· Private foundation
The Bratton Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $108,250 |
| FORT WORTH DALLAS CHARITIES | $66,949 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| NANTUCKET CHARITIES | $43,700 |
| NATIONAL CHARITIES | $23,443 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The Bratton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 55%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $910k · revenue +51%- NHNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2020 · $88k · revenue +214%
- TBTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC3× · 2018–2020 · $43k · revenue +155%
Funded once
- CCCHRIST CHAPEL BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $60k
- 44AFRICAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $53k · revenue +91%
- CACORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +12%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The fort worth art assocation, a texas non-profit corporation, was established to acquire a collection of works of modern art of the highest quality and to promulgate and maintain a program of art activities and art education in fort…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Austin area arts applauds and advances all arts by welcoming diverse, creative individuals to share their unique talents to inspire our community.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To own and operate a museum, curating antiques and collectibles, that provides a gateway to the past that educates, entertains, and inspires lifelong learning
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The amon carter museum of western art was established through the generosity of amon g. carter sr. (1879-1955) to house his collection of more than 400 paintings and sculptures by fredric remingtion and charles m. russell, to collect,…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
How this is measured
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 4AFRICA ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMEDY FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WHITE HERON THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET FILM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWEL CHARITY BALL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Bnsf Railway Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · The Roach Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation · Adeline & George McQueen Foundation Xxxxx1007 · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bratton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bratton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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