Texas · Nonprofit
DARE TO SERVE
DARE TO SERVE (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,398 to it, the largest being THE JOY BOX FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Dare to Serve does
Mission
Motivating and providing high school age kids opportunities to get involved in meaningful charitable work in their schools and local communities. Helping high school kids to start student led faith based groups in their schools. To organize the start of and maintain food resource closets inside high schools. Providing virtual vocational mentoring for high school students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Student groups in high schools in Fort Worth ISD and Dallas ISD. Food for lunch and breakfast.
$2,482 spent11% of program spendingThirteenth Annual Double Oak Turkey Trot benefiting Dare To Serve and its work in DFW high schools. 5K and one mile Fun Run
$18,781 spent87% of program spendingStarting Care Cabinets in schools and stocking with supplies.
$324 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,587.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $44k to $21k (−52%).
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 DARE TO SERVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jeff Mains
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $5k → $1k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DARE TO SERVE’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
DARE TO SERVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 DARE TO SERVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 92% — 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
DARE TO SERVE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323 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
DARE TO SERVE's revenue fell 26% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like DARE TO SERVE
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.
Public support
100%
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 DARE TO SERVE: 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 DARE TO SERVE?
- DARE TO SERVE (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,398 to it, the largest being THE JOY BOX FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DARE TO SERVE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $60,398 in grants to DARE TO SERVE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DARE TO SERVE?
- THE JOY BOX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DARE TO SERVE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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