· Public charity
Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc
To provide leadership and advocacy to the arts in fort worth and tarrant county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $899,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $950,842 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,342 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $831k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $52,000 |
| VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION | $46,000 |
| STAGE WEST THEATRE | $45,000 |
| AMPHIBIAN STAGE PRODUCTIONS | $45,000 |
| TEXAS BALLET THEATRE | $44,000 |
| KIDS WHO CARE | $44,000 |
| MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FW | $42,000 |
| ARTES DE LA ROSA | $39,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH | $39,000 |
| AMON CARTER MUSEUM | $38,000 |
| YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FW | $37,000 |
| KIMBELL MUSEUM OF ART | $36,000 |
| CASA MANANA | $36,000 |
| THE ART STATION | $35,000 |
| FORT WORTH OPERA | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $52k) 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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- FWFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $819k · revenue +5%
- TBTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $577k · revenue +160%
- FWFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $492k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- KAKIMBELL ART MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $65k
- BCBallet Concerto Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +53%
- TCTHE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +68%
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.
American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…
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…
Public performance of baroque classical music (17th, 18th, and 19th century) using period appropriate instruments.
Founded in 1993, American Festival for the Arts (AFA) provides high quality community-based music education programs and performance opportunities designed primarily for youth and, through its concert series and outreach, seeks to broaden…
We entertain, educate, and inspire by curating and commissioning extraordinary dance and perfomance art from around the world.
Midland festival ballet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to promote and present the art of classical ballet through education, performance, and outreach.
The Pearland Theatre Guild was founded in order to give the community a fun and creative outlet in the performing arts. The Pearl Theater was established as a home for creatives to take part in high-quality theatrical experiences. From the…
Brings exceptional live dance and chamber music together for audiences in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. Performances are exclusively with live music, as well as regularly commission new works of choreography and score.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association and the most unlike its peers is Kinfolk House. 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 30 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 48 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
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 FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MANANA INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS WHO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds STAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ARTES DE LA ROSA INC ↗
- Who funds Kimbell Art Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds SINACA STUDIOS - SCHOOL OF GLASS AND GALLERY ↗
- Who funds BALLET FRONTIER OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Academy of Figurative Art ↗
- Who funds ARTS ON TAP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART STATION ↗
- Who funds Fifth Avenue Foundation ↗
- Who funds Thank You Darlin Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Classic Guitar Society ↗
- Who funds STOLEN SHAKESPEARE GUILD ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH CHORALE SCHOLA CANTORUM OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Pocket Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WELMAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DECOLONIZING THE MUSIC ROOM ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TCU Wesley Foundation ↗
- Who funds Caminos Del Inka Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Kinfolk House ↗
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: 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
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 Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc 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.