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United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas

The foundation was founded exclusively for the purpose of receiving gifts, grants and bequests in order to establish an endowment fund for the long-term benefit of the united way of metropolitan dallas (uwmd).

$3.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$580,783
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,673,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$78M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyCrime & LegalPublic BenefitEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$3.4M75%
FY20245$2.7M60%
FY20235$3.0M60%
FY20222$2.7M0%
FY20212$2.7M0%
FY20202$3.0M50%
FY20191$2.5M0%
FY20183$3.0M67%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$23MHealth$581kPublic Safety & Disaster$500kEducation$221kRecreation & Sports$40kCrime & Legal$13k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc$22,162,25595%
Children's Medical Center Foundation$580,7831n/a
The Salvation Army$500,0001n/a
United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas$472,333310%
Southern Methodist University$100,00010%
Lutheran Secondary Association of Dallas Inc$50,0001n/a
Teammates for Kids Foundation$40,00020%
Henryetta Public Schools$30,0002n/a
Lsu Foundation$25,00010%
Henryetta Live Foundation$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc$22,162,25595%
Children's Medical Center Foundation$580,7831n/a
The Salvation Army$500,0001n/a
United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas$472,333310%
Southern Methodist University$100,00010%
Lutheran Secondary Association of Dallas Inc$50,0001n/a
Teammates for Kids Foundation$40,00020%
Henryetta Public Schools$30,0002n/a
Lsu Foundation$25,00010%
Henryetta Live Foundation$10,0001n/a
New Friends New Life$7,50010%
Lakehill Preparatory School$6,00010%
Legal Aid of Northwest Texas$5,50010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc: $22,162,255 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetUnited Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas: $472,333 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeammates for Kids Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLsu Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Friends New Life: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLakehill Preparatory School: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Aid of Northwest Texas: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas

How much does United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas give?
United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas reported 4 grants totaling $3,395,783 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (94%), Health (2%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).
Who are United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc ($22M), Children's Medical Center Foundation ($581k), The Salvation Army ($500k).
Does United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas based?
United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas is based in TX.

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 13 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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