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Jonathan P Formanek Foundation at a glance

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Jonathan P Formanek Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$418k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$175k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$163kInternational$50kEducation$46kCivil Rights$25kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $290k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM$175,000
JACOB'S PILLOW$115,000
BRUCE WOODS DANCE$35,000
UNDERMAIN THEATRE$15,000
TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
STAGE WEST THEATRE$15,000
OCHRE HOUSE THEATRE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CHARLES MOORE FOUNDATION$2,500
SOUL REP THEATRE$2,500
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION$2,500
CHAMBER MUSIC INTERNATIONAL$2,500
THE GLASS HOUSE$1,500
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%JACOB'S PILLOW: $115k → 12%FALLINGWATER CONSERVANCY: $10k → 11%FALLINGWATER CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%SEVA FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $10k → 17%JUBLIEE THEATRE: $10k → 11%HOUSING CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 14%KUAF PUBLIC RADIO: $25k → 14%THE GLASS HOUSE: $10k → 9%MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM: $175k → 17%GLOBAL GREEN GRANTS: $10k → 12%FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BLDG CONSERVANCY: $10k → 14%ASHOKA: $10k → 7%HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT: $10k → 9%JACOB'S PILLOW: $83k → 12%VISION TO LEARN: $10k → 14%KUFA PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 14%MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM: $100k → 17%FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST: $10k → 14%THE CONSERVATION FUND: $10k → 7%JACOB'S PILLOW: $50k → 12%HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 17%FORMANEK FOUNDATION: $575k → 17%FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST: $10k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 7%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA: $10k → 17%AMPHIBIAN STAGE PRODUTIONS: $25k → 11%BRUCE WOOD DANCE: $20k → 14%FORMANEK FOUNDATION: $550k → 17%STAGE WEST THEATRE: $25k → 11%AMPHIBIAN STAGE PRODUCTIONS: $25k → 11%UNDERMAIN THEATRE: $25k → 14%STAGE WEST THEATRE: $20k → 11%UNDERMAIN THEATRE: $20k → 14%STAGE WEST THEATRE: $15k → 11%UNDERMAIN THEATRE: $15k → 14%AMPHIBIAN STAGE: $15k → 11%DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: $75k → 14%DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: $50k → 14%DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: $50k → 14%DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE: $50k → 14%KERA: $25k → 14%BRUCE WOOD DANCE: $35k → 14%BRUCE WOODS DANCE: $35k → 14%TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $25k → 14%TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $25k → 14%TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $15k → 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

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 30 repeat orgs$264k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
29

Total granted

$2.5M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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
    FORMANEK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +157%
  • BW
    BRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +26%
  • SW
    STAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • AP
    AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • EI
    EDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +211%
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
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Glasstire

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

Arts & Culture
4
The Cultural Landscape Foundation

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.…

Arts & Culture
5
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
6
The American Institute of Architects

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.

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7
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
8
Dallas Contemporary

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture
10
The Architectural League of New York

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…

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11
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORMANEK FOUNDATION: $1,125,000 · PhilanthropyFORMANEK FOUNDATIONJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $248,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INCDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INCBRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCE WOOD DANCE CO INCUNDERMAIN THEATRE: $80,000 · Arts & CultureUNDERMAIN THEATRESTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureSTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED …NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC+11 more: $118,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreMEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM: $275,000 · OtherMEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherOCHRE HOUSE THEATER: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,500 · Other+26 more: $236,500 · Other+26 moreTURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $65,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR URBAN PEDAGOGY INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentSEVA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $10,000 · InternationalASHOKA: $10,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $10,000 · InternationalGIRLS GARAGE: $3,000 · InternationalTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EducationEDUCATION IS FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationPaul Quinn College: $10,000 · EducationTulsa Foundation for Architecture: $11,500 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$1,125,000Arts & Culture$881,000Other$616,000Environment$100,000International$53,000Education$42,500Public Benefit$11,500

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 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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…Taca IncBen E Keith Foundatio…The Eugene McDermott …Hoblitzelle FoundationRea Charitable TrustTexas Women's Foundat…The Shubert Foundatio…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jonathan P Formanek Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jonathan P Formanek Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Jonathan P Formanek Foundation?

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.

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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