Texas · Private foundation
Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2026
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $70,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 60% of the organizations Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 25 | $4.1M | 32% |
| FY2025 | 40 | $3.9M | 60% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $2.6M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $3.0M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $800k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $725k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $681k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Christian University | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Humane Society of North Texas | $880,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Meals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County | $705,000 | 4 | 2% |
| All Saints Health Foundation | $550,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Tarrant Area Food Bank | $525,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ach Child and Family Services | $360,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Center for Transforming Lives | $320,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Fort Worth Art Association | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · The Morris Foundation
How this is measured
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About Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust
- How much does Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust give?
- Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust reported 25 grants totaling $4,100,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (16%).
- Who are Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: Texas A&M Foundation ($1.0M), Texas Christian University ($1.0M), Humane Society of North Texas ($880k).
- Does Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Sid W Richardson Foundation, Amon G Carter Foundation.
- Where is Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust based?
- Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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