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A M Pate Jr Charitable Trust at a glance

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A M Pate Jr Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$85k
Granted FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$165kEducation$81kHuman Services$75kCrime & Legal$45kHealth$32kSocial Science$25kCommunity Improvement$10kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORT WORTH$15,000
PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC$15,000
STAR SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM$15,000
LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH$10,000
JEWEL CHARITY BALL INC$10,000
FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY$10,000
DAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORT WORTH: $15k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $10k → 11%THE PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 11%LENA POPE HOME INC: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$350k · 13 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$350k
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

62%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AC
    AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +8%
  • JC
    JEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED
    6× · 2020–2026 · $41k · revenue +3%
  • PA
    PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC
    5× · 2020–2026 · $37k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • FW
    FORT WORTH MODERN ART
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • 6S
    6 STONES MISSION NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -14%
  • AC
    AB Christian Learning Centergraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue +299%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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2
Child Study Center

The child study center (csc) provides children with complex developmental and behavioral disabilities the highest quality diagnosis, treatment and education to help them achieve their full potential.

Education
3
Dallas County Historical Foundation

The sixth floor museum at dealey plaza chronicles the assassination and legacy of president john f. kennedy; interprets the dealey plaza national historic landmark district and the john f. kennedy memorial plaza; and presents contemporary…

Arts & Culture
4
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
5
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
7
State Fair of Texas

The state fair of texas celebrates all things texan by promoting agriculture, education, and community involvement through quality entertainment in a family-friendly environment. the state fair of texas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit…

Recreation & Sports
8
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
9
Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center Llc

The mission of the fort bend children's discovery center is to transform communities through innovative, child-centered learning.

Arts & Culture
10
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
11
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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12
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 6 Stones Mission Network; the most unlike its peers is Kimbell Art Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORT WORTH POLICE OFFICER AWARD: $45,000 · OtherFORT WORTH POLICE OFFICER AWARDFORT WORTH MODERN ART MUSEUM: $40,000 · OtherFORT WORTH MODERN ART MUSEUMFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $32,000 · OtherFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCEFORT WORTH MODERN ART: $30,000 · OtherFORT WORTH MODERN ARTTHE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF TEXAS: $25,000 · OtherTHE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF TEXASRIDGLEA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherRIDGLEA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHNEW HORIZONS NORTH TEXAS INC: $10,000 · OtherWERK ON ME INC: $10,000 · OtherTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $11,000 · OtherAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $41,000 · Arts & CultureAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WES…PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $37,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FORT WORT…FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIE…NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM A…Historic Fort Worth Inc: $7,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Fort Worth Inc+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $25,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSF…CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $15,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIE…6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $10,000 · Human Services6 STONES MISSION …GRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE: $10,000 · Human ServicesGRAPEVINE RELIEF …THE PARENTING CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARENTING CEN…LENA POPE HOME INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLENA POPE HOME IN…TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRI…Star Sponsorship Program Inc: $15,000 · EducationStar Spons…AB Christian Learning Center: $10,000 · EducationAB Christi…LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH INC: $10,000 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE…JEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED: $41,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHumane Society of North Texas: $5,000 · Animals
Other$228,000Arts & Culture$118,000Human Services$80,000Education$50,000Health$42,000Community Improvement$10,000Animals$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $41,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED: $41,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $37,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF TEXAS: $25,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARENTING CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLENA POPE HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Fort Worth Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKimbell Art Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sid W Richardson Foun…Thomas M Helen McKee …Leo Potishman Foundat…Mary Potishman Lard T…Garvey Texas Foundati…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Crystelle Waggoner Ch…Communities Foundatio…Community Foundation …Textron Charitable Tr…Robert S and Joyce Pa…William E Scott Found…
Sid W Richardson FoundationTX24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Robert S and Joyce Pate Capper Charitable Foundation · William E Scott Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A M Pate Jr Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A M Pate Jr Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to A M Pate Jr Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to A M Pate Jr Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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