Alliance$20,000
On-Target Supplies$15,000
Prof Opportunity Connection$15,000
Wesley-Rankin Comm Ctr$7,200
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 (FY23–25, $37k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wesley-Rankin Comm Ctr: $7k → 14%Southern Dallas Link: $15k → 14%Southern Dallas Link: $15k → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$946k · 7 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$946k
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+40%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • TP
    Trinity Park Conservancy Community Development Corporation
    2× · 2021–2023 · $482k · revenue ×12 · 55% of their budget
  • BO
    Builders of Hope CDC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $147k · revenue +395%
  • GD
    Greenspace Dallas
    4× · 2022–2025 · $121k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TD
    TPC Development Corporation
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -17%
  • UI
    Upsmith Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
3
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
4
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
5
Greater Dallas Planning Council

Promotion of urban planning in the greater dallas area.

Community Improvement
6
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
7
Safer Dallas Better Dallas

The corporation is operated to prevent and reduce crime in the dallascounty area by, among other things, providing funding and/or equipmentto local law enforcement agencies, pursuing other avenues for fundinglocal public safety, assisting…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Southern Dallas Progress Community Development Corporation

Serve as a vehicle through which residents and businesses can work together to solve problems and improve life in their community.

Community Improvement
9
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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10
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
11
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
12
Remembering Black Dallas Inc

Preserving and promoting African American culture and heritage in Dallas, Texas

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wesley-Rankin Community Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rbca Community Developmkent Corp. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trinity Park Conservancy Community Development Corporation: $482,421 · Community ImprovementTrinity Park Conservancy Community Development CorporationBuilders of Hope CDC: $147,209 · Community ImprovementBuilders of Hope CDCRBCA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMKENT CORP: $25,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTPC Development Corporation: $80,182 · OtherTPC Development Corp…On-Target Supplies: $55,000 · OtherOn-Target SuppliesPROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITY CONNECTION FOR ALL: $45,000 · OtherPROFESSIONAL OPPORTU…Upsmith Inc: $25,000 · OtherUpsmith IncGreenspace Dallas: $121,363 · EnvironmentGreenspace D…LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $65,000 · Crime & LegalSouthern Dallas Link Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,200 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$669,630Other$205,182Environment$121,363Crime & Legal$65,000Human Services$37,200Philanthropy$25,000Arts & Culture$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrinity Park Conservancy Community Development Corporation: $482,421 over 2y, 55% of budgetBuilders of Hope CDC: $147,209 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetGreenspace Dallas: $121,363 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetLONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $65,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSouthern Dallas Link Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRBCA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMKENT CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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…Hoblitzelle FoundationHillcrest FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas IncTX19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover 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 · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Trinity Park Conservancy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trinity Park Conservancy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    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
    ⤢ 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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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