Texas · Public charity
Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc
To create an environment that promotes, nurtures, and supports the arts in our community.
- $983k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $898k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $21,125
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,435
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $929k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $898k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $900k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $924k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $919k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $918k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $964k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $903k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $873k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association | $864,450 | 9 | 2% |
| Texas Ballet Theater Inc | $619,098 | 9 | 1% |
| Fort Worth Opera Association Inc | $547,881 | 9 | 5% |
| Fort Worth Art Association | $529,733 | 9 | 1% |
| Van Cliburn Foundation Inc | $524,588 | 9 | 2% |
| Amon Carter Museum of Western Art | $375,394 | 7 | 0% |
| Amphibian Productions Inc | $374,676 | 9 | 6% |
| Casa Manana Inc | $363,872 | 8 | 1% |
| Stage West Theatre Formerly Allied Theatre Group Inc | $330,763 | 9 | 3% |
| Kids Who Care Inc | $305,740 | 9 | 6% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation · William E Scott Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · R4 Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Fifth Avenue Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc with peer funders
About Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc
- How much does Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc give?
- Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc reported 39 itemized grants totaling $898,354, out of $983,422 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (95%), Youth Development (4%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association ($864k), Texas Ballet Theater Inc ($619k), Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ($548k).
- Does Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes.
- Where is Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc based?
- Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc is based in TX.
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