· Public charity
Fort Worth Promotion and Development Fun
To raise public funds and allocate them to organizations which promote and support the city of fort worth, texas.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of FORT WORTH PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT FUN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $90,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $138,374 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,374 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLIBURN AGENCY LLC | $25,000 |
| E FILMS LLC | $25,000 |
| DECOLONIZING THE MUSIC ROOM | $15,000 |
| FORT WORTH MODERN ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| SINACA STUDIOS | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2019–2024 · $458k
- MAMODERN ART MUSEUM2× · 2022–2023 · $25k
- APAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue -12%
Funded once
- FWFORT WORTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAUgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $113k · revenue +75%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $35k
- DFDOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +197%
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 arts funding
Downtown fort worth, inc. was established to foster, promote, maintain and encourage the civic, social and general welfare of the city of fort worth through the encouragement and promotion of better business and living conditions in…
To act as the voice of business, articulating a business perspective and advocating policies supported by the fort worth general business community.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The fort worth art assocation, a texas non-profit corporation, was established to acquire a collection of works of modern art of the highest quality and to promulgate and maintain a program of art activities and art education in fort…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To operate exclusively for the benefit of the fort worth art association, a sec. 501(c)(3) organization. the foundation is responsible for the administration of the long term investments held for the benefit of the association and its…
Education of children and youth
Public performance of baroque classical music (17th, 18th, and 19th century) using period appropriate instruments.
To produce theatre that entertains, enriches and inspires.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downtown Fort Worth Initiatives Inc and the most unlike its peers is Decolonizing the Music Room. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 30 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 CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds North Texas Healthy Communities ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds STREAMS & VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds DECOLONIZING THE MUSIC ROOM ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MODERN ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds SINACA STUDIOS - SCHOOL OF GLASS AND GALLERY ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Police Officer's Association ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth MedTech Center Inc dba TechFW ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation · McCallum Family Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Fort Worth Promotion and Development Fun 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.