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The Fort Worth Foundation Trust
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER | $1,398,395 |
| TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK | $75,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY LINK | $50,000 |
| RECOVERY RESOURCE COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $25,000 |
| THE GATEHOUSE | $25,000 |
| NORTHSIDE INTER-COMMUNITY AGENCY | $20,000 |
| TARRANT COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION | $20,000 |
| ACH | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $15,000 |
| BEAUTIFUL FEET MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| NEW DAY | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–18, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
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.
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
Community lifeline center envisions a community where all of our neighbors are provided resources to overcome temporary adversity. we can achieve this vision by focusing on our mission to provide residents of collin county with basic…
The mission of the Fort Worth Hope Center is to fight hunger and feed hope by meeting peoples' immediate nutrition needs while also helping as many as possible to become self-sufficient. To this end, we provide both groceries and household…
to share Jesus with those we minister to regardless of social status by first meeting their physical needs and, through that relationship, meeting their spiritual needs.
God's Pantry exists to extend a helping hand, to the needy, by providing food to anyone who is facing circumstances beyond their control. The pantry serves all people, with respect and compassion, allowing them to maintain their…
Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area
Harvest House exists to restore hope and dignity by equipping families to overcome crisis and build long-term stability. We do this by pairing practical resources with relational support and spiritual encouragement, so help becomes lasting…
North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
As a 501 (c) 3 organization that was incorporated in 1981 to provide free food and clothing to unhoused and underserved individuals and families on the east side of Fort Worth without discrimination.
Pleasant Grove Food Pantry provides nutritious food to qualified residents of Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas who are food insecure. Fighting food insecurity is the mission and intent of the organization. Services are provided by…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Resource Council and the most unlike its peers is The Gatehouse Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 20 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 THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Recovery Resource Council ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINK MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE INTERCOMMUNITY AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Tarrant County Homeless Coalition ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY ↗
- Who funds WI Cook Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CUISINE FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds THE LADDER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SUPPLY CO ↗
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: Norman M Kronick Fort Worth Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · United Way of Tarrant County · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter Foundation · America's Charities · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation · Ken W Davis Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Rainwater Charitable 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 The Fort Worth Foundation Trust 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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