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Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation We453

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$550k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.

Education$908kReligion$163kArts & Culture$122kHealth$98kHuman Services$76kYouth Development$68kHousing & Shelter$38kAnimals$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $330k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL$220,000
Texas Christian University$55,000
Arlington Heights United Methodist$55,000
Boy Scouts of America$15,000
ALL SAINTS HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
STREAMS & VALLEYS INC$15,000
Amphibian Productions Inc$15,000
The Warm Place$10,000
5 Stones Foundation Inc$10,000
JOHN PETER SMITH HOSPITAL FAMILY MEDICIN$10,000
Day Resource Center for the Homeless$10,000
UT SOUTHWESTERN MONCRIEF CANCER CENTER$10,000
Meals On Wheels Inc$10,000
Fort Worth Zoologocal Association$10,000
WOMENS CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC$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 (FY22–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%United Community Centers Inc: $3k → 11%United Community Centers Inc: $3k → 11%Meals On Wheels Inc: $10k → 11%Meals On Wheels Inc: $8k → 11%Meals On Wheels Inc: $5k → 11%Meals On Wheels Inc: $5k → 11%Hope Farm Inc: $5k → 11%Safehaven Of Tarrant County: $5k → 11%Safehaven Of Tarrant County: $5k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 33 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+16%

Still filing today

82%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsOther

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

  • TV
    TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $701k · revenue +5%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $163k · revenue +7%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SF
    Slaughter Family Arts Awards
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • FW
    FORT WORTH REPORT
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +13%
  • HF
    HOPE FARM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +62%

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
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
2
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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3
Safe City Commission

Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.

Crime & Legal
4
Fort Worth Community Land Trust

The Fort Worth Community Land Trust (FWCLT) was created to provide relief to the poor and distressed and combat community deterioration. Specifically, FWCLT will create, steward and preserve a permanent supply of safe, secure, and…

Housing & Shelter
5
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
6
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
7
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
10
Scott & White Hospital-Taylor

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Southwestern Health Resources Hospitals Joc

To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers' Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 backsteadyFort Worth Civic Organizati…Pediatric and Specialty Hea…Tarrant County Community Su…Youth and Community Support…Community Theatre & DanceFamily Philanthropic Founda…Independent 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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%7%<5yr16%10%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr9%24%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%6%<5yr16%1%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr9%9%35–55yr13%75%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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%0/46
the rest of the field
16%
1,565/9,710

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

44 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. 44 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
23/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL — $701,000 · EducationTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOLTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $163,250 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY+1 more — $500 · EducationArlington Heights United Methodist — $163,250 · OtherArlington Heights United M…Baylor All Saints Medical School — $20,000 · OtherSalvation Army - Fort Worth — $20,000 · OtherThe Warm Place — $15,000 · OtherSTREAMS & VALLEYS INC — $25,000 · OtherSTREAMS & VALLEYS INCRIVERTREE ACADEMY — $20,000 · OtherDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS — $15,000 · OtherTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $20,000 · Other+20 more — $90,000 · Other+20 moreBoy Scouts of America Longhorn Council Properties Foundation Inc — $60,000 · Philanthropy5 STONES FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyJPS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTexas Cultural Trust Council — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureCASA MANANA INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureFort Worth Opera Association Inc — $8,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION — $4,500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $4,000 · Arts & CultureCANCER CARE SERVICES — $30,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $20,000 · HealthAll Saints Health Foundation — $15,000 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTERN MONCRIEF CANCER CENTER MONCRIEF CANCER INSTITUTE — $10,000 · HealthNEURO ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Health+2 more — $2,000 · HealthMEALS ON WHEELS — $27,500 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $35,000 · Animals+1 more — $1,000 · Animals
Education$864,750Other$388,250Philanthropy$117,500Arts & Culture$105,500Health$80,000Human Services$47,500Animals$36,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL — $701,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $163,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Longhorn Council Properties Foundation Inc — $60,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC — $55,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CARE SERVICES — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — $27,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budget5 STONES FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetSTREAMS & VALLEYS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJPS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA MANANA INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FORT WORTH NATURE CENTER & REFUGE INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc — $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH REPORT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FARM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEURO ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArt of Living Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHelping Restore Ability — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING AND MENTAL HEALTH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET FRONTIER OF TEXAS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB NOBLE FARMS FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Thomas M Helen McKee …Amon G Carter Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…Ann L Rhodes and Caro…Garvey Texas Foundati…Paul E Andrews Jr Fou…Mary Potishman Lard T…Community Foundation …The Roach Foundation …Communities Foundatio…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Amon G Carter-Star Te…
Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX59.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Roach Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · 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 Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation We453 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%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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