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The Philecology Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
- $250k+6 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH | $13,000,000 |
| CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC | $2,000,000 |
| MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH | $1,725,413 |
| JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS | $815,000 |
| THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM | $400,000 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $250,000 |
| THE CLIBURN | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +13% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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
- MAMULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH3× · 2023–2025 · $18M · revenue +19%
- BRBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC4× · 2018–2022 · $3.2M · revenue +317%
- TFTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $2.4M · revenue +3%
Funded once
- PAPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INCone grant, 2017 · $14M · revenue -36% · 36% of their budget
- EFEVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INCone grant, 2024 · $9.1M · revenue -27% · 96% of their budget
- UOUniversity of Miamione grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +9%
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers' Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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 MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMAZON BIODIVERSITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Flora of North America Association ↗
- Who funds TEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERLIN TUTTLES BAT CONSERVATION INC ↗
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: Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation · The Bratton Family Foundation · Alice L Walton Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Burnett Foundation · Adeline & George McQueen Foundation Xxxxx1007 · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Philecology Foundation 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
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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