Venture Dallas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842752867
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Dallas, TX, US
- Phone
- 9723228869
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $586,085
- Expenses
- $403,332
- Assets
- $484,631
- Liabilities
- $1,871
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN AARON PIERCE (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JOHN AARON PIERCE (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- BRYAN CHAMBERS (DIRECTOR)
- LOUISA MCCARTY MILLER (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Venture Dallas exists to amplify the entrepreneurial spirit of Dallas by connecting innovators with investors, celebrating our pioneering roots, and driving impactful growth for a thriving business community.
What it reported doing in 2025
The 2025 venture dallas annual conference, held on october 30, brought together a highly engaged audience of 478 attendees (542 registered) for a full day of programming, networking, and investor-founder connectivity. The agenda featured more than a dozen speaker sessions throughout the day, including keynote presentations, panel discussions, fireside chats, and the startup of the year awards. Sessions covered topics ranging from venture capital market trends and capital markets innovation to artificial intelligence, robotics, life sciences, and consumer brand disruption. The speaker lineup included nationally recognized investors, founders, and business leaders such as j. Aaron pierce (perot jain), elaine agather (j.p. Morgan), bobby franklin (nvca), jeb hensarling (Texas stock exchange), ross perot jr. (the perot companies), drew mcknight (fortress), jeff cardenas (apptronik), reed jobs (yosemite venture fund), john carmack (keen technologies), ben lamm (colossal), and andy tang (draper associates), among others. These sessions drove strong engagement, with the auditorium reaching peak capacity during programming and attendees consistently citing the lineup as the strongest to date. Beyond the stage, the conference facilitated meaningful connections, with 267 one-on-one meetings booked through the event platform and over 300 participants actively using the app. Overall, the conference was widely regarded as one of the most successful yet, driven by high-caliber content, strong attendance, and an energized venture ecosystem presence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 30.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.