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Jonathan P Formanek Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$418k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$175,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 48
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$9.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Jonathan P Formanek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentEducationPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$418k16%
FY202332$511k22%
FY202248$568k85%
FY20219$670k33%
FY20208$633kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$163kInternational$50kEducation$46kCivil Rights$25kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
OK
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($559k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jonathan P Formanek Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFormanek Foundation: $1,125,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetJacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: $248,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDallas Black Dance Theatre Inc: $225,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBruce Wood Dance Co Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetUndermain Theatre: $80,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetStage West Theatre Formerly Allied Theatre Group Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTurtle Creek Conservancy: $65,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNorth Texas Public Broadcasting Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmphibian Productions Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFrank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFrank Lloyd Wright Trust: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCharles W Moore Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTulsa Foundation for Architecture: $11,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEducation Is Freedom Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHome Point: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSeva Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelen Keller International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHimalayan Cataract Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVision to Learn: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAshoka: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Design-Atlanta Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaul Quinn College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChamber Music International Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVickery Meadow Neighborhood Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCenter for Land Use Interpretation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetStorefront for Art and Architecture Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGraycliff Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Center for Urban Pedagogy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDallas Architecture Forum: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGirls Garage: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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 Foundation of Texas IncTX26.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Taca Inc · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Rea Charitable Trust · Texas Women's Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

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Find your warmest path to Jonathan P Formanek Foundation 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.

About Jonathan P Formanek Foundation

How much does Jonathan P Formanek Foundation give?
Jonathan P Formanek Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $417,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 48 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Jonathan P Formanek Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Philanthropy (40%), Environment (6%).
Who are Jonathan P Formanek Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Formanek Foundation ($1.1M), Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc ($248k), Dallas Black Dance Theatre Inc ($225k).
Does Jonathan P Formanek Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jonathan P Formanek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jonathan P Formanek Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation.
Where is Jonathan P Formanek Foundation based?
Jonathan P Formanek Foundation is based in TN.

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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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