Texas · Nonprofit
COMMIT2DALLAS
COMMIT2DALLAS (Texas) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,286,622 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($38,800,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $115M
- Net assets
- $46M
What Commit2dallas does
Mission
Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher education, institutions, city, county, and state governments, foundations, non-profits, employers, and workforce agencies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Commits postsecondary access and success work is dedicated to creating pathways for students to access postsecondary opportunities and supporting them in earning credentials, thereby doubling their likelihood of attaining a living wage.
$9,870,208 spentof which $2,320,213 as grants36% of program spendingThe purpose of Commits Statewide programming is to advance the development and implementation of student-centered, data-informed policy that drives specific outcomes and behavior change within school systems statewide, serving over 5 million public school students. Commit convenes partners across the state to align on collective student-outcome goals and programmatic approaches to accelerate academic achievement.
$9,857,336 spentof which $5,467,054 as grants$2,043,285 earned by the program36% of program spendingCommit's PreK-12 initiatives focus on ensuring every student from Pre-kindergarten to 12th grade has access to rigourous, effective instruction and is empowered by highly effective professionals at the classroom, campus, and public school system leadership level.
$7,619,820 spentof which $1,509,614 as grants28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,347,364.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $41M to $60M (+46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 15% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 12% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of COMMIT2DALLAS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Todd Williams
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $24M.
8 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $12M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COMMIT2DALLAS raised.
From the IRS filings of COMMIT2DALLAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COMMIT2DALLAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COMMIT2DALLAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 35% · 2019 45% · 2020 41% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
59% of COMMIT2DALLAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
COMMIT2DALLAS draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COMMIT2DALLAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMIT2DALLAS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMIT2DALLAS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS?
- COMMIT2DALLAS (Texas) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,286,622 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($38,800,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMIT2DALLAS have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $115,286,622 in grants to COMMIT2DALLAS, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMIT2DALLAS?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $38,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMIT2DALLAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 51 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing