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Jon and Linda Halbert Family Foundation at a glance

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Jon and Linda Halbert Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Community Improvement$8.1MHuman Services$2.3MPhilanthropy$675kInternational$384kCrime & Legal$206kReligion$135kArts & Culture$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOREST FORWARD$2,305,000
HARBOR FUND$575,000
SIDDHAYATAN TIRTH$125,000
TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER$50,000
PRISON COMMUNITIES INTERNATIONAL$50,000
BRIDGE2RWANDA INC$50,000
DALLAS CONTEMPORARY$15,000
DALLAS FILM SOCIETY$10,000
PAYNE SPRINGS FIRE-RESCUE$5,000
CEDAR CREEK VETERANS FOUNDATION$2,500
OAK CLIFF FILM SOCIETY$2,000
KESSLER NEIGHBORS UNITED$250
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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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $50k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIER PROJECT: $1k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $100k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $1.4M → 14%CITY SQUARE: $762k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IN
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
DC
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 8 repeat orgs$365k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
21

Total granted

$12M
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalReligionOther
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

  • FF
    FOREST FORWARD
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8.1M · revenue +447% · 59% of their budget
  • BI
    BRIDGE2RWANDA INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $350k · revenue +42%
  • RT
    REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $206k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • PP
    PHYSICAL PLANT ARTS
    one grant, 2024 · $80k
  • RF
    RFA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $33k
  • INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +4%
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
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Earth Day Texas Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
4
Denver Film Society

The mission of the denver film society is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. we strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the…

Arts & Culture
5
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Inc

We are a vibrant cultural hub that provides, operates and activates exceptional spaces for artists, artistic organizations and our community.

Philanthropy
6
Downtown Dallas Parks Conservancy
Community Improvement
7
Dallas Center for Photography

Dallas Center for Photography's mission is to serve as a focal point for creators and appreciators of all forms of photography through education, mentorship, exhibitions, and community outreach.

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8
Houston Cinema Arts Society

Houston cinema arts society (hcas) celebrates the vitality of houston by connecting audiences and artists with public, educational, and career-advancing film and arts programming. houston cinema arts society envisions a future where…

Arts & Culture
9
Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation

The dallas tourism public improvement district ("dtpid") is a public improvement district dedicated to improving convention and group hotel bookings and hotel room night consumption in the city of dallas, texas.

Community Improvement
10
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

—
11
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
12
A-Rt Experience

To inspire a more accessible future of art and technology by supporting the voices of todays artists and connecting diverse communities through transformative public art experiences.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harbor Fund Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOREST FORWARD: $8,055,000 · Community ImprovementFOREST FORWARD+1 more: $250 · Community ImprovementCITYSQUARE: $2,273,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE+2 more: $51,366 · Human ServicesHARBOR FUND INC: $675,000 · OtherHARBOR FU…SIDDHAYATAN TIRTH: $125,000 · OtherSIDDHAYAT…PHYSICAL PLANT ARTS: $80,000 · OtherPHYSICAL …PAYNE SPRINGS FIRE-RESCUE: $35,000 · Other+16 more: $63,754 · Other+16 moreBRIDGE2RWANDA INC: $350,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalREHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC: $206,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CONTEMPORARY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS FILM SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCEDAR CREEK VETERANS FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · HealthThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $1,325 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · Health
Community Improvement$8,055,250Human Services$2,324,366Other$978,754International$351,000Arts & Culture$243,000Public Benefit$18,000Health$9,325

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 budgetFOREST FORWARD: $8,055,000 over 5y, 59% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $2,273,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetBRIDGE2RWANDA INC: $350,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetREHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC: $206,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCEDAR CREEK VETERANS FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetDALLAS FILM SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPegasus Media Project: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,366 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $1,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Jon and Linda Halbert Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jon and Linda Halbert Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of 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
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.

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 36 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-PF 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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