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· Private foundation

Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$6.2MHuman Services$625kEducation$500kYouth Development$500kFood & Nutrition$225kHealth$223kCrime & Legal$175kRecreation & Sports$140kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $525k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC$140,000
CASA MANANA INC$140,000
AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC$140,000
CIRCLE THEATRE INC$140,000
HIP POCKET THEATRE$140,000
JUBILEE PLAYERS INC dba JUBILEE$140,000
TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$100,000
CRISTO REY FORT WORTH HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY$50,000
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$50,000
FORT WORTH OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$40,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH$35,000
ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH & TARRANT$30,000
STREAMS & VALLEYS INC$30,000
FOUNDATION FOR YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $540k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $15k → 5%WINGS OF HOPE EQUITHERAPY: $10k → 10%WINGS OF HOPE EQUITHERAPY: $10k → 10%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $10k → 11%ARLINGTON MANSFIELD AREA YMCA: $10k → 11%SIXTY AND BETTER INC: $20k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $10k → 11%6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $25k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $65k → 11%H O P E FARM INC: $25k → 11%HOPE FARM INC: $25k → 11%HOPE FARM INC: $25k → 11%WHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER: $15k → 11%TARRANT COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR: $15k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $75k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $50k → 11%ARLINGTON CHARITIES INC: $25k → 11%TARRANT COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 11%ARLINGTON CHARITIES INC: $25k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $10k → 11%GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%ARLINGTON CHARITIES INC: $25k → 11%CLIFF HAVEN ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE: $10k → 11%LENA POPE HOME INC: $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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.3M · 48 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
56

Total granted

$7.3M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+15%

Still filing today

88%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • CT
    CIRCLE THEATRE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $855k · revenue +5% · 37% of their budget
  • CM
    CASA MANANA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $800k · revenue +40%
  • PT
    Pocket Theatre Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $790k · revenue +99% · 63% of their budget

Funded once

  • EF
    EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -94%
  • SW
    STAGE WEST AKA ALLIED THEATRE GROUP
    one grant, 2020 · $140k
  • AT
    ALLIED THEATRE GROUP AKA STAGE WEST
    one grant, 2019 · $120k

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

04Your field

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.

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Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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2
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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3
North Texas Performing Arts

The mission of North Texas Performing Arts is to develop the character of youth through quality performing arts education and family entertainment. Our vision is to make our programs accessible and desirable to our North Texas families.

Arts & Culture
4
Texas Cultural Trust Council

Public arts funding

Philanthropy
5
Teatro Hispano De Dallas

Teatro Dallas is committed to the cultural empowerment of the Latino community by representing our varied experiences, voices, and artistic expressions. Through high quality theatrical programming Teatro Dallas employs the power of theater…

Arts & Culture
6
Dallas Wind Symphony

The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and…

Arts & Culture
7
Theatre Three Inc

We are an intimate stage for everyone. Playwrights will invent, artists will risk, and audiences will be immersed in new and familiar plays they can see from all sides. Feel emboldened, entertained and intrigued rediscover and reach for T3.

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8
Dallas Childrens Theater Inc

The mission of dallas children's theater is to inspire young people to creative and productive lives through the art of theater.to give rise to inspiring theater, dallas children's theater:- creates and produces innovative professional…

Arts & Culture
9
TexArts Association for Visual & Performing Arts

TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…

Arts & Culture
10
Fort Worth Early Music

Public performance of baroque classical music (17th, 18th, and 19th century) using period appropriate instruments.

Arts & Culture
11
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
The Dallas Opera Foundation

Provide financial support to the dallas opera.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas and the most unlike its peers is Mimir Chamber Music Festival. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyTarrant County Safety Net S…Pediatric Healthcare Networ…Fort Worth Community Founda…Policy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Acute Care Hosp…Dallas Community Support Se…Family Crisis Support Servi…Regional Business Developme…Performing Arts Organizatio…Collegiate Fraternity Organ…Independent SchoolsIslamic Community Organizat…Dallas Community Organizati…Regional Chambers of Commer…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%3%<5yr16%5%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr9%33%35–55yr13%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%10%<5yr16%1%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr9%29%35–55yr13%31%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/92
the rest of the field
16%
1,565/9,664

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.

04the grantee network

91 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. 91 of the 118 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/91
Grantees still filing
55/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CASA MANANA INC — $800,000 · Arts & CultureCASA MANANA INCAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC — $780,000 · Arts & CultureAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INCJUBILEE PLAYERS INC — $640,000 · Arts & CultureJUBILEE PLAYERS INCSTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC — $540,000 · Arts & CultureSTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP …FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $215,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART — $175,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more — $832,500 · Arts & Culture+17 moreCIRCLE THEATRE INC — $855,000 · OtherCIRCLE THEATRE INCPocket Theatre Inc — $790,000 · OtherPocket Theatre IncSTAGE WEST AKA ALLIED THEATRE GROUP — $140,000 · OtherALLIED THEATRE GROUP AKA STAGE WEST — $120,000 · Other+55 more — $1,672,500 · Other+55 moreSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $190,000 · Human ServicesARLINGTON CHARITIES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INC — $75,000 · Human Services6 STONES MISSION NETWORK — $25,000 · Human ServicesTarrant County Association For the Blind — $25,000 · Human ServicesDREAM PARK — $20,000 · Human ServicesSIXTY AND BETTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesWings of Hope Equitherapy — $20,000 · Human ServicesLENA POPE HOME INC — $20,000 · Human Services+9 more — $100,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationTHE SHAKEN BABY ALLIANCE — $50,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $25,000 · EducationARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY — $25,000 · EducationSTARS THEATER CO — $15,000 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH INC — $15,000 · EducationHOPE TUTORING CENTER INC — $10,000 · EducationEVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSURVIVE AND THRIVE EDUCATION — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERTREE ACADEMY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $110,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsMulticultural Alliance — $15,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW — $50,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY — $50,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank — $30,000 · Food & NutritionTASTE PROJECT — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$3,982,500Other$3,577,500Human Services$570,000Education$290,000Youth Development$280,000Civil Rights$225,000Food & Nutrition$140,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCIRCLE THEATRE INC — $855,000 over 6y, 37% of budgetCASA MANANA INC — $800,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetPocket Theatre Inc — $790,000 over 6y, 63% of budgetAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC — $780,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetJUBILEE PLAYERS INC — $640,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetSTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC — $540,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $215,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $190,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART — $175,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC — $130,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc — $120,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $110,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetArtisan Productions — $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSTREAMS & VALLEYS INC — $80,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetARLINGTON CHARITIES INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FARM INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetKIDS WHO CARE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHEATRE ARLINGTON INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH — $50,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN EXPOSITION AND LIVESTOCK SHOW — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBALLET FRONTIER OF TEXAS — $50,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetFORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHAKEN BABY ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSINACA STUDIOS - SCHOOL OF GLASS AND GALLERY — $45,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS CENTER FOR ARTS ACADEMICS — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHelping Restore Ability — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBallet Concerto Inc — $32,500 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetCommunity Food Bank — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget6 STONES MISSION NETWORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTarrant County Association For the Blind — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARLINGTON CLASSICS ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY OF FUMC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

Sid W Richardson Foun…Thomas M Helen McKee …Amon G Carter Foundat…Community Foundation …Communities Foundatio…Helen Irwin Littauer …Garvey Texas Foundati…Crystelle Waggoner Ch…Mary Potishman Lard T…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Leo Potishman Foundat…Amon G Carter-Star Te…
Sid W Richardson FoundationTX93.3× affinity43 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 · Amon G Carter Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund

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 Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your 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
    36report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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