Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,608,231 to it, the largest being THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ($5,668,750). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Dallas Leadership Foundation does
Mission
To identify, affirm, and develop leaders to transform communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Dlf youth: dlf youth mentors at-risk youth to be leaders through its power team initiative. Dlf youth also provides in-depth weekly training and development to mentors who work with dlf's youth. Students participating in the power lunch high school program are taught life skills, supported academically, and coached on appropriate behavior. Dlf youth also provides leadership development. Development among multicultural dallas youth is fostered in the weekly power lunch meetings at two area high schools. Dlf youth also provides leadership development and chaplain services for an additional south dallas high school and a literacy program at a south dallas elementary school. In the years ended december 31, 2024 and 2023, the total number of students dlf youth served through all its programs was 1,585 and 1,032, respectively.
$442,394 spent17% of program spendingDlf neighborhoods: dlf's approach to community revitalization includes a heavy focus on improving the quality of life in the 13 targeted dallas neighborhoods. Initially, dlf neighborhoods works to identify existing leadership in each neighborhood. This often comes in the form of a neighborhood association or by individuals connecting directly with dlf. Once a more formal relationship begins, dlf begins to assess the community's needs with local leaders through dlf's own neighborhood vitality index. The vitality index is a data collection tool used to determine a neighborhood's sustainability and quality of life of the residents. At this point, dlf and the community leaders work together to develop a strategic plan that includes physical improvement and community relations strategies to create thriving, safe neighborhoods. Dlf neighborhoods' programs provide neighborhood improvement services such as leadership training, home improvement, and connection to employment and health services. In response to the covid-19 pandemic, dlf also began providing food boxes, rental assistance, utility assistance, and technology assistance. Dlf expects to continue these critical support programs…
$1,279,328 spent$14,570 earned by the program50% of program spendingDlf reentry: dlf reentry advocates on behalf of currently and previously incarcerated men returning to society, in collaboration with churches, nonprofits, and agencies. Individuals leaving prison are mentored in christian principles and provided compassionate assistance with weekly fellowship, obtaining housing, clothing purchases, documentation, employment, and transportation. Bus passes are offered as support to assist men with transportation. Dlf also engages men through its in-prison faith-based program housed in a 232 bed building at hutchins state jail. The program provides 30 hours of training each week in the areas of fatherhood, spiritual development, financial literacy, and workforce development to name a few. Reentry also provides a workforce transition house which provides nine months of support. During this time, we help previously incarcerated men to successfully integrate back into society. In the years ended december 31, 2024 and 2023, the number of people dlf reentry served was 1,348 and 1,171, respectively. The reduction in number of men served was due to extended lockdown in hutchins state jail.
$532,900 spent$23,016 earned by the program21% of program spendingTreasures of hope: treasures of hope is an annual christmas store held for families in need. Dlf serves over 20 churches, community and faith-based organizations that refer individuals to shop with dignity for merchandise at 75% off the retail value. In the years ended december 31, 2024 and 2023, the number of people dlf served through its treasures of hope christmas store was 703 and 366, respectively. Transform dallas: dlf partners with multiple local churches to put on transform dallas in which hundreds of volunteers are recruited to serve in various community projects such as house paintings, landscaping, neighborhood clean-up, crime and safety items, community-building block parties, and much more. In the years ended december 31, 2024 and 2023, dlf served 1,105 and 1,425 people, respectively, expanding service opportunities from an annual one-day event to multiple days of service. Dlf works: dlf-works is an integrated workforce development program that teaches hard to reach marginalized individuals skills to earn a living wage. Program participants receive life-skills training, hands-on workplace training, and job placement services that help participants become stable,…
$327,709 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,582,331.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.6M to $12M (+109%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 15% · 2021 26% · 2022 10% · 2023 10% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $344k → $3.1M.
11 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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 LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 34% · 2019 44% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 18% · 2023 58% — 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
53% of DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
51% of DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6.7M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,608,231 to it, the largest being THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ($5,668,750). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $13,608,231 in grants to DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- THE DALLAS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,668,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION 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 63 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