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Arlington Tomorrow Foundation

The ARLINGTON TOMORROW FOUNDATION is dedicated to programs that make arlington, texas an exemplary environment to live, learn, work and play.

$8.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7.1M
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 FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$12MRecreation & Sports$11MArts & Culture$9.0MEducation$2.8MHealth$1.7MHuman Services$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.3MCivil Rights$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
  • $250k+2 grants · $7.6M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$115M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF ARLINGTON$7,133,414
TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION$500,000
ARLINGTON CHARITIES INC$200,000
DOWNTOWN ARLINGTON MANAGEMENT$100,000
DANCE THEATER ARLINGTON$50,000
ARLINGTON URBAN MINISTRIES$50,000
CANCER CARE SERVICES$40,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF TARRANT COUNTY$25,000
ARLINGTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
COOKS CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$23,100
SHAREFEST-TEXAS$20,000
TRINITY KIDS INC$10,000
WATER FROM THE ROCK$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRINITY KIDS INC: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH: $50k → 11%TRINITY KIDS INC: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH: $25k → 11%TRINITY KIDS INC: $10k → 11%SIXTY AND BETTER INC: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF TARRANT CTY: $8k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF TARRANT CTY: $8k → 11%THE WARM PLACE: $20k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $20k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $60k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $20k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $50k → 11%THE WARM PLACE: $20k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $20k → 11%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $30k → 11%THE WARM PLACE: $15k → 11%THE WARM PLACE: $15k → 11%THE WARM PLACE: $15k → 11%ARLINGTON CHARITIES INC: $200k → 11%ARLINGTON CHARITIES INC: $29k → 11%THE SOCIETY OF VINCENT DE PAUL: $30k → 11%ARLINGTON CHARITIES INC: $12k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF TARRANT CTY: $8k → 11%MHMR FOUNDATION: $525k → 11%MHMR VISIONS: $400k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS DFW CHAPTER: $45k → 11%DESTINY EMPOWERMENT ENTERPRISES: $20k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$38M · 31 repeat orgs$6.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
40

Total granted

$38M
$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+19%

Still filing today

87%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $603k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • NM
    NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5.0M · revenue +241% · 28% of their budget
  • TA
    THEATRE ARLINGTON INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $2.1M · revenue +56% · 61% of their budget
  • GO
    GREEN OAKS EDUCATION AND SUPPORT INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +37% · 68% of their budget

Funded once

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.3M · revenue -16%
  • IC
    IMPACT CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -63%
  • TP
    TASTE PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue +7% · 29% of their budget

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.

1
Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital

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
2
Arlington Life Shelter Real Estate

The mission of the organization is to support the purposes of the arlington life shelter.

Human Services
3
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
4
The Arc of North Texas

To support and empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to improve their quality of life.

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5
Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
7
The Museum of North Texas History

To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.

Arts & Culture
8
Arlington Hearts and Hands Inc

To provide food and clothing to those in need in the Arlington,Texas area.

Human Services
9
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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10
North Dallas Food Pantry

North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.

Human Services
11
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance

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
12
Arlington Woman's Club

The mission of the arlington woman's club is to promote and develop the potential of its members through education and to benefit the community through its philanthropic projects.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Society of Saint Vincent De Paul Fort Worth Diocesan Council. 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 backsteadyCommunity Support ServicesFort Worth Area Community O…Christian Missionary Organi…Youth Education SupportPrivate Grantmaking Foundat…Youth and Family Support Se…Tarrant County Community Se…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…Healthcare Access & ServicesChristian K-12 Schools
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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%5%<5yr16%12%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr9%29%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%5%<5yr16%7%5–10yr18%32%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr9%32%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/77
the rest of the field
16%
1,563/9,679

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

67 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. 67 of the 77 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.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
44/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF ARLINGTON — $22,068,976 · OtherCITY OF ARLINGTONUNIV OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON — $1,149,905 · Other+40 more — $5,280,451 · Other+40 moreNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MEDAL OF HON…THEATRE ARLINGTON INC — $2,080,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ARLINGTON INCArlington Museum of Art Inc — $1,040,440 · Arts & CultureArlington Museum of A…HEALTH EDUCATION LEARNING PROJECT — $383,750 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $140,000 · Arts & CultureGREEN OAKS EDUCATION AND SUPPORT INC — $1,300,000 · EducationTEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CELEBRATION COMMITTEE INC — $69,000 · Education+4 more — $179,325 · EducationIMPACT CENTER — $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsFriends of the Levitt Pavilion - Arlington — $550,000 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLE FIELDS OF DFW INC — $200,000 · Recreation & SportsNEHEMIAH BUILDS INC — $175,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION — $925,000 · Human ServicesARLINGTON CHARITIES INC — $240,500 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $200,000 · Human ServicesWHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH — $75,000 · Human Services+7 more — $169,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,250,000 · Civil RightsARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER — $985,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING CHANNEL — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $66,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW DAY — $50,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$28,499,332Arts & Culture$8,644,190Education$2,048,325Recreation & Sports$1,985,000Human Services$1,694,500Civil Rights$1,250,000Housing & Shelter$1,201,000

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 budgetNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $5,000,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetTHEATRE ARLINGTON INC — $2,080,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetGREEN OAKS EDUCATION AND SUPPORT INC — $1,300,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetArlington Museum of Art Inc — $1,040,440 over 3y, 63% of budgetARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER — $985,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION — $925,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetRIVER LEGACY FOUNDATION — $820,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetTASTE PROJECT — $750,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetFriends of the Levitt Pavilion - Arlington — $550,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetTEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $485,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH EDUCATION LEARNING PROJECT — $383,750 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc — $350,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetARLINGTON CHARITIES INC — $240,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation — $207,807 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION METROPLEX INC — $206,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $200,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDENTAL HEALTH FOR ARLINGTON INC — $200,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMIRACLE FIELDS OF DFW INC — $200,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetNEHEMIAH BUILDS INC — $175,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetCANCER CARE SERVICES — $160,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN ARLINGTON MANAGEMENT CORP — $144,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetArlington Urban Ministries — $135,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $120,624 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY — $105,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD CARE ASSOCIATES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING CHANNEL — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetARLINGTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $91,620 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetWHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC — $85,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $66,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetChild Study Center — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMetro Sports Fieldhouse — $60,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetARLINGTON DANCE THEATRE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetInternational Corridor Vision — $50,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetFORT WORTH REPORT — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetARLINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetMANSFIELD MISSON CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetARLINGTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTRAVEL AND SPORTS LEGACY FOUNDATION — $49,325 over 3y, 40% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORFUL WORLD FOUNDATION CORP — $40,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL FORT WORTH DIOCESAN COUNCIL — $30,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetHIM Food Bank Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMETHODIST JUSTICE MINISTRY OF FUMC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTrinity Kids Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Communities Foundatio…United Way of Tarrant…Ann L Rhodes and Caro…Textron Charitable Tr…Helen Irwin Littauer …Sid W Richardson Foun…Thomas M Helen McKee …America's CharitiesThe Morris FoundationAmon G Carter Foundat…Ken W Davis Foundation
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX66.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Tarrant County · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · America's Charities · The Morris Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Ken W Davis 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 Arlington Tomorrow Foundation 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%6%25%56%100%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
    16report 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 77 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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