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Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation at a glance

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Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation

Increasing the economic impact and enhancing competitiveness in conventions, meetings, leisure and sports tourism, and increasing toursm-related economic activity.

$491k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.7MEnvironment$60k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $466,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $490,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $406k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH$55,000
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM$45,000
MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH$40,000
PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC$40,000
FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY$40,000
CASA MANANA$40,000
BOTANIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS$36,000
THE CLIBURN$35,000
AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$35,000
TEXAS BALLET THEATER$27,500
STAGE WEST THEATRE$27,500
FORT WORTH OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$15,000
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
SINACA STUDIOS$10,000
AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS$5,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $45k → 11%FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $40k → 11%PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $40k → 11%THE CLIBURN: $35k → 11%THE CLIBURN: $20k → 11%FORT WORTH OPERA: $18k → 11%FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 11%FORT WORTH OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 11%FORT WORTH OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 11%FORT WORTH OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 11%FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 11%FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 11%STAGE WEST THEATRE: $35k → 11%STAGE WEST THEATRE: $28k → 11%ARTES DE LA ROSA: $20k → 11%TEXAS BALLET THEATER: $15k → 11%CASA MANANA: $60k → 11%AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $60k → 11%BRIT: $60k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH: $55k → 11%KIMBELL ART MUSEUM: $51k → 11%BOTANIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS: $50k → 11%AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $50k → 11%FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY: $50k → 11%CASA MANANA: $50k → 11%MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH: $50k → 11%KIMBELL ART MUSEUM: $45k → 11%CASA MANANA: $40k → 11%FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY: $40k → 11%MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH: $40k → 11%KIMBELL ART MUSEUM: $39k → 11%MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH: $37k → 11%BOTANIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS: $36k → 11%AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $35k → 11%AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $30k → 11%AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $30k → 11%KIMBELL ART MUSUEM: $30k → 11%THE MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH: $30k → 11%THE MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH: $30k → 11%KIMBELL ART MUSUEM: $30k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH: $25k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH: $20k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH: $20k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH: $20k → 11%CASA MANANA: $16k → 11%CASA MANANA: $16k → 11%FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $15k → 11%FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $15k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 13 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$1.7M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • TB
    TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $214k · revenue +186%
  • AC
    AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART
    5× · 2021–2025 · $205k · revenue +29%
  • KA
    Kimbell Art Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $195k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • AD
    ARTES DE LA ROSA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -32%
  • TW
    THE WELMAN PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • AC
    Avant Chamber Ballet Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -7%
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
Fort Worth Early Music

Public performance of baroque classical music (17th, 18th, and 19th century) using period appropriate instruments.

Arts & Culture
2
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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3
Opera Southwest

Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
4
The Dallas Opera Foundation

Provide financial support to the dallas opera.

Philanthropy
5
The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Arts & Culture
6
American Baroque Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
7
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra

To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.

Arts & Culture
8
Texas Cultural Trust Council

Public arts funding

Philanthropy
9
Center for Contemporary Arts

The mission is to provide enriching and educational experiences for the communities of the region through the promotion and support of artists.

Arts & Culture
10
Stage West Theatre Formerly Allied Theatre Group Inc

To produce theatre that entertains, enriches and inspires.

Arts & Culture
11
The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth Incorporated

To promote and present the highest quality chamber music for our city and region, reflecting innovation, creativity in programming, and selection of superior musical artists. To build an informed audience for chamber music, now and in the…

—
12
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association; the most unlike its peers is Kimbell Art Foundation. 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

20 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $214,364 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INCAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $205,364 · Arts & CultureAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ARTKimbell Art Foundation: $194,547 · Arts & CultureKimbell Art FoundationFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $186,231 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATIONCASA MANANA INC: $182,274 · Arts & CultureCASA MANANA INCARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INCFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $129,364 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $120,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORYFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $62,864 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $55,361 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $148,440 · Arts & Culture+9 moreBRIT FOUNDATION: $146,364 · EnvironmentBRIT FOUN…
Arts & Culture$1,638,809Environment$146,364

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC: $214,364 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $205,364 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKimbell Art Foundation: $194,547 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: $186,231 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCASA MANANA INC: $182,274 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBRIT FOUNDATION: $146,364 over 3y, 41% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC: $140,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $129,364 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $120,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $62,864 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $55,361 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC: $25,076 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSINACA STUDIOS - SCHOOL OF GLASS AND GALLERY: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetARTES DE LA ROSA INC: $19,864 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE WELMAN PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAvant Chamber Ballet Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCaminos Del Inka Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Arts Council of Fort …Communities Foundatio…Community Foundation …Sid W Richardson Foun…R4 FoundationAnn L Rhodes and Caro…Amon G Carter Foundat…Thomas M Helen McKee …Bnsf Railway Foundati…Fort Worth Promotion …William E Scott Found…Wm & Catherine Bryce …
Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County IncTX26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Sid W Richardson Foundation · R4 Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Amon G Carter Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Fort Worth Promotion and Development Fun · William E Scott Foundation · Wm & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund Xxxxx3001

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 Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    How do I get to Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation 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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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