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Burnett Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM | $2,299,652 |
| AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION | $1,379,791 |
| FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION | $1,340,801 |
| FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $958,851 |
| KIMBELL ART MUSEUM | $919,861 |
| NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME | $459,930 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 3% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- EMEisenhower Medical Center3× · 2017–2022 · $11M · revenue +94%
- FWFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2023 · $9.1M · revenue +45%
- AQAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $8.1M · revenue +133% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- TATCU - AWM SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2022 · $25M
- CHCALVARY HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -3%
- TETCU - ENERGY INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
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.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The amon carter museum of western art was established through the generosity of amon g. carter sr. (1879-1955) to house his collection of more than 400 paintings and sculptures by fredric remingtion and charles m. russell, to collect,…
Educational and cultural center to enrich lives through collection, study, exhibition, interpretation and celebration of visual arts.
The fort worth modern art museum association was established to solicit and receive donations for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of the fort worth art association.
The Museum of Western Art in the Texas Hill Country is dedicated to excellence in the collection, preservation and display of Western art.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Briscoe Western Art Museum is a welcoming institution dedicated to celebrating the art, history and culture of the American West. Its gallery of paintings, sculptures, photographs and meticulously crafted artifacts are open to the public…
The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers' Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Artesia Aquatic Center Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
35 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. 35 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 GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Safe City Commission ↗
- Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds Ranching Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE O'KEEFFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTESIA AQUATIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SITE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH REPORT ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
- Who funds Kimbell Art Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
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: Bnsf Railway Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Wm & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund Xxxxx3001 · Barbara Ann Baldridge Foundation We453 · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · R4 Foundation · Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation · Robert D and Catherine R Alexander Foundation · The Bratton Family 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 Burnett Foundation 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.
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
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.
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