Texas · Nonprofit
South Dallas Driving Academy
South Dallas Driving Academy (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ($110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
South Dallas Driving Academy runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,061 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- State Fair of Texasshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Child Poverty Action Lablocalportfolio match
- Capital for Kidsshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
97% of South Dallas Driving Academy’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 South Dallas Driving Academy’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
South Dallas Driving Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 South Dallas Driving Academy.
“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
80% of South Dallas Driving Academy's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- State Fair of Texasshared funderslocalportfolio matchTX · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 106 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Child Poverty Action Lablocalportfolio matchTX · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Capital for Kidsshared funderslocalTX · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 organizations near you
- Dallas Regional Chamberportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact San Antonio Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Methodist Hospitals of Dallasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dallas Social Venture Partnersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kahn Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- San Antonio Area Foundation Group Returnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dallas Stars Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Laredo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mike a Myers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like South Dallas Driving Academy
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for South Dallas Driving Academy: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds South Dallas Driving Academy?
- South Dallas Driving Academy (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ($110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does South Dallas Driving Academy have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $245,000 in grants to South Dallas Driving Academy, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of South Dallas Driving Academy?
- COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like South Dallas Driving Academy 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing