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Norman M Kronick Fort Worth 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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Housing & Shelter$6.4MFood & Nutrition$1.9MHuman Services$1.4MHealth$881kReligion$225kEducation$60kYouth Development$25kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $362k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fort Worth Housing Solutions$500,000
Recovery Resource Council$250,000
Tarrant Area Food Bank$250,000
Presbyterian Night Shelter$215,000
The Heights Ellis Co Family Resourc$200,000
Tarrant County Hands of Hope$110,000
Christs Haven for Children$110,000
Cindy Ramsey Center$100,000
Catholic Charities Forth Worth$100,000
Arlington Life Shelter$100,000
Freedom House$100,000
Arlington Urban Ministries$100,000
Community Caring Center$100,000
Harvesting in Mansfield Food Bank$75,000
TRAC$75,000
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 (FY22–24, $933k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Freedom House: $100k → 8%Gladney Center for Adoption: $10k → 11%Parker County Center of Hope: $50k → 8%Gladney Center for Adoption: $10k → 11%Parker County Center of Hope: $30k → 8%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $3k → 11%CITY SQUARE: $100k → 14%FORT WORTH HOPE CENTER: $50k → 11%Fort Worth HOPE Center: $50k → 11%Fort Worth HOPE Center: $25k → 11%Hope Supply Co: $10k → 14%Hope Supply Co: $10k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $5k → 14%6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $15k → 11%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $50k → 11%United Community Centers Inc: $25k → 11%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $30k → 11%Mission Central Metroplex: $50k → 11%MISSION CENTRAL MTTROPLEX: $45k → 11%6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $15k → 11%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER: $30k → 11%Community Enrichment Center: $15k → 11%Northside Inter-Community Agency: $25k → 11%Northside Inter Community Agenc: $10k → 11%Tarrant County Hands of Hope: $110k → 11%WestAid: $25k → 11%WestAid: $20k → 11%WEST AID: $15k → 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.6M · 26 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
22

Total granted

$8.6M
$842k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-12%

Still filing today

88%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionReligionHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TP
    THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +41%
  • TA
    Tarrant Area Food Bank
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +9%
  • RR
    Recovery Resource Council
    3× · 2022–2024 · $630k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • NT
    NORTH TX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • C
    CITYSQUARE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -56%
  • GO
    GOODWILL OF N CENTRAL TX
    one grant, 2022 · $54k

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
Restoration Center

Restoration Centers mission is to minister to the physical and spiritual needs of individuals in the community of west Fort Worth. Restoration Center provides food clothes and other necessities to people in need.

Religion
2
Eastside Ministries of Ft Worth

As a 501 (c) 3 organization that was incorporated in 1981 to provide free food and clothing to unhoused and underserved individuals and families on the east side of Fort Worth without discrimination.

Human Services
3
Housing Opportunities of Fort Worth

Housing counseling services.

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4
Katy Christian Ministries

See Schedule O.Katy Christian Ministries (KCM) is a social service non-profit that serves the Katy/West Houston area. KCM's Social Service Department offers emergency financial assistance, a Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the…

Human Services
5
Hearts Full of Love

to share Jesus with those we minister to regardless of social status by first meeting their physical needs and, through that relationship, meeting their spiritual needs.

Human Services
6
Target Hunger Inc

The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…

Human Services
7
North Dallas Food Pantry

North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.

Human Services
8
Your Harvest House

Harvest House exists to restore hope and dignity by equipping families to overcome crisis and build long-term stability. We do this by pairing practical resources with relational support and spiritual encouragement, so help becomes lasting…

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9
Gods Pantry

God's Pantry exists to extend a helping hand, to the needy, by providing food to anyone who is facing circumstances beyond their control. The pantry serves all people, with respect and compassion, allowing them to maintain their…

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
11
Community Lifeline Center

Community lifeline center envisions a community where all of our neighbors are provided resources to overcome temporary adversity. we can achieve this vision by focusing on our mission to provide residents of collin county with basic…

