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Fifth Avenue Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas Ballet Theater Inc | $10,000 |
| Fort Worth Opera | $10,000 |
| Van Cliburn Foundation | $10,000 |
| Casa Manana | $10,000 |
| Key School | $6,000 |
| Mimir Chamber Music Festival | $5,000 |
| Amphibian Stage Productions | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth | $5,000 |
| Arts Fifth Avenue | $4,000 |
| Ennis Public Theatre | $4,000 |
| Ballet Concerto Inc | $2,500 |
| Spotlight Cast & Crew | $2,000 |
| Imagination Fort Worth | $1,500 |
| Performing Arts Fort Worth | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of your 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.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 10 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 FY2025, 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
- VCVan Cliburn Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +240%
- TBTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +155%
- FWFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2022 · $51k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SBSOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- ACArts Council of Fort Worthone grant, 2021 · $9k
- NCNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +163%
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.
Public performance of baroque classical music (17th, 18th, and 19th century) using period appropriate instruments.
To produce theatre that entertains, enriches and inspires.
Founded in 1993, American Festival for the Arts (AFA) provides high quality community-based music education programs and performance opportunities designed primarily for youth and, through its concert series and outreach, seeks to broaden…
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…
Midland festival ballet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to promote and present the art of classical ballet through education, performance, and outreach.
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
The mission of North Texas Performing Arts is to develop the character of youth through quality performing arts education and family entertainment. Our vision is to make our programs accessible and desirable to our North Texas families.
Provide financial support to the dallas opera.
American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…
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…
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association and the most unlike its peers is Mimir Chamber Music Festival. 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 56 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 38 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 Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA MANANA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds Mimir Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Ennis Public Theatre ↗
- Who funds Ballet Concerto Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds SPOTLIGHT CAST & CREW ↗
- Who funds Multicultural Alliance ↗
- Who funds MAYFEST INC (DBA TRINITY COLLABORATIVE INC) ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CENTER FOR ARTS ACADEMICS ↗
- Who funds Art of Living Inc ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Amon G Carter Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Rea Charitable Trust · Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation · William E Scott Foundation · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust
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 Fifth Avenue 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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