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Robert D and Alma Moreton Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$802k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$2.0MHuman Services$1.0MHousing & Shelter$740kEducation$621kCivil Rights$400kRecreation & Sports$380kYouth Development$263kHealth$225kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $580k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County$125,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH$100,000
TEXAS BALLET THEATER$100,000
PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER$55,000
UNITED WAY OF METRO TARRANT COUNTY$50,000
CANCER CARE SERVICES$50,000
FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC$50,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC$50,000
DAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS$35,000
FNDN FOR THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP$30,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF TARRANT COUNTY$30,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION$25,000
RIVERTREE ACADEMY$25,000
FORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC$25,000
6 Stones Mission Network$25,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEROES FOR HEROES: $75k → 14%6 Stones Mission Network: $25k → 8%6 Stones Mission Network: $25k → 8%6 Stones Mission Network: $15k → 8%6 Stones Mission Network: $15k → 8%GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%HOPE FARM INC: $15k → 11%GUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%WHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC: $7k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $20k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 32 repeat orgs$607k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
18

Total granted

$5.4M
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+51%

Still filing today

75%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TB
    TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $775k · revenue +155%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $400k · revenue +71%
  • FW
    FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $400k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • HF
    Heroes for Heroes
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
  • TW
    TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +51%

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
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
2
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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3
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
4
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
5
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
6
Scott & White Hospital-Taylor

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
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
8
Safe City Commission

Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.

Crime & Legal
9
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Resource Council and the most unlike its peers is Mimir Chamber Music Festival. 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 backsteadyDiverse Mission Organizatio…Child Welfare Support Organ…Cancer Support OrganizationsPerforming Arts Organizatio…Child Abuse Prevention & Su…Independent K-12 SchoolsCrisis Support & Family Ser…
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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr9%37%35–55yr13%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr9%30%35–55yr13%43%55yr+

The field is 27% 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 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
16%
1,565/9,713

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 54 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
23/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH — $696,224 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTHUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant County — $420,000 · OtherUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant CountyUNITED WAY OF METRO TARRANT COUNTY — $110,250 · OtherFNDN FOR THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP — $90,000 · OtherTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $155,000 · OtherTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNT…DAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS — $140,000 · OtherDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESSMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY — $102,000 · Other+23 more — $845,500 · Other+23 moreTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $775,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INCFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $400,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC…PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC — $279,424 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INCFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $150,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HI…Fort Worth Opera Association Inc — $145,000 · Arts & CultureFort Worth Opera Association IncSWENSON MEMORIAL MUSEUM — $80,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $65,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $400,000 · Civil RightsTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $280,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY — $110,000 · PhilanthropyFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC — $30,000 · Recreation & Sports6 STONES MISSION NETWORK — $80,000 · Human ServicesHeroes for Heroes — $75,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Healthcare of Texas — $35,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INC — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $6,500 · Human ServicesTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationPANTEGO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $46,000 · Education
Other$2,558,974Arts & Culture$1,894,424Civil Rights$400,000Philanthropy$390,000Recreation & Sports$380,000Human Services$231,500Education$196,000

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 budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $775,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant County — $420,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $400,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $400,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $280,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC — $279,424 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $155,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc — $145,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS — $140,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY — $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY — $102,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget6 STONES MISSION NETWORK — $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSWENSON MEMORIAL MUSEUM — $80,000 over 3y, 75% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CARE SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY — $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPANTEGO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $46,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS WHO CARE INC — $37,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCommunity Healthcare of Texas — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRecovery Resource Council — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGUARDIANSHIP SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMimir Chamber Music Festival — $20,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelping Restore Ability — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FARM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMULTICULTURAL FAMILY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetWHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArtist Outreach Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 …Sid W Richardson Foun…Ann L Rhodes and Caro…Community Foundation …Amon G Carter Foundat…Leo Potishman Foundat…Communities Foundatio…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Garvey Texas Foundati…Helen Irwin Littauer …Amon G Carter-Star Te…Mary Potishman Lard T…
Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX59.3× affinity26 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 · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee

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 Robert D and Alma Moreton 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report 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.

    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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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