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Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$6.9MYouth Development$295kHuman Services$52kEducation$46k
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $898,354, the rows itemized in this filing. The $983,422 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,068 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $855k
$21,125
Median grant
1
States reached
$929k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$45,435
VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION$44,430
TEXAS BALLET THEATRE$41,794
STAGE WEST THEATRE$40,820
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FW$37,683
AMPHIBIAN STAGE PRODUCTIONS$37,614
THE ART STATION$36,815
FORT WORTH OPERA$36,418
PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH$35,346
AMON CARTER MUSEUM$35,234
ARTES DE LA ROSA$34,625
YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FW$33,679
CASA MANANA$33,309
CIRCLE THEATRE$31,424
THE WELMAN PROJECT$31,244
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $60k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE THANK YOU DARLIN FOUND: $8k → 11%THE THANK YOU DARLIN FOUND: $8k → 11%THANK YOU DARLIN' FOUNDATION: $19k → 11%THANK YOU DARLIN' FOUNDATION: $14k → 11%THANK YOU DARLIN' FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%THANK YOU DARLIN' FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 43 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
5

Total granted

$8.0M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+45%

Still filing today

91%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • FW
    FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $864k · revenue +5%
  • TB
    TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $619k · revenue +160%
  • FW
    FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $530k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • KA
    KIMBELL ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $65k
  • TN
    THEATRE NETWORK OF TEXAS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -21%
  • GT
    GOLD TONE SENIOR CITIZEN CHOIR
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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.

1
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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2
American Baroque Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Teatro Audaz San Antonio

Teatro Audaz cultivates Latinx creatives, stories and talent on stage and in the classroom through innovative theater and community programs.

Arts & Culture
5
American Festival for the Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Encanto Arts
Arts & Culture
7
Gateway Performance Productions

classes and performances in the fine and performing arts

Arts & Culture
8
The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Arts & Culture
9
Foundation for Modern Opera
—
10
La Quinta Arts Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Tigerlion Arts
Arts & Culture
12
Performing Arts Houston

We connect audiences with exceptional artists through diverse performances and learning experiences. we ignite and cultivate passion for the performing arts to create community, inspire dialogue and enrich our world.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stage West Theatre; 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.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 53 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $864,450 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $619,098 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INCFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $547,881 · Arts & CultureFort Worth Opera Association IncFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $529,733 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATIONVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $524,588 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn Foundation IncAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $375,394 · Arts & CultureAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ARTAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC: $374,676 · Arts & CultureAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INCCASA MANANA INC: $363,872 · Arts & CultureSTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC: $330,763 · Arts & CultureARTES DE LA ROSA INC: $286,125 · Arts & CultureKimbell Art Foundation: $278,047 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH: $276,382 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $262,799 · Arts & Culture+19 more: $1,248,468 · Arts & Culture+19 moreKIDS WHO CARE INC: $305,740 · OtherKIDS WHO CAR…CIRCLE THEATRE INC: $214,002 · OtherCIRCLE THEAT…Fifth Avenue Foundation: $66,480 · OtherFifth Avenue…KIMBELL ART MUSEUM: $64,963 · OtherKIMBELL ART …FORT WORTH CIVIC ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $63,145 · OtherFORT WORTH C…Pocket Theatre Inc: $42,412 · OtherTHE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATED: $37,785 · Other+8 more: $100,121 · Other+8 moreTexas Academy of Figurative Art: $121,902 · EducationDECOLONIZING THE MUSIC ROOM: $34,000 · EducationSOUTHSIDE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $22,947 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $21,708 · EducationTHE ART STATION: $108,815 · HealthThank You Darlin Foundation: $60,028 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$6,882,276Other$894,648Education$200,557Health$108,815Human Services$60,028

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $864,450 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $619,098 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $547,881 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $529,733 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $524,588 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $375,394 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC: $374,676 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetCASA MANANA INC: $363,872 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC: $330,763 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetKIDS WHO CARE INC: $305,740 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetARTES DE LA ROSA INC: $286,125 over 8y, 22% of budgetKimbell Art Foundation: $278,047 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH: $276,382 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $262,799 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCIRCLE THEATRE INC: $214,002 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetIMAGINATION FORT WORTH: $202,781 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetBALLET FRONTIER OF TEXAS: $180,220 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetSINACA STUDIOS - SCHOOL OF GLASS AND GALLERY: $171,141 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetLONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC: $143,250 over 8y, 12% of budgetTexas Academy of Figurative Art: $121,902 over 9y, 15% of budgetTHE ART STATION: $108,815 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetJUBILEE PLAYERS INC: $105,878 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetARTS ON TAP INC: $90,355 over 8y, 17% of budgetFifth Avenue Foundation: $66,480 over 5y, 46% of budgetThank You Darlin Foundation: $60,028 over 6y, 49% of budgetSTOLEN SHAKESPEARE GUILD: $57,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetTHE WELMAN PROJECT: $55,744 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFort Worth Classic Guitar Society: $49,415 over 3y, 19% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH CHORALE SCHOLA CANTORUM OF TEXAS INC: $47,715 over 3y, 14% of budgetPocket Theatre Inc: $42,412 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetTHE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATED: $37,785 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetDECOLONIZING THE MUSIC ROOM: $34,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetCaminos Del Inka Inc: $29,575 over 3y, 6.7% of budget619 PRODUCTIONS: $27,020 over 3y, 13% of budgetBallet Concerto Inc: $26,408 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetKinfolk House: $23,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetSOUTHSIDE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $22,947 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $21,708 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTCU Wesley Foundation: $20,108 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC: $17,532 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMaroon 9 Community Enrichment Organization: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetONDAS CULTURAL & MOVEM ARTS: $9,400 over 1y, 11% of budgetPanther City Artists: $6,038 over 1y, 8.3% of budget
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.

  • 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 STAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS WHO CARE 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 BALLET FRONTIER OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds SINACA STUDIOS - SCHOOL OF GLASS AND GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Academy of Figurative Art ↗
  • Who funds THE ART STATION ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE PLAYERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS ON TAP INC ↗
  • Who funds Fifth Avenue Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Thank You Darlin Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STOLEN SHAKESPEARE GUILD ↗
  • Who funds THE WELMAN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Fort Worth Classic Guitar Society ↗
  • Who funds THE FORT WORTH CHORALE SCHOLA CANTORUM OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Pocket Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds DECOLONIZING THE MUSIC ROOM ↗
  • Who funds Caminos Del Inka Inc ↗
  • Who funds 619 PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Ballet Concerto Inc ↗
  • Who funds Kinfolk House ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Communities Foundatio…Ann L Rhodes and Caro…Sid W Richardson Foun…Thomas M Helen McKee …Amon G Carter Foundat…Fort Worth Tourism Pu…William E Scott Found…Amon G Carter-Star Te…R4 FoundationGarvey Texas Foundati…Fifth Avenue Foundati…
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX40× affinity19 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 · 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
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 Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    14report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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