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Vansickle Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| DALLAS OPERA | $40,000 |
| GREATER DALLAS YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $40,000 |
| MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| AFTER8TOEDUCATE | $30,000 |
| HEROES | $30,000 |
| VOGEL ALCOVE | $25,000 |
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| OURCALLING | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $93k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TDThe Dallas Opera4× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +30%
- MIMomentous Institute2× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +5%
- CMCAFE MOMENTUM2× · 2019–2023 · $18k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +25%
- ICINTERLOCHEN CENTER OF THE ARTSone grant, 2022 · $35k
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INCone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and…
Providing music education primarily to children, but also to some adults and participating in outreach in the North Texas community.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To educate the public in music appreciation and fine arts, including the presentation of musical theater and other shows with educational value.
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.…
Provide financial support to the dallas opera.
Increase community involvement to advance music and art through education events and our TechNotes curriculum, group collaborations, film and instrument competitions, performance jobs, and general public concerts
Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…
The purpose of orpheus chamber singers, inc. is to increase the knowledge and appreciation of choral music in the community, and to provide a professional-level medium of performance for talented singers in the dallas-ft worth metroplex.
Greater Dallas Choral Society provides children and youth an experience in choral artistry in a group that reflects the diversity of the Dallas metroplex.
To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Momentous Institute and the most unlike its peers is Imani Bridges. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds AFTER8TOEDUCATE ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING EVERYONE REACH OUTSTANDING EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds IMANI BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds Avant Chamber Ballet Inc ↗
- Who funds MOMMIES IN NEED ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds KID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vansickle Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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