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Dallas Stars Foundation Inc

Frisco, TX · EIN 75-2780401. Reported 78 grants totalling $3,527,944 to 62 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

62organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$3,527,944granted, 2020-2023
39%of grantees funded again the next year
40%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Dallas Stars Foundation Inc, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for education (NTEE B12).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 62 distinct organizations, with 40% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 39% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,281 and $35,541; the smallest was $5,139 and the largest $400,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
21 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
29 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
7 grants
$250,000 Or More
3 grants

32 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $897,917 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
St Philips School & Community CenterDallas, TX$1,407,500542023
Pro Players Foundation IncSouthlake, TX$805,808642023
Grant Halliburton Foundation IncDallas, TX$200,000222023
Wilkinson CenterDallas, TX$100,000112021
Childrens Medical Center FoundationDallas, TX$60,000222023
Communities Foundation of TexasDallas, TX$58,879212022
Dallas Stars Alumni AssociationDallas, TX$53,924222023
The Salvation ArmyArlington, TX$50,000112020
Salood IncRichardson, TX$47,000112023
Pride FriscoFrisco, TX$41,332222023
Dallas County Mental Health & Mental Retardation CenterDallas, TX$39,000112023
Americas Vetdogs the Veterans K9 Corps IncSmithtown, NY$36,025112022
Mammogram Poster Girls IncDallas, TX$35,541112022
Dallas Education FoundationDallas, TX$35,000112023
Dallas Foundation Dallas WarriorsDallas, TX$32,358112021
Dallas Stars Elite Hockey ClubIrving, TX$30,919112021
American Cancer SocietyDallas, TX$26,041112021
Breakthrough T1DNew York, NY$25,000222023
Young Women's Preparatory NetworkDallas, TX$25,000112023
Pros for a Purpose IncPlano, TX$20,000222023
Team RubiconLos Angeles, CA$20,000112023
Black Tie Dinner IncDallas, TX$15,000112023
Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity IncDallas, TX$15,000112022
University of Nebraska FoundationLincoln, NE$15,000112023
Bachman Lake TogetherDallas, TX$14,872112022
Dallas Hope CharitiesDallas, TX$13,332112022
Black Sports Professionals - North TexasDallas, TX$10,000112022
Blair FoundationDallas, TX$10,000112023
Blair FoundationCarrollton, TX$10,000112021
Camp Summit IncDallas, TX$10,000112021
Denton County Friends of the Family IncDenton, TX$10,000112023
Down Syndrome Guild of DallasRichardson, TX$10,000112023
Heroes for ChildrenPlano, TX$10,000112023
Home Point Services IncDallas, TX$10,000112023
Irving Cares IncIrving, TX$10,000112023
Jacob Way OrganizationArlington, TX$10,000112023
Johnny Mac Soldiers Fund IncAshburn, VA$10,000112023
Meals on Wheels Collin CountyMckinney, TX$10,000112023
Neuro Assistance FoundationDallas, TX$10,000112023
Parrish Charitable FoundationDallas, TX$10,000112022
Perot Museum of Nature and ScienceDallas, TX$10,000112023
Rise Adventures IncIrving, TX$10,000112023
Leukemia TexasDallas, TX$9,536112021
Texas Womens FoundationDallas, TX$9,281112022
American Cancer Society IncAtlanta, GA$9,250112022
Scholastic Book FairLake Mary, FL$9,000112023
Southern Sector RisingDallas, TX$8,618112022
Wesley Rankin Commuity CenterDallas, TX$8,208112021
Our Father's ChildrenNorth Richland Hills, TX$8,159112021
White Rock United Methodist ChurchDallas, TX$7,880112021
Heart to Heart CateringFarmers Branch, TX$7,800112023
Dallas Life MissionDallas, TX$7,524112021
No One Greater FoundationFrisco, TX$7,200112021
Nhl EnterprisesNew York, NY$7,000112023
C5 Youth Foundation of TexasDallas, TX$6,800112021
GenaustinAustin, TX$6,700112021
PediplaceLewisville, TX$5,805112021
Housing Crisis CenterDallas, TX$5,481112021
Dallas Furniture BankCarrollton, TX$5,423112021
Nexus Recovery CenterDallas, TX$5,409112021
Irving CaresIrving, TX$5,200112021
Heroes for ChildrenPlano, TX$5,139112021

8 of 62 (13%) 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.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 62 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.

Human Services
7 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
5 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Health Care
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20204$629,703$89,851
202123$988,676$8,159
202219$1,011,648$14,872
202332$897,917$10,000

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

96% 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.

Texas
$3.4M
New York
$68K
California
$20K
Nebraska
$15K
Virginia
$10K
Georgia
$9K
Florida
$9K

Down to the city

Dallas, TX
$2.3M
Southlake, TX
$806K
Arlington, TX
$60K
Richardson, TX
$57K
Irving, TX
$56K
Frisco, TX
$49K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Communities Foundation of Texas Inc21 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsThe Dallas Foundation18 shared recipientsTexas Instruments Foundation18 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
  4. 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 Dallas Stars Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 36 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 2601 Avenue of the Stars, Frisco, TX, 75034.

EIN 75-2780401 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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