Dedman Foundation

Analysis

Dedman Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a private non-operating foundation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Dedman Foundation reported income of $1.2m and spending of $535k, leaving 55% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.4m to $1.2m (-14%), an average of -3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 146%. Over the whole period it spent 125% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Dedman Foundation sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 85th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tri-County Foundation ($1.2m), Love Your Neighbor Projects Inc ($1.2m) and Brookdale Community College Foundation Trust ($1.2m).

At year end it held assets of $44.5m against liabilities of $5.9m, net assets of $38.6m.