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Fort Worth Education Partnership Inc

We believe that every fort worth area student deserves the opportunity to have access to high-quality education.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$6.2MEnvironment$851kInternational$750kArts & Culture$260kPhilanthropy$50kReligion$20k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $627k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS$1,000,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$750,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION$748,117
FORT WORTH ISD$227,000
HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS$100,000
TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NT$50,412
THE EDUCATOR COLLECTIVE$20,000
UPLIFT EDUCATION$16,000
BRAVER TOGETHER$15,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$10,700
FOUND FOR THE YOUNG WOMENS$7,500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMIES: $500k → 7%ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1.0M → 7%LINCOLN NETWORK: $20k → 10%LATINO ED EQUITY PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $100k → 8%BRAVER TOGETHER: $15k → 11%THE EDUCATOR COLLECTIVE: $20k → 14%ROCKETSHIP TEXAS: $23k → 16%HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $150k → 16%NEW VENTURE FUND: $521k → 14%GLOBAL IMPACT: $750k → 9%PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMIES: $225k → 7%ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $228k → 7%LATINO ED EQUITY PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 20%RESPONSIVE ED USA: $375k → 8%ILLUMINATION EDUCATION: $875k → 11%THE EDUCATOR COLLECTIVE: $20k → 14%GOOD REASON HOUSTON: $130k → 16%NEW VENTURE FUND: $450k → 14%RESPONSIVE ED USA: $139k → 8%BRAVER TOGETHER: $15k → 11%RISING STAR BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 14%GOOD REASON HOUSTON: $15k → 16%NEW VENTURE FUND: $320k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NT: $50k → 11%RISING STAR BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 14%NEW VENTURE FUND: $11k → 14%T3 PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%LEADERSHIP ISD: $50k → 14%FOUND FOR THE YOUNG WOMENS: $8k → 11%UPLIFT EDUCATION: $16k → 14%APPLIED LEARNING NETWORK: $10k → 11%RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL: $11k → 11%TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%ACA OF VISUAL & PERFORMING: $260k → 11%FORT WORTH ISD: $227k → 11%FORT WORTH ISD: $110k → 11%FORT WORTH ISD: $110k → 11%LENA POPECHAPEL HILL ACADEMY: $25k → 11%TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 11%FORT WORTH ISD: $23k → 11%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 11 repeat orgs$728k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$5.3M
$354k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+31%

Still filing today

82%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +48%
  • TT
    TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $863k · revenue +68%
  • PL
    PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $725k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +13%
  • LI
    LEADERSHIP ISD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • CH
    CHAPEL HILL ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +45%
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 Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
2
Elevate Collegiate Inc dba Elevate Collegiate Charter School

To equip all students with the academic knowledge and character development necessary to set forth confidently on the path to college and life filled with success.

Education
3
The Fay School

See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…

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4
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
5
Valor Texas Education Foundation

Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…

Education
6
The Awty International School

See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…

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7
The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…

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8
El Paso Leadership Academy

The mission of El Paso Leadership Academy is to prepare its students to obtain a four year college degree and to become engaged leaders in their community.

Education
9
The Teaching Trust

Teaching trust is a leadership development organization that delivers practice-based training and coaching to school leaders and school leadership teams to accelerate systemic and sustained change in schools and across school districts.

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10
Great Hearts America-Texas

The primary goal of Great Hearts America-Texas is to graduate thoughtful leaders of character who will contribute to a more philosophical, humane, and just society.

Environment
11
Fort Worth Education Partnership Inc

We believe that every fort worth area student deserves the opportunity to have access to high-quality education. in pursuit of this, fort worth education partnership's mission is to support, invest in, and coordinate opportunities that…

Education
12
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocketship Education; the most unlike its peers is Braver Together Tarrant. 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

23 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. 23 of the 27 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION: $1,227,831 · EducationROCKETSHIP EDUCATIONIllumination Education Inc: $1,135,000 · EducationIllumination Education IncTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $863,003 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INCPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA: $725,000 · EducationPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANARESPONSIVEED TEXAS: $514,448 · EducationRESPONSIVEED TEXASTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · Education+9 more: $642,656 · Education+9 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,301,280 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDGlobal Impact: $750,000 · InternationalGlobal Imp…FORT WORTH ISD: $470,000 · OtherFORT WORT…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSIT…LEADERSHIP ISD INC: $50,000 · OtherLEADERSHI…CHAPEL HILL ACADEMY: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $30,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $50,412 · PhilanthropyBRAVER TOGETHER TARRANT: $30,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION: $20,000 · HealthFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER: $15,000 · Youth Development
Education$5,307,938Environment$1,301,280International$750,000Other$675,000Philanthropy$50,412Community Improvement$30,000Health$20,000Youth Development$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,301,280 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROCKETSHIP EDUCATION: $1,227,831 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIllumination Education Inc: $1,135,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $863,003 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGlobal Impact: $750,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA: $725,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRESPONSIVEED TEXAS: $514,448 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO EDUCATIONAL EQUITY: $150,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Reason Houston Inc: $145,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $50,412 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP ISD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetThe Educator Collective: $40,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBRAVER TOGETHER TARRANT: $30,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCHAPEL HILL ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $10,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

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.

Sid W Richardson Foun…Communities Foundatio…Community Foundation …Kleinheinz Family Fou…Rainwater Charitable …Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Walton Family Foundat…Helen Irwin Littauer …City Fund50can IncUnited Way of Tarrant…Houston Endowment Inc
Sid W Richardson FoundationTX21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sid W Richardson Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · City Fund · 50can Inc · United Way of Tarrant County · Houston Endowment Inc

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 Fort Worth Education Partnership Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fort Worth Education Partnership Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Fort Worth Education Partnership Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 27 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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