· Private foundation
Fifth Avenue Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Van Cliburn Foundation | $10,000 |
| Casa Manana | $10,000 |
| Texas Ballet Theater Inc | $10,000 |
| Fort Worth Opera | $10,000 |
| Key School | $6,000 |
| Amphibian Stage Productions | $5,000 |
| Mimir Chamber Music Festival | $5,000 |
| Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Ennis Public Theatre | $4,000 |
| Arts Fifth Avenue | $4,000 |
| Ballet Concerto Inc | $2,500 |
| Spotlight Cast & Crew | $2,000 |
| Imagination Fort Worth | $1,500 |
| Performing Arts Fort Worth | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- THTHE HILL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -17%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 THE HILL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHAMBER SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Art of Living Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CENTER FOR ARTS ACADEMICS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fifth Avenue Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fifth Avenue Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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