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Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.3MEnvironment$231kArts & Culture$191kRecreation & Sports$154kEducation$56kHealth$40kPublic Benefit$25kScience & Tech$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
ARTWORKS FOUNDATION$2,500
ENTRADA$575
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 4% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CREATIVE VISIONS: $8k → 14%LANDMARKS: $20k → 10%ACH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 11%BIG BEND CONSERVANCY: $5k → 14%CONGREGATION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE: $3k → 16%ARTWORKS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%COLORADO FOURTEENER INITIATIVE: $35k → 7%CHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND COLORADO: $10k → 12%NEW HAMPSHIRE AUDUBON: $4k → 7%MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY: $25k → 17%LANDMARKS - UT AUSTIN: $10k → 10%NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 11%BIG BEND CONSERVANCY: $5k → 14%CONGREGATION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE: $3k → 16%COLORADO FOURTEENER INITIATIVE: $15k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE AUDUBON: $3k → 7%YMCA: $80k → 11%COLORADO FOURTEENER INITIATIVE: $11k → 7%CENTRAL COLORADO CONSERVANCY: $38k → 10%NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MEDICAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL UC: $5k → 16%GUIDESTONE: $7k → 10%THE CLIBURN: $10k → 11%SALIDA CONCERTS INC: $5k → 10%THE CLIBURN: $10k → 11%SALIDA CONCERTS INC: $3k → 10%NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS COUNCIL: $30k → 11%CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS COUNCIL: $25k → 11%CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS COUNCIL: $5k → 11%CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS COUNCIL: $3k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE FORT WORTH NATURE CENTER: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE FORT WORTH NATURE CENTER: $3k → 11%ST STEPHEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 11%NEAR SOUTHSIDE INC: $50k → 11%DROWNING PREVENTION COUNCIL: $8k → 11%THE CLIBURN: $25k → 11%FORT WORTH REPORT: $25k → 11%AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10k → 11%AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10k → 11%AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10k → 11%BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS: $7k → 11%BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS: $6k → 11%FORT WORTH GARDEN CLUB: $4k → 11%JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH: $3k → 11%BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS: $3k → 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 28% of Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation’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.

Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$495k · 26 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
31

Total granted

$495k
$311k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+50%

Still filing today

73%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationOther

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

  • CF
    COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE
    3× · 2018–2022 · $61k · revenue +35%
  • VC
    Van Cliburn Foundation Inc
    3× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +240%
  • AC
    AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART
    5× · 2017–2022 · $33k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2022 · $80k
  • NS
    NEAR SOUTHSIDE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • CC
    Central Colorado Conservacygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue +160%

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
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
2
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…

Environment
3
San Isabel Land Protection Trust

The principal mission of the land trust is to work with landowners to protect agricultural and forest lands, water resources, wildlife habitat and scenic open spaces, and to serve our community by facilitating parks and trail in custer,…

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4
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
5
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts

To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.

Environment
6
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
7
Rocky Mountain Field Institute Inc

Rocky Mountain Field Institute conserves and protects public lands in Southern Colorado through volunteer-based trail and restoration projects, environmental education, and restoration research.

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8
San Juan Mountains Association

To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.

Environment
9
The Colorado Trail Foundation

To provide, improve, and maintain, through voluntary public involvement and in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, a linear, non-motorized, sustainable, scenic, recreation trail corridor for hikers,…

Recreation & Sports
10
Santa Fe Conservation Trust

The santa fe conservation trust partners with our community to keep northern new mexico's living lands and people flourishing together. we protect culturally and environmentally significant landscapes, ignite people's passion for nature…

Environment
11
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…

Environment
12
Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect and enhance agricultural land, wildlife habitat and scenic lands in western colorado to benefit the community at large, enrich lives, and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation for future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Big Bend National Park and the most unlike its peers is Moab Valley Multicultural Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr17%11%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr9%34%35–55yr11%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%3%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr9%80%35–55yr11%6%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
17%
6,497/37,795

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

39 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. 39 of the 62 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $1,229,600 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX+4 more — $33,675 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient — $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYMCA — $80,000 · OtherYMCACAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS COUNCIL — $66,250 · OtherCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS COUNC…NEAR SOUTHSIDE INC — $50,000 · OtherNEAR SOUTHSIDE INCSCENIC TEXAS — $25,000 · OtherLANDMARKS — $20,000 · OtherBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC — $21,250 · Other+30 more — $149,525 · Other+30 moreVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $45,300 · Arts & CultureCentral Colorado Conservacy — $37,500 · Arts & CultureAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART — $33,425 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $4,350 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE — $61,000 · Recreation & SportsCOWTOWN MARATHON INC — $9,000 · Recreation & SportsFORT WORTH TENNIS PATRONS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $2,200 · Recreation & SportsMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentGuidestone — $6,500 · EnvironmentFort Worth Garden Club Inc — $3,500 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $2,000 · EnvironmentSalida Mountain Trails — $2,000 · Environment+2 more — $2,050 · EnvironmentAbilene Education Foundation — $40,000 · EducationFORT WORTH REPORT — $25,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$1,263,275Other$497,025Arts & Culture$120,575Recreation & Sports$79,700Environment$41,050Education$40,000Public Benefit$25,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $1,229,600 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE — $61,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $45,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAbilene Education Foundation — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Colorado Conservacy — $37,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART — $33,425 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH REPORT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCENIC TEXAS — $25,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC — $21,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHAFFEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK — $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSALIDA CONCERTS INC — $9,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetMEDICAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL US — $9,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOWTOWN MARATHON INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FORT WORTH NATURE CENTER & REFUGE INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFORT WORTH TENNIS PATRONS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetGuidestone — $6,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPAY NEUTER NETWORK — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST — $3,675 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFort Worth Garden Club Inc — $3,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARTWORKS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRico Trails Alliance — $2,200 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalida Mountain Trails — $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetART LIBRARIES SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSalida Area Parks Open Space & Trails — $1,050 over 1y, 12% of budgetMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS OUTREACH CENTER — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Fort Worth Inc — $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARK-VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 …Amon G Carter Foundat…The Roach Foundation …Community Foundation …Bnsf Railway Foundati…Communities Foundatio…Chaffee County Commun…Garvey Texas Foundati…Texas Instruments Fou…Colorado Gives Founda…Terrell and Patsy Sma…Robert D and Catherin…
Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 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 · Amon G Carter Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Chaffee County Community Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Terrell and Patsy Small Family Foundation · Robert D and Catherine R Alexander 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 Meta Alice Keith Bratten 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Meta Alice Keith Bratten 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 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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