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Cutrona Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$179kReligion$32kFood & Nutrition$31kInternational$24kPhilanthropy$13kHuman Services$11kHealth$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,953
Median grant
4
States reached
$833k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TCU Starpoint School Endowment$25,000
Kerrville Community Foundation$10,000
Snack Friends Inc$5,350
Individual grant recipient$3,500
Alaska Mission and Retreats$2,953
Villanova University$2,250
Individual grant recipient$1,473
Adera Foundation$1,200
N TX Community Foundation$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
NY
OH
PA
CA
VA
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$243k · 16 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
26

Total granted

$243k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+3%

Still filing today

38%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthReligionInternationalEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TV
    TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +39%
  • AF
    ADERA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +96%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • TC
    Texas Christian University Starpoint School
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • LL
    LOVERS LANE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
  • JA
    John Archer Fagin WTC Memorial Schl
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
Altarum Institute

Altarum is focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system. we drive impactful changes in four domains: 1) transform health service delivery - we work…

Science & Tech
5
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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6
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
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
Whitworth University

Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.

Education
11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alaska Missions & Retreats. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TCU Starpoint School Endowment: $117,570 · OtherTCU Starpoint School EndowmentTexas Christian University Starpoint School: $15,000 · OtherTexas Christian University Starpoint SchoolSnack Friends Inc: $14,857 · OtherSnack Friends IncIndividual grant recipient: $14,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientColinas Way Food Ministry: $11,000 · OtherLOVERS LANE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $11,000 · OtherTarrant County Area Food Bank: $10,000 · OtherKerrville Community Foundation: $10,000 · OtherJohn Archer Fagin WTC Memorial Schl: $10,000 · Other+25 more: $24,640 · Other+25 moreTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $30,500 · EducationTRINITY VALL…VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $3,700 · EducationVILLANOVA UN…ADERA FOUNDATION: $24,113 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS NORTH TEXAS: $1,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $52 · HealthWEST FORT WORTH CENTER OF HOPE INC: $3,000 · ReligionAlaska Missions & Retreats: $2,953 · ReligionBIG HEART MINISTRIES: $1,000 · ReligionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$238,667Education$34,200International$25,113Health$8,052Religion$6,953Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $30,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADERA FOUNDATION: $24,113 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWEST FORT WORTH CENTER OF HOPE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAlaska Missions & Retreats: $2,953 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $1,549 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG HEART MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEASTER SEALS NORTH TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ADERA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WEST FORT WORTH CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Missions & Retreats ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
  • Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds BIG HEART MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS NORTH TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗

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 FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 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 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cutrona Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cutrona Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 47 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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