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The Fort Worth Foundation Trust at a glance

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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2018
20
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k6 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER$1,398,395
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK$75,000
COMMUNITY LINK$50,000
RECOVERY RESOURCE COUNCIL$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$50,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$25,000
THE GATEHOUSE$25,000
TARRANT COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION$20,000
NORTHSIDE INTER-COMMUNITY AGENCY$20,000
ACH$20,000
GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH$15,000
COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER$15,000
PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE$10,000
BEAUTIFUL FEET MINISTRIES$10,000
NEW DAY$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 8%HOPE SUPPLY COMPANY: $5k → 11%TARRANT COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 11%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER: $15k → 11%NORTHSIDE INTER-COMMUNITY AGENCY: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Target Hunger Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Community Lifeline Center

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…

Human Services
3
Fort Worth Hope Center the Hope Center

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…

Human Services
4
Hearts Full of Love

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.

Human Services
5
Gods Pantry

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Homeless Coalition of Dallas

Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area

Human Services
7
Your Harvest House

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…

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8
North Dallas Food Pantry

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.

Human Services
9
Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry

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…

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10
Eastside Ministries of Ft Worth

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.

Human Services
11
Pleasant Grove Food Pantry Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Recovery Resource Council; 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.
03the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $1,398,395 · Housing & ShelterTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY+1 more: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterTarrant Area Food Bank: $75,000 · OtherTarrant Area Food…Recovery Resource Council: $50,000 · OtherRecovery Resource…CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $50,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIE…SAMARITAN HOUSE: $25,000 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSETHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION: $25,000 · OtherTHE GATEHOUSE COR…ACH: $20,000 · OtherACHGRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherGRACE COMMUNITY C…BEAUTIFUL FEET CHURCH S B C INC: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE INTERCOMMUNITY AGENCY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTarrant County Homeless Coalition: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesPARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY CO: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LINK MISSION INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCUISINE FOR HEALING: $5,000 · Food & NutritionWI Cook Foundation Inc: $7,500 · Health
Housing & Shelter$1,405,895Other$280,000Human Services$70,000Food & Nutrition$55,000Health$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $1,398,395 over 1y, 21% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRecovery Resource Council: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINK MISSION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetNORTHSIDE INTERCOMMUNITY AGENCY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTarrant County Homeless Coalition: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LADDER ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCUISINE FOR HEALING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Norman M Kronick Fort…Communities Foundatio…Thomas M Helen McKee …United Way of Tarrant…Community Foundation …Amon G Carter Foundat…America's CharitiesBnsf Railway Foundati…The Ninnie L Baird Fo…Ken W Davis FoundationSid W Richardson Foun…Rainwater Charitable …
Norman M Kronick Fort Worth FoundationTX26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fort Worth Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fort Worth Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Fort Worth Foundation Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The Fort Worth Foundation Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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