Texas · Nonprofit
Dallas Society of Visual Communications Foundation
Dallas Society of Visual Communications Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,180 to it, the largest being North Texas Charitable Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $151k
What Dallas Society of Visual Communications Foundation does
Mission
To provide scholarships for high-school and college students pursuing a career in the visual communications profession.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Annual National Student Show and Conference - Brings students from all over the nation together for a competition of visual communications and a 3 day conference. Our goal is to educate and inspire the future of the creative industry and reward the best work through scholarships and awards. There were 456 submissions and 156 conference tickets. Through the conference we hope to attract the best visual communicators to Dallas after graduation and help grow the membership of the organization over time. The cost of conference tickets is $280, and the cost for entries is $37.
$59,853 spent$77,714 earned by the program86% of program spendingGolf Tournament - The 2024 Golf Tournament was held in May 2024. Ticket sales: Golden Tee Sponsors $201 - 1 purchased, Golden Tee Foursomes $701 - 4 purchased, Foursomes $601 - 6 purchased, Individual Golfer $150 - 1 purchased, Bonus Mulligans & Raffel packages for $41 - 19 purchased, 6 raffle ticket packs for $25 - 13 purchased.
$9,964 spent$11,908 earned by the program14% of program spendingFall Classic & Bike Event - Presented by Clampitt Paper in November 2023, it was not held in 2024.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $69,817.
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 2023 to 2024, from $124k to $151k (+22%).
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.
4% of Dallas Society of Visual Communications Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $32 → $37.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Society of Visual Communications Foundation’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 Society of Visual Communications Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Society of Visual Communications Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Society of Visual Communications Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Dallas Society of Visual Communications 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 Society of Visual Communications Foundation: 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 Society of Visual Communications Foundation?
- Dallas Society of Visual Communications Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,180 to it, the largest being North Texas Charitable Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dallas Society of Visual Communications Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,180 in grants to Dallas Society of Visual Communications Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dallas Society of Visual Communications Foundation?
- North Texas Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dallas Society of Visual Communications 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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