Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS CONTEMPORARY
DALLAS CONTEMPORARY (Texas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,044,774 to it, the largest being Dallas Art Fair Foundation ($227,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Dallas Contemporary does
Mission
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 international artists. The institution is committed to engaging the public through exhibitions, lectures, educational programs and events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Events and exhibitions: see schedule oevents and exhibitions: a non-collecting kunsthalle-style art space, Dallas Contemporary presents the forefront of contemporary artistic practice and production through exhibitions, performances, and public programs that advance the discovery and appreciation of art of this moment. In 2024, Dallas Contemporary welcomed 16,058 visitors through four major exhibitions: who's afraid of cartoony figuration?, a group exhibition exploring the playful and subversive possibilities of figuration; patrick martinez: histories, featuring new work examining urban landscapes and social memory; chivas clem: shirttail kin, a deeply personal installation reflecting on family, heritage, and the american south; and brian fridge: view finder, part of in the path of totality, a series of seven commissions supported by the simons foundation. The museum also hosted the second annual dallas art book fair, which brought together over 1,600 visitors for a weekend celebrating independent publishing and artist books.
$1,099,752 spent$67,036 earned by the program96% of program spendingEducation and membership: Dallas Contemporary's education and membership initiatives provide opportunities for the community to learn about and experience the world of contemporary art firsthand. There are multiple levels of membership and a wide variety of educational activities to choose from. Members are provided with exclusive opportunities such as access to attend exhibition previews, visits with local and international artists, and social events hosted by dc. The education offerings include school and public tours, talks with artists and authors, and writing and drawing sessions hosted by local artists.
$43,930 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,143,682.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $4.6M to $3.6M (−23%).
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 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of DALLAS CONTEMPORARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Carolina Alvarez-Mathies
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $65k → $273k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $24k from 2 payers (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DALLAS CONTEMPORARY raised.
From the IRS filings of DALLAS CONTEMPORARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
DALLAS CONTEMPORARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
41% 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 DALLAS CONTEMPORARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 25% · 2019 32% · 2020 48% · 2021 26% · 2022 18% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of DALLAS CONTEMPORARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
70% of DALLAS CONTEMPORARY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $510k 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
DALLAS CONTEMPORARY's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding DALLAS CONTEMPORARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DALLAS CONTEMPORARY
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 DALLAS CONTEMPORARY: 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 DALLAS CONTEMPORARY?
- DALLAS CONTEMPORARY (Texas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,044,774 to it, the largest being Dallas Art Fair Foundation ($227,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DALLAS CONTEMPORARY have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,044,774 in grants to DALLAS CONTEMPORARY, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS CONTEMPORARY?
- Dallas Art Fair Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $227,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS CONTEMPORARY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing