· Private foundation
Jackson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Colorado State University - ROTC | $5,000 |
| North Central TX Civic Ballet | $4,000 |
| Community Prep School | $3,000 |
| Amos House | $3,000 |
| Salvation Army of North Texas | $2,000 |
| Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra | $2,000 |
| The Warm Place | $2,000 |
| United Service Organization | $2,000 |
| St Martins Church | $2,000 |
| Cooks Childrens Foundation | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County | $1,500 |
| Casa Manana | $1,500 |
| The Alamo Foundation | $1,036 |
| Washington on the Brazos | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.
56 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FWFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +1%
- TATarrant Area Food Bank6× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +90%
- AHAMOS HOUSE5× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- NCNorth Central Civic Balletone grant, 2022 · $4k
- UUSOone grant, 2020 · $4k
- IFIntrepad Fallen Heroes Fdone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.
The organization is to be operated exclusively to preserve and restore the alamo complex and to educate and inspire visitors on the history of all those who lived, fought, and died there.
The sixth floor museum at dealey plaza chronicles the assassination and legacy of president john f. kennedy; interprets the dealey plaza national historic landmark district and the john f. kennedy memorial plaza; and presents contemporary…
The purpose of the society is to institute and encourage historical inquiry, to collect, preserve and exhibit the materials of history and to spread historical information, especially concerning the city of dallas, texas; the county of…
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Educational and cultural center to enrich lives through collection, study, exhibition, interpretation and celebration of visual arts.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 69 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 Operation Helping Hand Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CASA MANANA INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE INTERCOMMUNITY AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Historic Fort Worth Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORT WORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRAIL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association ↗
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 · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Fash Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation · Kenneth and Cherrie Garrett Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jackson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jackson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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