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Taca Inc

Dallas, TX · EIN 75-6061186. Reported 159 grants totalling $2,622,750 to 73 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

73organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$2,622,750granted, 2021-2023
78%of grantees funded again the next year
6%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 Taca Inc, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A60J) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 73 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 78% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $21,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $79,500. 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
49 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
92 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
14 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants

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
Cara Mia Theatre CoDallas, TX$144,500432023
Nasher Sculpture CenterDallas, TX$137,500332023
Verdigris Ensemble IncDallas, TX$98,000332023
Dallas Black Dance TheatreDallas, TX$96,000332023
Dallas Childrens Theater IncDallas, TX$90,500332023
Soul Rep Theatre CompanyDallas, TX$79,500332023
Bruce Wood Dance Co IncDallas, TX$78,000332023
Dallas Symphony Association IncDallas, TX$72,500332023
Dallas OperaDallas, TX$65,000332023
Dallas Theater CenterDallas, TX$65,000332023
Dallas Museum of ArtDallas, TX$61,750332023
Theatre Three IncorporatedDallas, TX$59,500332023
Turtle Creek Chorale IncDallas, TX$58,000332023
Texas International Theatrical Arts SocietyDallas, TX$57,000332023
Junior Players GuildDallas, TX$56,500332023
Teco Theatrical Productions IncDallas, TX$56,500222023
Echo TheatreDallas, TX$55,000332023
Pegasus Contemporary BalletDallas, TX$55,000422023
Undermain TheatreDallas, TX$50,500332023
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation IncDallas, TX$47,000432023
Greater Dallas Youth OrchestraDallas, TX$47,000332023
Uptown Players IncDallas, TX$47,000332023
Kitchen Dog Theater CompanyDallas, TX$45,500332023
Sammons Center for the ArtsDallas, TX$45,500332023
Teatro Hispano De DallasDallas, TX$44,000332023
Prism Movement TheaterDallas, TX$43,000332023
Texas Winds Musical Outreach IncDallas, TX$43,000332023
Dallas ContemporaryDallas, TX$41,000332023
Texas Ballet Theater IncFort Worth, TX$40,000332023
Arts Mission Oak CliffDallas, TX$38,500222023
Dallas Chamber SymphonyDallas, TX$38,000222023
ArtstilleryDallas, TX$33,000222022
American Baroque Opera CompanyDallas, TX$30,000222022
Fine Arts Chamber PlayersDallas, TX$30,000332023
Writers GarretDallas, TX$29,000222023
Watertower Theatre IncAddison, TX$28,000222023
Plano Symphony Orchestra Non-Profit CorpPlano, TX$27,000222022
Broadway Dallas IncDallas, TX$25,000222022
Lumedia Musicworks IncDallas, TX$25,000332023
Deep Vellum PublishingDallas, TX$24,000222023
Second Thought TheatreDallas, TX$22,500222023
Dallas Wind SymphonyDallas, TX$21,500222023
The Cedars UnionDallas, TX$21,500222023
Dont Ask WhyDesoto, TX$20,500222023
Cry Havoc Theater CoDallas, TX$20,000112021
Fractured Atlas IncNew York, NY$19,500222023
Premier Lone Star Wind OrchestraDallas, TX$19,500222022
Shakespeare Festival of DallasDallas, TX$19,000222023
Pegasus Musical SocietyDallas, TX$18,500222023
Avant Chamber BalletDallas, TX$16,500112023
Bishop Arts Theatre CenterDallas, TX$16,500112021
Emerge Coalition IncDallas, TX$16,000222023
Womens Chorus of DallasDallas, TX$14,500222022
Knowbox DanceDallas, TX$14,000222023
Orpheus Chamber Singers IncDallas, TX$13,500112023
Sweet Pass Sculpture ParkDallas, TX$13,500222023
Dallas Center for PhotographyDallas, TX$12,500222022
Bmoore DanceDallas, TX$10,500112021
Blue Candlelight Music SeriesDallas, TX$8,500112021
Make Art With Purpose IncorporatedDallas, TX$8,000112022
Irving Symphony AssociationIrving, TX$7,500112023
Lyric Stage IncDallas, TX$7,500112022
Philanthropy KidsDallas, TX$7,500112023
The Dash EnsembleDallas, TX$7,500112023
Bombshell Dance ProjectDallas, TX$7,000112023
Chamber Music International IncDallas, TX$7,000112023
Imprint TheatreworksDallas, TX$7,000112021
New Texas Symphony OrchestraDallas, TX$7,000112023
Outloud DallasDallas, TX$7,000112023
Childrens Chorus of DallasDallas, TX$6,500112021
Creative Arts Center of DallasDallas, TX$6,000112021
Latino Arts ProjectDallas, TX$6,000112022
The Classics Theatre ProjectDallas, TX$6,000112022

53 of 73 (73%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 58 of 73 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.

Arts & Culture
54 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Human Services
1 org
Education
1 org
Youth Development
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202148$685,000$13,500
202255$965,250$15,500
202356$972,500$15,000

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.

Texas
$2.6M
New York
$20K

Down to the city

Dallas, TX
$2.5M
Fort Worth, TX
$40K
Addison, TX
$28K
Plano, TX
$27K
Desoto, TX
$20K
New York, NY
$20K

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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 Inc60 shared recipientsDallas Center for the Performing Arts43 shared recipientsTexas Instruments Foundation42 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund30 shared recipientsFichtenbaum Charitable Trust24 shared recipientsThe Dallas Foundation21 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 $15,000 -- 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 Taca Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 56 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: 1722 Routh Street 800, Dallas, TX, 75201.

EIN 75-6061186 · 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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