How much does Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund give?

Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund reported 122 grants totaling $1,974,247 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 124 and 156 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Arts & Culture (21%), Education (10%).

Who are Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art ($681k), Texas Health Resources Foundation ($375k), Cook Children's Medical Center ($170k).

Does Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Amon G Carter Foundation, Sid W Richardson Foundation.

Where is Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund based?

Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund is based in TX.

Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund

Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

122

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$2.5MArts & Culture$2.0MEducation$952kHuman Services$825kPhilanthropy$641kYouth Development$595kFood & Nutrition$403kHousing & Shelter$355kOther$0

02FY2025 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k60 grants · $119k
$10k–50k51 grants · $1.0M
$50k–250k11 grants · $830k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
Communities in Schools Tarrant Co	$75,000
UNT Health Science Center Fdtn	$75,000
James L West Dementia Care	$50,000
Texas Health Resources	$50,000
Baylor Scott White Health Fdtn	$50,000
Casa Manana Theatre	$50,000
Fort Worth Report	$50,000
Fort Worth Sister Cities	$40,000
Welman Project	$30,000
Cancer Care Services	$30,000
CASA of Tarrant County	$30,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.3M · 154 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

154

Total granted

$6.3M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

Still filing today

28%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $516k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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
4× · 2021–2025 · $681k · revenue +29%
CC
Cook Children's Medical Center
2× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +50%
SW
STAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +22%

Funded once

CC
Cook Childrens Medical Foundation
one grant, 2024 · $250k
CC
Cook Children's Health Foundation
one grant, 2022 · $250k
WP
WARM Place Foundation
one grant, 2022 · $150k

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.

Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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Safe City Commission

Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.

Crime & Legal

Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

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.

Health

Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health

Texas Forensic Nurse Examiners - Forensic Center of Excellence

Through a coordinated community response, the forensic center empowers victims, promotes healing and creates innovative and comprehensive solutions to fill gaps in victim services.

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Fort Worth Community Land Trust

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…

Housing & Shelter

Texas Tribune Inc

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…

Education

Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce

To act as the voice of business, articulating a business perspective and advocating policies supported by the fort worth general business community.

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Center for Public Policy Priorities

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…

Public Benefit

North Texas Christian Foundation

National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.

Philanthropy

Fort Worth Academy for the Education of Children and Youth

Education of children and youth

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth; 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.

04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 256 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

80/80

Grantees still filing

46/80

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,013,767Arts & Culture$1,596,000Health$800,000Human Services$590,000Philanthropy$425,000Education$416,000Food & Nutrition$225,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX112× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

25report 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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