· Private foundation
Don Looney Charitable Trust Fd028
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER TARRANT CO | $25,000 |
| ALL SAINTS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW | $8,500 |
| ACADEMY 4 | $5,000 |
| HILL SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JAMES L WEST ALZHEIMER CENTER | $5,000 |
| W I COOK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| THE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FORT WORTH TEEN CHALLENGE | $2,500 |
| IMAGINATION FORT WORTH | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- SCSPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +43%
- TATEXAS ACADEMY 45× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +210%
- ASAll Saints Health Foundation2× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- MVMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +114%
- SASIXTY AND BETTER INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -80%
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +4%
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.
Education of children and youth
To improve the quality of life and outcomes of adolescent and young adults with cancer by enabling the healthcare community, empowering patients and raising awareness.
The mission of read fort worth is to ensure that all students in the city of fort worth, texas read on grade level by third grade. they believe that this will equip the students on the path to success in school and in life. the officers…
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
Provide artistic training and college preparatory education by establishing, supporting and operating our charter schools, the texas boys choir, and other artistic programs, which are designed to foster a lifelong passion for artistic and…
At fort worth colonial charities, we are dedicated to empowering the next generation through innovative educational, athletic, and enrichment programs supported by our investment. we believe in fostering not just skills, but confidence and…
Public arts funding
The mission of fort worth country day school is to foster the intellectual, physical, emotional and ethical development of capable students through an academically rigorous college preparatory program that integrates the arts and athletics.
Hill school is committed to helping children achieve success in the learning process, both at hill school and in future school settings.
Christian Youth Theater develops character and creativity in kids of all ages through quality theater arts training that brings families and communities together. Cyt is an after school theater arts program for students ages 4-8. Each…
To produce theatre that entertains, enriches and inspires.
School's mission is to help establish basic skills through teaching methods that enhance a child's joy in learning, ability to learn, and interest in learning while fostering the child's self-confidence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Imagination Fort Worth and the most unlike its peers is Texas Christian University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ACADEMY 4 ↗
- Who funds WI Cook Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds All Saints Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS WHO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds SIXTY AND BETTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RUTLEDGE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA MANANA INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Works For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · The Roach Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · R4 Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Fort Worth Colonial Charities Inc (Fka Bfc Colonial Inc)
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 Don Looney Charitable Trust Fd028 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.
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.