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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 FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$759M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Kimbell Art Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationScience & TechOther
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 arriving3$10k0%
FY20237$34k57%
FY20225$60k40%
FY20215$209k20%
FY20206$218k50%
FY20196$307k33%
FY20184$85k0%
FY20177$371kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$747kEducation$292kAnimals$250kScience & Tech$1kHousing & Shelter$1kReligion$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($121k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kimbell Art Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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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 16.

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.

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

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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About Kimbell Art Foundation

How much does Kimbell Art Foundation give?
Kimbell Art Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $9,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kimbell Art Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Education (23%), Animals (19%).
Who are Kimbell Art Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art ($610k), The Fort Worth Zoological Association ($250k), Texas Christian University ($160k).
Does Kimbell Art Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kimbell Art Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kimbell Art Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Bnsf Railway Foundation, Alice L Walton Foundation.
Where is Kimbell Art Foundation based?
Kimbell Art Foundation is based in TX.

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 19 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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