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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2.7M
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 2025.

Philanthropy$23MHealth$581kPublic Safety & Disaster$500kEducation$221kRecreation & Sports$40kCrime & Legal$13k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
$580,783
Median grant
2
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$2,673,000
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$580,783
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$100,000
LSU FOUNDATION$25,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS: $6k → 11%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $2.7M → 14%HENRYETTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $20k → 19%TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%LSU FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $2.7M → 14%HENRYETTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 19%TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $2.7M → 14%HENRYETTA LIVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $2.6M → 14%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $2.6M → 14%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $2.5M → 14%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $2.5M → 14%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $2.5M → 14%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $942k → 14%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $369k → 14%DESIGNATED DONATIONS TO UWFMD: $329k → 14%DESIGNATED DONATIONS TO UWFMD: $130k → 14%DESIGNATED DONATIONS TO UWMD: $13k → 14%LUTHERAN SECONDARY ASSOCIATION OF DALLAS: $50k → 14%NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $8k → 14%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $581k → 14%THE SALVATION ARMY: $500k → 14%LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $6k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 4 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$23M
$579k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
0%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $706k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue -19%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY FOUNDATION OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $472k · revenue +148%
  • TF
    TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2018 · $500k
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SECONDARY ASSOCIATION OF DALLAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • HL
    HENRYETTA LIVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
2
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
3
Dallas International University

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

Education
4
Texas a&M Foundation

The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.

Education
5
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
6
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
7
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
8
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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9
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
10
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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11
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
12
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas; the most unlike its peers is Henryetta Live 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

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 13 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $22,162,255 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC+2 more: $512,333 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $580,783 · HealthTHE SALVATION ARMY: $500,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SECONDARY ASSOCIATION OF DALLAS INC: $50,000 · OtherHenryetta Public Schools: $30,000 · OtherSouthern Methodist University: $100,000 · EducationLSU FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationLAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $7,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS: $5,500 · Crime & LegalHENRYETTA LIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$22,674,588Health$580,783Other$580,000Education$131,000Crime & Legal$13,000Public Benefit$10,000

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

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way Foundation of Metropolitan Dallas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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 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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