· Private foundation
Robert D and Catherine R Alexander Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of ROBERT D AND CATHERINE R ALEXANDER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $180,000 |
| COOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF TARRANT COUNTY | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY | $10,000 |
| FORT WORTH REPORT | $6,000 |
| LAYLA ROSE RANCH | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND OF HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHISOLM TRAIL | $5,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC | $5,000 |
| PEDIATRIC VISION RESEARCH AND DIAGNOSTIC CENTER | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN FORT WORTH | $3,000 |
| FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF FORT WORTH | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCook Children's Medical Center7× · 2017–2023 · $350k · revenue +118%
- FWFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +52%
- FWFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UHUNT Health Science Center Foundationone grant, 2019 · $26k
- SOShady Oaks Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +56%
- PAPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
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.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
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.…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
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…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Through its affiliates, thr operates an integrated healthcare system with services and facilities throughout north central texas to improve the health of the people in the communities they serve.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association and the most unlike its peers is Local North Texas Community Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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. 37 of the 57 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC VISION RESEARCH AND DIAGNOSTIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse For The Blind Of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds All Saints Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAYLA ROSE RANCH ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Shady Oaks Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH REPORT ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SCENIC TEXAS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · The Morris Foundation · The Alcon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Robert D and Alma Moreton Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002
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 Catherine R Alexander 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.
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.
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