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Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2017
29
Grants FY2017
28
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$150
Largest grant, FY2017
$10,000
States reached, FY2017
9
Total assets, FY2017
$15k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
SD
PA
CA
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Ballet Theater Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hadassah Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Israel Project: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoodfellow Fund: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWeitzman National Museum of American Jewish History: $90 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Institute for National Security of America: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFort Worth Museum of Science and History: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of WRR: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamera Club of New York Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFacts and Logic About the Middle East Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co TrusteeTX17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Rosenthal Foundation · Robert S and Joyce Pate Capper Charitable Foundation · Fifth Avenue Foundation · Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund

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.

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About Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation

How much does Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation give?
Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $29,764 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Philanthropy (35%), International (4%).
Who are Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Texas Ballet Theater Inc ($6k), Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ($5k), Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association ($2k).
Does Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee, Garvey Texas Foundation Inc, Amon G Carter Foundation.
Where is Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation based?
Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation is based in TX.

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 29 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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