Human Services
12
Under the Bridge Ministries Inc

We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom House and the most unlike its peers is Tarrant County Hands of Hope. 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 backsteadyFamily Support and Crisis S…Social Services & SupportCommunity Support ServicesMedical Research and Health…Health & Human ServicesK-12 Educational Support
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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr17%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr9%32%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr17%1%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr9%75%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 26% 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%0/43
the rest of the field
17%
4,114/23,915

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 68 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
19/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $4,519,001 · Housing & ShelterTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTYARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER — $205,000 · Housing & ShelterTarrant Area Food Bank — $1,200,000 · OtherTarrant Area Food BankRecovery Resource Council — $630,000 · OtherRecovery Resource CouncilFort Worth Housing Solutions — $500,000 · OtherFort Worth Housing SolutionsNORTH TX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherNORTH TX COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONThe Heights Ellis Co Family Resourc — $200,000 · OtherChrist's Haven for Children Inc — $175,000 · OtherSamaritan House — $150,000 · Other+34 more — $1,216,000 · Other+34 moreFORT WORTH HOPE CENTER THE HOPE CENTER — $125,000 · Human ServicesFORT WORT…TARRANT COUNTY HANDS OF HOPE — $110,000 · Human ServicesTARRANT C…CITYSQUARE — $100,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUAR…FREEDOM HOUSE — $100,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM H…Mission Central Metroplex Inc — $95,000 · Human ServicesMission C…PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesPARKER CO…SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $80,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN…WESTAID — $60,000 · Human ServicesWESTAIDCOMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE INTERCOMMUNITY AGENCY INC — $35,000 · Human Services+4 more — $102,500 · Human Services+4 moreCOMMUNITY LINK MISSION INC — $225,000 · Food & NutritionHelp Out Center Inc — $100,000 · Food & NutritionHIM Food Bank Inc — $75,000 · Food & NutritionCUISINE FOR HEALING — $65,000 · Food & NutritionArlington Urban Ministries — $220,000 · ReligionWEST FORT WORTH CENTER OF HOPE INC — $50,000 · Religion+1 more — $5,000 · ReligionWI Cook Foundation Inc — $195,000 · HealthSIMPLY GRACE — $36,000 · HealthAIDS OUTREACH CENTER — $10,000 · HealthARLINGTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Housing & Shelter$4,724,001Other$4,321,000Human Services$932,500Food & Nutrition$465,000Religion$275,000Health$241,000Philanthropy$50,000

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 PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $4,519,001 over 5y, 13% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $1,200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRecovery Resource Council — $630,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINK MISSION INC — $225,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetArlington Urban Ministries — $220,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER — $205,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc — $195,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChrist's Haven for Children Inc — $175,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFORT WORTH HOPE CENTER THE HOPE CENTER — $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTARRANT COUNTY HANDS OF HOPE — $110,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCITYSQUARE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE — $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION — $100,000 over 3y, 85% of budgetHelp Out Center Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMission Central Metroplex Inc — $95,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC — $80,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHIM Food Bank Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCUISINE FOR HEALING — $65,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetWESTAID — $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST FORT WORTH CENTER OF HOPE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetARLINGTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSIMPLY GRACE — $36,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE INTERCOMMUNITY AGENCY INC — $35,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budget6 STONES MISSION NETWORK — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LADDER ALLIANCE — $27,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFORTRESS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFossil Creek Community Development Center — $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAIDS OUTREACH CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Survivors of Torture — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMANSFIELD MISSON CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Communities Foundatio…Community Foundation …Thomas M Helen McKee …United Way of Tarrant…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Sid W Richardson Foun…America's CharitiesKen W Davis FoundationThe Fort Worth Founda…Amon G Carter Foundat…Textron Charitable Tr…The Ninnie L Baird Fo…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX47.3× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · United Way of Tarrant County · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · America's Charities · Ken W Davis Foundation · The Fort Worth Foundation Trust · Amon G Carter Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Ninnie L Baird 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 Norman M Kronick Fort Worth 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Norman M Kronick Fort Worth Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Norman M Kronick Fort Worth 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 68 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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