The Dallas Foundation awards nearly $2.7 million in 97 summer grants, most of it for family economic stability
Sixty-nine of the grants, $1,782,000 in all, go to food, housing, education and job training programs for Greater Dallas families. The rest pay for health care, parks and mental health work.
Dallas. The Dallas Foundation said on Oct. 5 that it has awarded 97 grants totaling $2,686,500 to nonprofits serving Greater Dallas in its 2026 Summer Grant Cycle. Most of the money, $1,782,000 in 69 grants, went to what the foundation calls family economic stability: food access, housing, education, workforce training and other services that help families build stability.
The Dallas Foundation's 2026 summer grants by focus area
The other three areas were smaller. Healthcare access received 17 grants totaling $495,500 for medical, dental, vision and other care for children, families and older adults who face barriers to care. Parks and recreation received eight grants totaling $237,000 for parks, trails, recreational spaces and public green spaces, and mental and emotional health received three grants totaling $172,000.
Who received grants
The foundation published the full list of recipients with its announcement. Among them in family economic stability are North Texas Food Bank, Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity and Catch Up & Read; in healthcare access, The Agape Clinic; and in parks and recreation, Texas Trees Foundation and Fair Park First. The three mental and emotional health grants went to The Magdalen House, the Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology and Youth 180. The list also includes groups working in Collin County, north of Dallas.
“Behind these grants are neighbors working toward greater stability and nonprofits helping make that possible.”
How the grants are chosen
The money comes from funds that donors set up at the foundation for causes they care about. Those funds leave it to the foundation to find and vet the nonprofits best placed to meet those needs, and grant decisions follow a review by staff and approval by its Board of Governors. The announcement does not say when the next cycle opens.
The foundation, which calls itself the first community foundation in Texas, announced its 2026 Spring Grants Cycle on April 1: $992,200 to 41 nonprofits in Dallas County, for animal welfare, specialized health and disability services, arts and culture, and domestic violence support. Dallas Innovates, which reported the summer grants on Oct. 8, wrote that the summer round is larger than the foundation's 2025 summer cycle, $2.5 million in 80 grants, and that the foundation has awarded more than $1.2 billion since it was founded in 1929.
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