· Private foundation
Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k60 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $830k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Amon Carter Museum of American Art | $150,000 |
| American Warrior Association | $100,000 |
| Cook Childrens Medical Center | $100,000 |
| North Texas Community Foundation | $80,000 |
| UNT Health Science Center Fdtn | $75,000 |
| Communities in Schools Tarrant Co | $75,000 |
| James L West Dementia Care | $50,000 |
| Baylor Scott White Health Fdtn | $50,000 |
| Fort Worth Report | $50,000 |
| Texas Health Resources | $50,000 |
| Casa Manana Theatre | $50,000 |
| Fort Worth Sister Cities | $40,000 |
| CASA of Tarrant County | $30,000 |
| Cancer Care Services | $30,000 |
| Welman Project | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $583k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
154 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $516k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ACAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART4× · 2021–2025 · $681k · revenue +54%
- CCCook Children's Medical Center2× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +47%
- SWSTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CCCook Childrens Medical Foundationone grant, 2024 · $250k
- CCCook Children's Health Foundationone grant, 2022 · $250k
- WPWARM Place Foundationone grant, 2022 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Through a coordinated community response, the forensic center empowers victims, promotes healing and creates innovative and comprehensive solutions to fill gaps in victim services.
The Fort Worth Community Land Trust (FWCLT) was created to provide relief to the poor and distressed and combat community deterioration. Specifically, FWCLT will create, steward and preserve a permanent supply of safe, secure, and…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
To act as the voice of business, articulating a business perspective and advocating policies supported by the fort worth general business community.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
Education of children and youth
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth and the most unlike its peers is Blue Diamond Recreation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 256 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds STAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW KEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS WHO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WARRIOR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH REPORT ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CUISINE FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds DONT FORGET TO FEED ME PET FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY OF FUMC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · The Morris Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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