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Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.2M
Granted FY2023
33
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$29MArts & Culture$6.0MEnvironment$3.2MAnimals$2.6MPublic Benefit$1.0MReligion$855kPhilanthropy$778kHuman Services$746kOther$0
02FY2023 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 33 grants below total $8,393,115 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,193,115 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $800,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.8M
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$152M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$2,916,000
EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND, INC.$1,000,000
FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC$1,000,000
ROCKET SHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEXAS$500,000
FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$350,000
BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC$277,779
TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION$276,651
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE$250,000
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE$250,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE$215,000
VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION INC$165,000
FORT WORTH EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC$150,000
NARRATIVE$125,000
HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$100,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$100,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Brighter Outlook Inc: $10k → 11%Brighter Outlook Inc: $5k → 11%Brighter Outlook Inc: $5k → 11%Lena Pope Inc: $172k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

ID
ND
NY
OR
WY
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 17% of Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Educationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$27M · 51 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 33 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
23

Total granted

$27M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+23%

Still filing today

59%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    5× · 2017–2021 · $3.5M · revenue +257%
  • GH
    Great Hearts America-Texas
    5× · 2018–2022 · $3.1M · revenue +413%
  • UE
    UPLIFT EDUCATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2.5M · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • HP
    HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $1.4M · revenue +22%
  • TK
    THE KEY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +19%
  • LP
    LENA POPE HOME INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $172k · revenue +27%

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.

1
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
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Trinity Charter School

The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…

Education
5
Trellis Foundation

We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…

Human Services
6
Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education
7
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.

Education
8
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
9
Fort Worth Academy for the Education of Children and Youth

Education of children and youth

Education
10
South Texas College of Law Houston Inc

South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.

Education
11
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
12
The Holdsworth Center

The organization was established to impact, over time, the quality of pre-k-12 public education for all texas students by supporting and developing educational leaders.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyClassical Music EnsemblesGovernment Accountability R…Developmental Disabilities …Animal Rescue and AdoptionWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Land Conservation Organizat…Food Pantries & AssistanceCommunity FoundationsProfessional Ballet Compani…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child and Family ServicesEducation Equity LeadershipCommunity Arts OrganizationsIndependent K-8 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr16%67%20–35yr10%2%35–55yr13%15%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,743

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.

05the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 90 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
48/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $12,364,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYIDEA Public Schools — $3,543,250 · EducationIDEA Public SchoolsUPLIFT EDUCATION — $2,512,500 · EducationUPLIFT EDUCATIONHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,377,778 · EducationBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $1,066,668 · EducationEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC — $1,000,000 · EducationFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $1,000,000 · Education+16 more — $5,367,592 · Education+16 moreFort Worth Zoo — $2,150,000 · OtherFort Worth ZooTCU School of Music — $1,000,000 · OtherTCU School of MusicIndividual grant recipient — $853,302 · OtherIndividual grant reci…Modern Art Museum — $675,000 · OtherModern Art MuseumTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION — $450,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION — $400,000 · Other+39 more — $3,515,371 · Other+39 moreFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $1,895,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORT…FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $600,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORT…AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART — $600,000 · Arts & CultureAMON CART…Van Cliburn Foundation Inc — $505,000 · Arts & CultureVan Clibu…+7 more — $240,685 · Arts & Culture+7 moreGreat Hearts America-Texas — $3,065,000 · Environment+1 more — $15,000 · EnvironmentCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND — $900,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $590,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $148,000 · PhilanthropySAVING HOPE FOUNDATION — $360,000 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $40,000 · AnimalsTHE IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 · AnimalsTEXAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $350,000 · Community ImprovementWOODSON CENTER — $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Education$28,232,288Other$9,043,673Arts & Culture$3,840,685Environment$3,080,000Philanthropy$1,638,000Animals$425,000Community Improvement$410,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $12,364,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIDEA Public Schools — $3,543,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGreat Hearts America-Texas — $3,065,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION — $2,512,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $1,895,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,377,778 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $1,066,668 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND — $900,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROCKETSHIP EDUCATION — $893,592 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFORT WORTH EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $817,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $600,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART — $600,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $590,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $505,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEXAS — $500,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION — $450,000 over 5y, 94% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $450,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $400,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $375,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSAVING HOPE FOUNDATION — $360,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTEXAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $350,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $276,651 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARDS CENTER INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KEY SCHOOL INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetChildrens Literacy Project Formerly Known as BeUndivided — $250,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLENA POPE HOME INC — $171,766 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $170,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $148,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSTARBOARD FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $72,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWOODSON CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc — $40,685 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBrighter Outlook Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 6.4% 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.

Sid W Richardson FoundationTX44.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · The Roach Foundation Inc · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · R4 Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · The Morris Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax

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 Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 79%
  • Edwards Center Inc79% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education?

Find your warmest path to Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $7.7M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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