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Brogdon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Brogdon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthScience & TechArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$35k0%
FY20244$125k25%
FY20233$105k67%
FY20225$16k40%
FY20212$8k100%
FY20202$11k0%
FY20192$11k0%
FY201812$109k50%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$128kScience & Tech$100kEmployment$75kArts & Culture$50kRecreation & Sports$40kYouth Development$21kEnvironment$20kHuman Services$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Brogdon Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Botanical Research Institute of Texas Inc$100,00010%
Texas Christian University$52,73140%
Cristo Rey Fort Worth Catholic High School Inc$52,43561%
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History$50,0001n/a
Davey Obrien Foundation$25,00015%
Fort Worth Stock Show Syndicate$19,01660%
Sky Ranches Inc$15,00020%
Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation Inc$11,00037%
Ut Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center Moncrief Cancer Institute$6,50010%
Colorado State University Foundation$5,00010%
North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Inc$5,0001n/a
Gary Patterson Foundation$2,50011%
Breakthrough T1d$1,00010%
Fort Worth Report$1,00010%
Texas Wesleyan University$60010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brogdon Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBotanical Research Institute of Texas Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Christian University: $52,731 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCristo Rey Fort Worth Catholic High School Inc: $52,435 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDavey Obrien Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFort Worth Stock Show Syndicate: $19,016 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSky Ranches Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBobby Bragan Youth Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetUt Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center Moncrief Cancer Institute: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColorado State University Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGary Patterson Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFort Worth Report: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Wesleyan University: $600 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 13.

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.

Amon G Carter FoundationTX22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amon G Carter Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Morris Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Robert D and Catherine R Alexander Foundation · William E Scott Foundation · AllianceTexas Foundation · Nicholas Martin Jr Family 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.

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About Brogdon Foundation

How much does Brogdon Foundation give?
Brogdon Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $34,525 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Brogdon Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Science & Tech (22%), Employment (16%).
Who are Brogdon Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Botanical Research Institute of Texas Inc ($100k), Texas Christian University ($53k), Cristo Rey Fort Worth Catholic High School Inc ($52k).
Does Brogdon Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Brogdon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brogdon Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amon G Carter Foundation, Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc.
Where is Brogdon Foundation based?
Brogdon 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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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