The Michael L Rosenberg Foundation concentrates its philanthropy on major Dallas cultural institutions, providing substantial general operating support to flagship arts organizations. Its giving is focused and local, with repeated, sizable awards to the city’s leading performing and visual arts organizations.
Highly concentrated, sizable gifts to a small number of repeat grantees; multiple grants to the same organizations suggesting multi-year or continuing general support rather than one-off project funding.
The Michael L Rosenberg Foundation’s recent giving is marked by repeated, substantial general-support grants to two Dallas cultural anchors: the Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Both institutions appear multiple times in the grant list, with awards at $80,000, $100,000, and $105,000, showing a consistent pattern of multi-year support rather than one-off project funding. The foundation’s philanthropy is tightly centered on Dallas arts institutions, especially organizations that serve broad public audiences through exhibitions, curation, and performing arts programming. That local focus extends beyond the largest awards. In 2023, the foundation also backed The Dallas Foundation- Joaquin Achucarro Foundation Fund for general support for performing arts, pointing to interest in sustaining the city’s arts infrastructure through both direct institutional grants and affiliated support vehicles. Across the recent grants list, every recipient is in Texas and every grant goes to an arts and cultural organization, making the foundation’s identity unusually clear: a Dallas-based funder of major cultural institutions with a strong preference for unrestricted operating support.
The foundation supports Dallas performing arts organizations through general operating grants. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra received $105,000 in 2025 and $100,000 in 2023 for general support for performing arts, along with an $80,000 award in 2024. That repeated support suggests a durable relationship with a flagship music institution. It also funds public art museums. The Dallas Museum of Art received $105,000 in 2025, $100,000 in 2023, and $80,000 in 2024, all described as general support for the public art museum. Those grants place museum operations at the center of the foundation’s arts giving. A smaller 2023 grant to The Dallas Foundation- Joaquin Achucarro Foundation Fund for general support for performing arts shows that the foundation also supports arts-related funds linked to Dallas institutions.
The recent grant sizes cluster tightly around major operating awards: p25 is $80,000, median is $100,000, and p75 is $102,500. That pattern fits a funder that gives at a fairly consistent scale rather than through small exploratory grants. The same two institutions recur across 2023, 2024, and 2025, indicating repeated support over multiple years. The foundation is structured as a private foundation, not an individual-giving vehicle, and it does not make program-related investments. The grant list also points to direct grantmaking without an application signal in the available data.
$571K
$3.4M
$186K
$251K
Most grants fall between $80K and $103K, with a median of $100K.
25th Percentile
$80K
Median
$100K
75th Percentile
$103K
About 100% of grants go to recipients in TX.
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Notable grantees: Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Museum of Art, Major Dallas cultural institutions (collective representative of other local arts beneficiaries)
Giving is entirely local in the available grant list: 100% of grants go to recipients in Texas, and Texas is the top state by grant count. The recipient city is consistently Dallas. Across the recent grants, awards land at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and The Dallas Foundation- Joaquin Achucarro Foundation Fund, all in Dallas, TX. No non-U.S. recipient countries appear in the grant list.
It supports Dallas arts and cultural institutions, especially a public art museum and a performing arts organization. Recent grants went to the Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with purposes described as general support for the museum and for performing arts.
The grant-size distribution is tightly grouped: the 25th percentile is $80,000, the median is $100,000, and the 75th percentile is $102,500. Recent awards also include two grants of $105,000, which sit just above that range.
In the recent grants list, no. Every grant goes to a Texas recipient, and the recipient country distribution is 100% U.S. The recurring city in the data is Dallas, TX.
Yes. The Dallas Museum of Art appears in 2023, 2024, and 2025, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra also appears in those same three years. That shows repeated support across multiple grant cycles.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | DALLAS, TX | $105,000 | 2025 | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PERFORMING ARTS |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | DALLAS, TX | $105,000 | 2025 | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR THE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM |
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | DALLAS, TX | $80,000 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PERFORMING ARTS |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | DALLAS, TX | $80,000 | 2024 | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR THE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | DALLAS, TX | $100,000 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR THE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM |
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | DALLAS, TX | $100,000 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PERFORMING ARTS |
| THE DALLAS FOUNDATION- JOAQUIN ACHUCARRO FOUNDATION FUND | DALLAS, TX | $1,000 | 2023 | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PERFORMING ARTS |
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
$105,000GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PERFORMING ARTS
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
$105,000GENERAL SUPPORT FOR THE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
$80,000GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PERFORMING ARTS
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
$80,000GENERAL SUPPORT FOR THE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
$100,000GENERAL SUPPORT FOR THE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
$100,000GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PERFORMING ARTS
THE DALLAS FOUNDATION- JOAQUIN ACHUCARRO FOUNDATION FUND
$1,000GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PERFORMING ARTS