· Public charity
Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show
The corporation is organized and is to be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $389,671 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,928,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,539,229 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $339k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSTANG CHAMPIONS | $116,211 |
| CAREITY FOUNDATION | $63,000 |
| COOK CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER | $60,100 |
| FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH | $27,360 |
| NATIONAL MULTICULTURAL WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| TARRANT COUNTY BLACK HISTORIC & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| TEXAS COWBOY HALL OF FAME | $5,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% of your 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 +47% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- FWFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY8× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +1%
- CCCook Children's Medical Center8× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +118%
- NCNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC6× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +276%
Funded once
- CCCHISHOLM CHALLENGEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXASone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -18%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +16%
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.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.
Texas & southwestern cattle raisers' foundation (foundation) will build platforms to preserve the history and advance the future of the livestock industry in the southwest through cattle raisers museum exhibits, education initiatives and…
With more than 1 million visitors annually, the fort worth zoo strengthens the bond between humans and the environment by promoting responsible stewardship of wildlife and ensuring diverse, high-quality educational and entertaining family…
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Youth education and development are the primary focus of fair activities and programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas and the most unlike its peers is Fort Worth Cops for Kids 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 26 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.
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- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds CAREITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds Mustang Champions ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTICULTURAL WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TARRANT AREA COMMUNITY OF CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association ↗
- Who funds Unity Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds North Texas High School Rodeo Association ↗
- Who funds WEATHERFORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COWBOY HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Cops for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show 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.