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Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust at a glance

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Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
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.

Arts & Culture$4.4MHealth$4.1MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$1.0MHousing & Shelter$600kPhilanthropy$105kEmployment$65kYouth Development$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $750k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS$70,000
THE DALLAS OPERA$70,000
SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL OF DALLAS$60,000
DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC$60,000
TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC$50,000
BE THE DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION$50,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CALLIER CENTER$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC$50,000
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VOGEL ALCOVE: $150k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS: $150k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC: $100k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS: $50k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC: $50k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $50k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $30k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $15k → 14%IT'S A SENSORY WORLD INC: $15k → 14%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 65 repeat orgs$780k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
24

Total granted

$11M
$665k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+4%

Still filing today

82%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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 & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RF
    RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST
    6× · 2020–2025 · $620k · revenue +28%
  • TN
    THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER
    4× · 2020–2025 · $550k · revenue +27%
  • DC
    DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • DM
    Dallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -11%
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
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

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.

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2
Dallas Wind Symphony

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Dallas Chamber Symphony

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

Arts & Culture
4
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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5
Lyric Stage Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
TexArts Association for Visual & Performing Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
7
The Dallas Opera Foundation

Provide financial support to the dallas opera.

Philanthropy
8
Uptown Players Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Theatre Three Inc

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.

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10
Suzuki Institute of Dallas

Providing music education primarily to children, but also to some adults and participating in outreach in the North Texas community.

Arts & Culture
11
Dallas Contemporary

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Main Street Theater Houston

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadway Dallas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
51/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $550,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTERDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INCDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $340,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONDallas Museum of Art: $310,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtBIG THOUGHT: $255,000 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHTTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INCThe Dallas Opera: $235,000 · Arts & CultureThe Dallas OperaPREMIER LONE STAR WIND ORCHESTRA: $180,000 · Arts & CultureBroadway Dallas Inc: $175,000 · Arts & Culture+20 more: $955,500 · Arts & Culture+20 moreUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $1,290,000 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTERSHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL OF DALLAS: $315,000 · OtherSHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL OF DALLASNOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS INC: $195,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS INCFOUNDATION FOR THE CALLIER CENTER: $150,000 · OtherWIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC: $125,000 · OtherAUTISTIC TREATMENT CENTER INC: $125,000 · Other+34 more: $1,312,500 · Other+34 moreRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $620,000 · HealthRETINA FOUNDATION OF…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $325,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCI…Be the Difference Foundation: $275,000 · HealthBe the Difference Fo…MARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $200,000 · HealthMARY CROWLEY MEDICAL…American Heart Association Inc: $150,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Assoc…OPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $115,000 · HealthOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS…THE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE: $105,000 · HealthTexas Health Resources Foundation: $100,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE INC: $90,000 · Health+3 more: $135,000 · Health+3 moreVOGEL ALCOVE: $600,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOV…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $350,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $195,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF MET…+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesAKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY: $230,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University: $150,000 · EducationUNTHSC FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationTORAH DAY SCHOOL OF DALLAS: $75,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationDALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $92,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $210,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$3,650,500Other$3,512,500Health$2,115,000Human Services$1,160,000Education$580,000Philanthropy$292,000Recreation & Sports$210,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $620,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $600,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $550,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $400,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $350,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $340,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $325,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $310,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBe the Difference Foundation: $275,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $255,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Dallas Opera: $235,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAKIBAYAVNEH ACADEMY: $230,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $210,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $195,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPREMIER LONE STAR WIND ORCHESTRA: $180,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc: $175,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC: $125,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetAUTISTIC TREATMENT CENTER INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHEN DOG THEATER: $115,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $115,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE: $105,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetDALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC: $104,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $92,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAvant Chamber Ballet Inc: $88,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetUNTHSC FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTORAH DAY SCHOOL OF DALLAS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS CELLOS: $72,500 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetVERDIGRIS ENSEMBLE INC: $70,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetRICHARDSON SYMPHONY INC: $70,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetJUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD: $70,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRUTLEDGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEnnis Public Theatre: $55,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDRENS CHORUS OF GREATER DALLAS co Dallas Symphony Association INc: $55,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetNorth Texas Performing Arts: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DALLAS CHORAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 2y, 7.2% 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.

  • 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds WIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISTIC TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KITCHEN DOG THEATER ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Dallas FoundationTaca IncThe Eugene McDermott …Hillcrest FoundationThe Addy FoundationDallas Center for the…Rea Charitable TrustBen E Keith Foundatio…Theodore and Beulah B…The Perot Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX62× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 96 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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