Texas · Nonprofit
DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE
DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,096,803 to it, the largest being EDWARD & WILHELMINA ACKERMAN FOUNDATION ($260,858). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $555k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $176k
What Dallas Urban Debate Alliance does
Mission
The Dallas Urban Debate Alliance is committed to providing dallas isd students with the transformational skills found in academic debate. From critical thinking, advanced research techniques, argument formulation, refutation, and questioning strategies, to finely honed listening and oral presentation skills, we believe that debate provides students the opportunity to become informed leaders in their schools and communities and to make a difference in their ability to advocate for themselves and others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through a partnership with the dallas independent school district, duda programs include workshops, scrimmages, tournaments, and mentorships for 23 students. Through debate, students learn to think critically, conduct research and gain confidence in public speaking.
$254,783 spentof which $39,647 as grants$18,975 earned by the program90% of program spendingProviding advocacy and evaluation to dallas isd students. Provided a one-week summer residential institute/camp for 60 dallas isd students housed on a college campus.
$3,594 spent1% of program spendingTraining seminars for dallas isd students. Served over 500 middle school students while teaching them to critically think, communicate, and research. Worked with over 500 high school students helping them refine their 21st century schools in preparation for their postsecondary careers.
$23,864 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $282,241.
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 2024 to 2025, from $28k to $179k (+540%).
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.
96% of DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Alex More
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $82k → $83k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE’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 URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
48% 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 URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 24% · 2019 19% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 39% · 2023 44% — 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
25% of DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
81% of DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k 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 URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE?
- DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,096,803 to it, the largest being EDWARD & WILHELMINA ACKERMAN FOUNDATION ($260,858). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,096,803 in grants to DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE?
- EDWARD & WILHELMINA ACKERMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,858 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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