Texas · Private foundation
Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $2.2M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $2.0M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $2.1M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $2.1M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $1.8M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retina Foundation of the Southwest | $620,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Vogel Alcove | $600,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Nasher Sculpture Center | $550,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Dallas Childrens Theater Inc | $400,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Jewish Family Service of Dallas Inc Dba Jewish Family Service | $350,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Dallas Symphony Association | $340,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $325,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dallas Museum of Art | $310,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Be the Difference Foundation | $275,000 | 5 | 24% |
| Big Thought | $255,000 | 6 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust
- How much does Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust give?
- Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust reported 56 grants totaling $2,197,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Health (35%), Education (10%).
- Who are Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Retina Foundation of the Southwest ($620k), Vogel Alcove ($600k), The Nasher Sculpture Center ($550k).
- Does Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation, The Dallas Foundation.
- Where is Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust based?
- Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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