Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER
DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,754,859 to it, the largest being DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ($692,047). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center does
Mission
The Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center's mission is to promote housing justice and stability by ensuring the protection of tenant's rights through the provision of passionate and committed lawyers at no cost to the tenant.(continued on schedule o)deac has changed drastically since its grassroots inception in march 2020. Historically, in the united states, tenants who attend their eviction hearings without an attorney have a 3% chance of winning their case, regardless of the information they present. By providing pro bono legal defense for tenants facing eviction, we have been able to assist our local neighbors in remaining housed, with a success rate of 67.8%. That means our most vulnerable neighbors in our local community are allowed to remain in their homes, tax our local infrastructure and financial systems less, and get back on their feet faster to continue to maintain self-sufficiency on their own and for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Since our inception in 2020, we have touched nearly 30,000 individuals in need, ranging from phone advice, referrals, to actual legal assistance all the way through an appeal process for their eviction. The majority of our clients are single mothers of color. In 2023-2024, 4,256 individual clients were served through deac's endeavors. Of those 4,256: 26 were asian/pacific islander (0.60%); 2,835 were black/african american (66.60%); 570 were hispanic (13.4%); 140 were two or more races (3.30%); 9 were native american (0.20%); 421 were white (9.90%); and 255 were unknown/declined to answer (6%). Of those 4,256, 66.8% were female, 32% were male, 1% declined to state, and 0.2% were non-binary/transgender.(continued on schedule o)of the 4,256 served: 81 were between the ages of 19-21 years old (1.90%), 2,745 were between the ages of 22-44 years old (64.50%), 1,060 were between the ages of 45-59 years old (24.9%), 192 were between 60-64 years old (4.5%), 166 were over 65 years of age (3.90%), and 12 declined to answer. Of the 4,256 served, 14% identified as being disabled, and nearly 5% were not citizens of the united states of america.
$1,134,348 spentof which $45,973 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,134,348.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $64k to $1.1M (+1563%).
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.
100% of DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
William Holston
CEO
Board chair
Mark Melton
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $167k → $988k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% 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 EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 25% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $616k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER?
- DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,754,859 to it, the largest being DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ($692,047). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,754,859 in grants to DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER?
- DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS is the largest funder on record, with $692,047 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS EVICTION ADVOCACY CENTER 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 26 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