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Kimbell Art Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$747kEducation$292kAnimals$250kScience & Tech$1kHousing & Shelter$1kReligion$1k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$759M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Texans For The Arts Foundation$5,000
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra$3,000
Van Cliburn Foundation$1,500
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Architectural League of New York: $20k → 17%University of Texas: $30k → 10%Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: $4k → 11%University of Texas at Dallas: $1k → 14%Angelina College Foundation: $500 → 16%The Cultural Landscape Foundation: $3k → 14%Aspen Center for Physics: $1k → 6%Society of Architectural Historians: $5k → 14%University of Texas: $30k → 10%Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: $3k → 11%Monuments Men and Women Foundation: $50k → 14%The AIA Foundation: $1k → 14%University of Texas: $30k → 10%Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: $3k → 11%University of Texas: $29k → 10%Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: $3k → 11%Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: $3k → 11%Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: $3k → 11%Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: $3k → 11%Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: $3k → 11%Fort Worth Opera: $2k → 11%Van Cliburn Foundation: $2k → 11%Van Cliburn Foundation: $2k → 11%Van Cliburn Foundation: $2k → 11%Van Cliburn Foundation: $2k → 11%Van Cliburn Foundation: $2k → 11%Van Cliburn Foundation: $2k → 11%Van Cliburn Foundation: $2k → 11%St Andrews Anglican Church: $1k → 11%Fort Worth Zoological Association: $250k → 11%Texas Christian University: $45k → 11%Texas Christian University: $45k → 11%Texas Christian University: $45k → 11%Texas Christian University: $15k → 11%Amon Carter Museum of American Art: $210k → 11%Texas Christian University: $5k → 11%Amon Carter Museum of American Art: $200k → 11%Texas Christian University: $5k → 11%Amon Carter Museum of American Art: $200k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$947k · 6 repeat orgs$345k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$947k
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+21%

Still filing today

83%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsScience & TechOther

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

  • AC
    AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART
    3× · 2019–2021 · $610k · revenue +13%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $160k · revenue +60%
  • FW
    FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +3%
  • MM
    MONUMENTS MEN AND WOMEN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +90%
  • TA
    THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
Association for Computing Machinery Inc

We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.

Science & Tech
5
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
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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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Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
9
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
12
The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth Incorporated

To promote and present the highest quality chamber music for our city and region, reflecting innovation, creativity in programming, and selection of superior musical artists. To build an informed audience for chamber music, now and in the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association and the most unlike its peers is Angelina College 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART — $609,693 · Arts & CultureAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ARTMONUMENTS MEN AND WOMEN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMONUMENTS MEN AND WOMEN FOUNDATIONFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $42,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $250,000 · AnimalsTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOG…TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $160,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN…Southern Methodist University — $10,000 · EducationSouthern Method…+2 more — $1,500 · EducationUniversity of Texas — $119,000 · OtherUniversity o…THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK — $20,000 · OtherTHE ARCHITEC…+3 more — $3,000 · OtherASPEN CENTER FOR PHYSICS — $1,000 · Science & Tech
Arts & Culture$727,193Animals$250,000Education$171,500Other$142,000Science & Tech$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART — $609,693 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONUMENTS MEN AND WOMEN FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEXANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 6y, 21% of budgetTHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $10,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR PHYSICS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant County — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngelina College Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Burnett Foundation · The Bratton Family Foundation · Adeline & George McQueen Foundation Xxxxx1007 · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · McCallum Family Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · The Roach Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc

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 Kimbell Art 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.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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