Black Tie Dinner distributes funds
FROM STAFF REPORTS During its 2024 Wrap Party on Thursday night, Black Tie Dinner distributed a total of $1.45 million to 20 local beneficiaries, national beneficiary Human Rights Campaign Fund and to LGBTQ SAVES, recipient of the Beyond the Tie Fund.
Black Tie “proudly expanded its legacy of giving in 2024, uplifting more LGBTQ+ organizations across North Texas than any time in the past two decades,” according to a press release announcing the distribution amounts. “In a year marked by increasing challenges for the LGBTQ+ community, Black Tie Dinner reaffirmed its commitment with a $1.45 million distribution at the 2024 Wrap Party, generously underwritten by Lexus.” Also at the Wrap Party, Deirdre Coleman was introduced as the junior co-chair for 2025, making her the first Black woman to serve as a Black Tie Dinner co-chair.
This also marks the first time the organization has been co-chaired by two women, with senior Co-Chair Liliana Villarreal the first Latina and the first LGBTQ ally to serve in that role.
Joshua Williams was introduced as co-chair elect. Distribution totals for local beneficiaries were: AIDS Services of Dallas: $40,627 Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star: $47,327 Cathedral of Hope United Church of Christ: $42,209 Celebration Community Church: $40,484 Dallas Hope Charities: $41,184 Equality Texas Foundation: $43,634 Finn’s Place: $20,317 Grant Halliburton Foundation: $22,304 Galileo Church | North Texas Transportation Network: $19,392 Help Center for LGBT Health & Wellness: $70,704 Legacy Cares: $40,309 Northaven United Methodist Church: $67,040 Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas: $56,344 Pride Frisco: $47,747 Resource Center: $47,059 Synergy Wesley Foundation: $41,384 Transgender Education Network of Texas: $20,511 Transition Resource Action Center: $41,087 Turtle Creek Chorale: $40,684 Uptown Players, Inc.: $45,279 Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the national beneficiary, received $613,375, and Beyond The Tie Fund recipient LGBTQ Saves
