Capital for Kids
Dallas, TX · EIN 20-4403950. Reported 184 grants totalling $4,625,706 to 70 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Capital for Kids, by its IRS classification it provides support services within youth development (NTEE O19).
- How spread out its giving is. 70 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 76% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $22,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $95,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S M Wright Foundation | Farmers Brnch, TX | $288,272 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dallas Childrens Advocacy Center | Dallas, TX | $233,047 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| West Dallas Community School | Dallas, TX | $197,498 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Behind Every Door Ministries Inc | Dallas, TX | $156,517 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kid Net Foundation | Dallas, TX | $145,172 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Vogel Alcove | Dallas, TX | $139,892 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Child Protective Services Community Partners Inc | Dallas, TX | $135,422 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Promise House Inc | Dallas, TX | $131,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rivertree Academy Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $126,497 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Service of Dallas Incorporated | Dallas, TX | $125,607 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Catch Up & Read Inc | Dallas, TX | $123,610 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hope Farm | Ft Worth, TX | $122,422 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cristo Rey Dallas High School Inc | Dallas, TX | $121,797 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alliance for Children Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $111,422 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dallas CASA | Dallas, TX | $110,797 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jubilee Park & Community Center Corporation | Dallas, TX | $103,235 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Austin Street Center | Dallas, TX | $101,907 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mercy Street Inc | Dallas, TX | $99,111 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Place Inc | Dallas, TX | $95,142 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Womens Preparatory Network | Dallas, TX | $90,422 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rainbow Days Inc | Dallas, TX | $90,327 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childcaregroup | Dallas, TX | $85,422 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Friends New Life | Dallas, TX | $78,422 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dallas Mission for Life Inc | Dallas, TX | $75,142 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mi Escuelita Preschool Inc | Dallas, TX | $75,142 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Compass | Dallas, TX | $74,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Collin County Inc | Plano, TX | $72,797 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hope Supply Co | Dallas, TX | $66,814 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Readers 2 Leaders | Dallas, TX | $64,142 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| CASA of Tarrant County Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $62,142 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City House Inc | Plano, TX | $60,235 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for Transforming Lives | Fort Worth, TX | $54,922 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth Believing in Change Inc | Dallas, TX | $54,142 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cafe Momentum | Dallas, TX | $54,047 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Metrocrest Services | Carrollton, TX | $52,142 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated | Dallas, TX | $50,547 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Philips School and Community Center Foundation | Dallas, TX | $50,327 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| C5 Youth Foundation of Texas Inc | Dallas, TX | $48,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lena Pope Home Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $47,172 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dallas Childrens Theater Inc | Dallas, TX | $43,922 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mommies in Need Inc | Dallas, TX | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Anthony Foundation | Dallas, TX | $37,142 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| TRAFFICK911 | Addison, TX | $37,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Christs Haven for Children | Fort Worth, TX | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Perot Museum of Nature and Science | Dallas, TX | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Interfaith Family Services | Dallas, TX | $32,672 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Project Transformation North Texas | Dallas, TX | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hunger Busters | Dallas, TX | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mosaic Family Services Inc | Dallas, TX | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Reading Partners | Oakland, CA | $27,375 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lift | Dallas, TX | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Heart House | Dallas, TX | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Star Sponsorship Program Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Home Point Services Inc | Dallas, TX | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City Year Inc | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Collin County Inc | Mckinney, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Healthy Futures of Texas | San Antonio, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Dallas Foundation | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United to Learn | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Voice of Hope Ministries | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Frontiers of Flight Museum Inc | Dallas, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Incarnation Place Inc | Dallas, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Texas Academy 4 | Fort Worth, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Every Avenue | Dallas, TX | $11,922 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brighter Tomorrows Inc | Arlington, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Survivors of Torture | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dallas Leadership Foundation | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Methodist Justice Ministry | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vickery Meadow Learning Center | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emilys Place Inc | Plano, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
51 of 70 (73%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 63 of 70 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 48 | $1,272,500 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 49 | $1,246,900 | $21,000 |
| 2023 | 49 | $1,061,306 | $17,547 |
| 2024 | 38 | $1,045,000 | $23,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $22,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Capital for Kids's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2807 Allen Street 816, Dallas, TX, 75204.
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