· Private foundation
Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust
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 $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $750k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST | $200,000 |
| NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER | $100,000 |
| AKIBA YAVNEH ACADEMY OF DALLAS | $90,000 |
| DALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATER INC | $75,000 |
| NOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS INC | $70,000 |
| THE DALLAS OPERA | $70,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS | $70,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL OF DALLAS | $60,000 |
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC | $60,000 |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CALLIER CENTER | $50,000 |
| WIPE OUT KIDS CANCER INC | $50,000 |
| TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $710k) 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 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 +28% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- RFRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST6× · 2020–2025 · $620k · revenue +28%
- TNTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER4× · 2020–2025 · $550k · revenue +27%
- DCDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXASone grant, 2024 · $75k
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +4%
- DMDallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -11%
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.
Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and…
Increase community involvement to advance music and art through education events and our TechNotes curriculum, group collaborations, film and instrument competitions, performance jobs, and general public concerts
Dedicated to the development and preservation of the American musical, Lyric Stage is Dallas County's only locally produced, professional musical theater company. The Organization produces world premiere musicals and Off-Broadway…
TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts. TexARTS prepares…
Provide financial support to the dallas opera.
The mission of Uptown Players is to present professional theatre that meets a rising demand in the LGBTQ+ community for audiences to see their life experiences Represented on stage. Our diverse productions represent the LGBTQ+ community…
We are an intimate stage for everyone. Playwrights will invent, artists will risk, and audiences will be immersed in new and familiar plays they can see from all sides. Feel emboldened, entertained and intrigued rediscover and reach for T3.
Providing music education primarily to children, but also to some adults and participating in outreach in the North Texas community.
Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…
To create theater that challenges its audience to think and its artists to grow. We accomplish this by presenting an articulate and compelling product in an intimate setting, creating employment for Houston-based artists, and memorable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadway Dallas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 96 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 RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Be the Difference Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds AKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds MARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds PREMIER LONE STAR WIND ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Broadway Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISTIC TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN DOG THEATER ↗
- Who funds DALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Avant Chamber Ballet Inc ↗
- Who funds UNTHSC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF DALLAS ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Taca Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc · Rea Charitable Trust · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · The Perot Foundation
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 Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.