Dallas Safety Net Support

About Dallas Safety Net Support

Dallas Safety Net Support Corporation’s largest recent grants are community benefit contribution assistance payments to major Dallas-area hospital systems. In 2025, Baylor Scott & White Health received $81,012,579, and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas received $16,843,805, both for community benefit contribution assistance. That pattern is consistent across the foundation’s recent filings: the grants are directed mainly to hospitals, surgical centers, rehabilitation providers, and behavioral health facilities rather than to small community groups. The funder’s work is tightly tied to mission-driven patient care in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, with repeated support for established health systems that operate as community-serving institutions. Recent examples include Methodist Health System, Hca Healthcare, North Central Surgical Center LLP, and Children’s Health System of Texas. The grant list also shows that the same health systems can appear multiple times across years, which suggests an ongoing relationship-based approach to funding community benefit obligations. Across the file, the foundation’s giving is large in scale and highly institutional, with nearly all activity centered on Texas health care providers.

What Dallas Safety Net Support Funds

The clearest thread in the grant list is support for major hospital system community benefit obligations. Baylor Scott & White Health, Methodist Health System, and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas each received large community benefit contribution assistance awards tied to that purpose. The foundation also backs surgical and specialty hospital operations, including Methodist Hospital for Surgery, Texas Regional Medical Center, Baylor Surgical Hospital at Las Colinas, and North Central Surgical Center LLP. In post-acute care, Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation and similar rehabilitation providers fit the same pattern of health-system support. Pediatric and behavioral health appear as additional strands: Children’s Health System of Texas received funding, and the recent grants also include behavioral health inpatient services in the Dallas region. The recurring purpose text across these awards points to restricted support for community-serving medical operations rather than broad unrestricted philanthropy.

How Dallas Safety Net Support Gives