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Sid W Richardson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23M
Granted FY2023
171
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through 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 FY2020–2024.

Education$14MHuman Services$12MArts & Culture$6.6MEnvironment$4.4MHealth$3.5MYouth Development$3.4MPhilanthropy$3.1MAnimals$3.0MOther$0
02FY2023 · 171 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 171 grants below total $20,212,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $22,830,417 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,618,167 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 $10k26 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k85 grants · $7.4M
  • $250k+14 grants · $11M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$527M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fort Worth Zoological Association, Inc.$2,500,000
Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Inc.$2,500,000
Texas A&M Foundation$2,500,000
Center for Transforming Lives$1,000,000
The Best School$500,000
The University of Texas at Arlington$450,000
Meals On Wheels, Inc. of Tarrant County$250,000
Texas Health Resources Foundation$250,000
YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth$250,000
Texas Wesleyan University$250,000
Community Foundation of North Texas$250,000
Cristo Rey Fort Worth Catholic High School, Inc.$250,000
Fort Worth Cradle to Career$250,000
Camp Fire First Texas$250,000
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History$210,000
02Your 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$45M · 153 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

153 repeat relationships — 123 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

153
79

Total granted

$45M
$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+26%

Still filing today

84%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH
    3× · 2020–2023 · $4.3M · revenue ×11
  • BR
    BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +174%
  • TF
    THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • FW
    FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue -19%
  • HP
    Harmony Public Schools, Harmony Science Academy
    one grant, 2021 · $689k
  • HD
    Housing Development Corporation of Fort Worth
    one grant, 2020 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your 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
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
2
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
3
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
4
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
5
North Texas Christian Foundation

National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.

Philanthropy
6
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
7
Texas Water Foundation

Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…

Environment
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
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
10
Texans Care for Children Inc

Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…

Crime & Legal
11
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
12
Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council

Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Castleberry Isd Education Foundation. 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 backsteadyCollege Foundation SupportEnvironmental Advocacy and …Classical Music OrchestrasEducation Equity InitiativesGovernment Accountability &…Early Childhood Care CentersYmca Community CentersSenior Support ServicesImmigrant and Latino Integr…Animal Rescue and ShelterChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Childhood Cancer SupportYouth Development CentersPublic School District Foun…Girls Stem Education Progra…Faith-Based Senior LivingChristian Youth CampsYouth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Domestic Violence and Sexua…Jewish Community FederationsCommunity Literacy TutoringCommunity Hospital SystemsDevelopmental Disabilities …Public Library SupportCharter and Independent Sch…Addiction & Mental Health T…Community Theater CompaniesAffordable Housing Construc…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Faith-Based Homeless Servic…Professional Dance CompaniesUnited Way AffiliatesLocal History MuseumsFood Pantries and AssistanceCommunity Foundations
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%3%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%14%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr10%35%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/217
the rest of the field
15%
20,230/136,587

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.

03the grantee network

207 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. 207 of the 267 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
196/207
Grantees still filing
146/207
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Tarrant Area Food Bank — $1,330,000 · OtherTarrant Area Food BankCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS — $750,000 · OtherGreat Hearts America-Texas — $1,179,375 · OtherGreat Hearts America-Texas+103 more — $17,737,667 · Other+103 moreTexas A&M Foundation — $2,500,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationFORT WORTH EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,205,000 · EducationFORT WORTH EDUCATION …Baylor College of Medicine — $975,000 · EducationBaylor College of Med…BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $822,222 · EducationBASIS TEXAS CHARTER S…TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $660,000 · EducationTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVER…CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $600,000 · EducationCRISTO REY FORT WORTH…The Best School — $500,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $475,000 · Education+27 more — $3,330,885 · Education+27 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH — $4,350,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES …CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $1,277,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFOR…CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC — $750,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE ASSISTA…YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth — $540,250 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $510,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $390,000 · Human Services+22 more — $2,381,800 · Human Services+22 moreFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION — $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH …FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $750,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH …FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $700,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH …Van Cliburn Foundation Inc — $700,000 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn…PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureJUBILEE PLAYERS INC — $210,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureFort Worth Opera Association Inc — $200,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $1,097,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $2,156,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY — $520,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $400,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HOLDSWORTH CENTER — $250,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $177,000 · PhilanthropyTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $105,000 · PhilanthropyBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC — $3,150,000 · Science & TechTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $2,800,000 · AnimalsSAVING HOPE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Animals
Other$20,997,042Education$11,068,107Human Services$10,199,050Arts & Culture$5,857,000Philanthropy$3,783,250Science & Tech$3,150,000Animals$2,950,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH — $4,350,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC — $3,150,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $2,800,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $2,500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $2,156,250 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION — $1,500,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $1,330,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $1,277,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetFORT WORTH EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,205,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetGreat Hearts America-Texas — $1,179,375 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $975,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $822,222 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $750,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS — $750,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC — $750,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $700,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $700,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $660,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC — $600,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER — $600,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth — $540,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY — $520,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC — $510,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetThe Best School — $500,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY — $500,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation — $500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $475,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR — $450,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFORT WORTH AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $450,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $436,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $405,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $390,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $375,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $365,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA — $350,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation — $350,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe YouthVantage Alliance — $350,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation — $300,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNEW KEY SCHOOL INC — $300,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC — $275,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PARENTING CENTER — $275,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP ISD INC — $270,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $265,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY PATHFINDERS OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $259,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC — $250,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSafe City Commission — $250,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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…Community Foundation …Rainwater Charitable …United Way of Tarrant…Paul E Andrews Jr Fou…The Morris FoundationGarvey Texas Foundati…Helen Irwin Littauer …Ann L Rhodes and Caro…Amon G Carter-Star Te…Communities Foundatio…
Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX187.9× affinity94 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 · Amon G Carter Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · United Way of Tarrant County · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · The Morris Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sid W Richardson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sid W Richardson 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 267 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 $24M 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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