Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY
DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY (Texas) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,719,206 to it, the largest being THEODORE AND BEULAH BEASLEY FOUNDATION INC ($425,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $258k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Dallas County Heritage Society does
Mission
The mission of old city park conservancy is to advocate for and provide support to old city park so that visitors can connect with the past, inspire the future, and celebrate dallass rich diversity in dallass first and oldest public park.with our contract to manage the park having ended in may 2024, we added conservancy to our operating name, indicating our intention to continue to support the park. The park and recreation department, which now operates the park, has undertaken to create a new master plan for the park. Once the new plan is approved, we will evaluate how we can best support that plan. In the meantime, we are working with park staff to support the events and programming they are developing for the park and to support the beautification of the park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
When our contract to manage the park ended in May 2024, we discontinued all of the programming we had previously provided. Our role is now that of a friends organization for the park.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The organization continued its longstanding role of supporting stewardship of the park by hosting volunteer clean-up and gardening activities on the first Saturday of most months. In addition, the organization intends to fund future park improvement projects.
$202,092 spentof which $190,509 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $202,092.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $3.9M (+101%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 21% · 2019 8% · 2020 16% · 2021 50% · 2022 3% · 2023 38% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Michael Meadows-Thru 1024
Interim CEO
Board chair
Dustin Bullard
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $36k → $153k.
5 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $5k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY raised.
From the IRS filings of DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 24% · 2019 41% · 2020 29% · 2021 33% · 2022 57% · 2023 67% — 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
40% of DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
99% of DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $273k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY?
- DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY (Texas) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,719,206 to it, the largest being THEODORE AND BEULAH BEASLEY FOUNDATION INC ($425,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,719,206 in grants to DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY?
- THEODORE AND BEULAH BEASLEY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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