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Don Looney Charitable Trust Fd028 at a glance

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Don Looney Charitable Trust Fd028

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$121kHealth$90kEducation$66kArts & Culture$45kHuman Services$39kReligion$20k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER TARRANT CO$25,000
ALL SAINTS HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW$8,500
HILL SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
ACADEMY 4$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SIXTY AND BETTER INC: $5k → 11%CHRISTIANWORKS FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 14%MHMR VISIONS: $10k → 11%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 17 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$316k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+20%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SC
    SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW
    4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +43%
  • TA
    TEXAS ACADEMY 4
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +210%
  • AS
    All Saints Health Foundation
    2× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • MV
    MHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +114%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +4%
  • SA
    SIXTY AND BETTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -83%
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
Fort Worth Academy for the Education of Children and Youth

Education of children and youth

Education
2
Fort Worth Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Coalition

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.

Health
3
Read Fort Worth

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…

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4
The Woodlands Christian Academy

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…

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5
Texas Center for Arts Academics

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Fort Worth Colonial Charities Inc (Fka Bfc Colonial Inc)

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…

Unclassified
7
Texas Cultural Trust Council

Public arts funding

Philanthropy
8
Fort Worth Country Day School Inc

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.

Education
9
The Hill School of Fort Worth Inc

Hill school is committed to helping children achieve success in the learning process, both at hill school and in future school settings.

Education
10
Cyt Dallas-Fort Worth Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Stage West Theatre Formerly Allied Theatre Group Inc

To produce theatre that entertains, enriches and inspires.

Arts & Culture
12
Texas Foundation for Educational Advancement Inc dba the Da Vinci School

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Imagination Fort Worth; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 25 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS&GIRLS CLUBOF GREATER TARRANTCO: $65,000 · OtherBOYS&GIRLS CLUBOF GREATER TARRANTCOJAMES L WEST ALZHEIMER CENTER: $35,000 · OtherJAMES L WEST ALZHEIMER CENTERTHE HILL SCHOOL: $28,000 · OtherTHE HILL SCHOOLBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER TARRANT CO: $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER TARRANT COBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTS: $15,000 · OtherBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE ALL SAINTSKIDS WHO CARE INC: $11,000 · OtherKIDS WHO CARE INCTHE WARM PLACE: $10,000 · OtherFort Worth Teen Challenge Inc: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherWI Cook Foundation Inc: $25,000 · HealthWI Cook Founda…All Saints Health Foundation: $18,000 · HealthAll Saints Hea…RUTLEDGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthRUTLEDGE CANCE…SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW: $28,000 · Arts & CultureSPOTLIGHT CAS…YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH: $7,500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ORCHEST…IMAGINATION FORT WORTH: $6,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINATION F…CASA MANANA INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCASA MANANA I…TEXAS ACADEMY 4: $25,000 · Membership BenefitGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $11,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationHILL SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesSIXTY AND BETTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesChristian Works For Children Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS: $7,500 · Youth Development
Other$199,000Health$47,000Arts & Culture$44,500Membership Benefit$25,000Education$21,000Human Services$17,500Recreation & Sports$12,500Youth Development$7,500

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 budgetSPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW: $28,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS ACADEMY 4: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS WHO CARE INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFort Worth Teen Challenge Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIMAGINATION FORT WORTH: $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILL SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSIXTY AND BETTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRUTLEDGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCASA MANANA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Works For Children Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Thomas M Helen McKee …The Roach Foundation …Community Foundation …Garvey Texas Foundati…Communities Foundatio…Amon G Carter Foundat…Amon G Carter-Star Te…Mary Potishman Lard T…R4 FoundationSid W Richardson Foun…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Fort Worth Colonial C…
Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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)

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 Don Looney Charitable Trust Fd028 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don Looney Charitable Trust Fd028. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 25 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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