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Fash Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS TRAIL OF FAME | $25,000 |
| CASSATA LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| COOK CHILDRENS HEALTH FDN | $10,000 |
| HOPE FARM | $6,000 |
| UNBOUND FORT WORTH | $5,000 |
| NEW KEY SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND-FT WORTH | $5,000 |
| JAMES L WEST ALZHEIMER CENTER | $5,000 |
| MOTHERS MILK BANK OF NORTH TEXAS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MGMT | $5,000 |
| FORT WORTH AVIATION MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TARRANT CTY | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 9 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 FY2024, 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
- HFHOPE FARM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +104%
- MMMOTHERS MILK BANK OF NORTH TEXAS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +47%
- TCThe Clubhouse for Special NeedsInc4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +251%
Funded once
- DFDOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INCone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -6%
- CFCHILDREN FIRST INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -26%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
Education of children and youth
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.
Downtown fort worth, inc. was established to foster, promote, maintain and encourage the civic, social and general welfare of the city of fort worth through the encouragement and promotion of better business and living conditions in…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
To act as the voice of business, articulating a business perspective and advocating policies supported by the fort worth general business community.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
Through a coordinated community response, the forensic center empowers victims, promotes healing and creates innovative and comprehensive solutions to fill gaps in victim services.
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.
To inspire and influence the culture in Fort Worth by joyfully engaging our students with the classics, which are the foundation of Western civilization and point to the most important historical even of humanity, the Incarnation of our…
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
With more than 1 million visitors annually, the fort worth zoo strengthens the bond between humans and the environment by promoting responsible stewardship of wildlife and ensuring diverse, high-quality educational and entertaining family…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of Fort Worth and the most unlike its peers is Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 72 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 TEXAS TRAIL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS MILK BANK OF NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW KEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UnBound North Texas ↗
- Who funds The Clubhouse for Special NeedsInc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Innocence Project of Texas ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKEN BABY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Children At Risk ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MID-CITIES CARE CORPS ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds Wings of a Butterfly ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORT WORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
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 · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes
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 Fash 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.
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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