· Private foundation
Jonathan P Formanek Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM | $175,000 |
| JACOB'S PILLOW | $115,000 |
| BRUCE WOODS DANCE | $35,000 |
| STAGE WEST THEATRE | $15,000 |
| UNDERMAIN THEATRE | $15,000 |
| TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OCHRE HOUSE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| SOUL REP THEATRE | $2,500 |
| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHARLES MOORE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE GLASS HOUSE | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- FFFORMANEK FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +157%
- BWBRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +26%
- SWSTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- APAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +1%
- SFSEVA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -11%
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
A non-profit established in 1998, the cultural landscape foundation (tclf) connects people to places. tclf educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Vision: drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism.mission: aia inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Formanek Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 64 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 FORMANEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERMAIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds STAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BUILDING CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST ↗
- Who funds Charles W Moore Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Foundation for Architecture ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DESIGN-ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds HOME POINT ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
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 · 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
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 Jonathan P Formanek Foundation 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.
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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