· Private foundation
Brogdon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FORT WORTH CLUB | $25,000 |
| CRISTO REY FORT WORTH | $9,525 |
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +103% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +60%
- CRCRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC6× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +495%
- FWFORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE6× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +264%
Funded once
- BRBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- FWFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORYone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +1%
- DODAVEY OBRIEN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -2%
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 mission of fort worth country day school is to foster the intellectual, physical, emotional and ethical development of capable students through an academically rigorous college preparatory program that integrates the arts and athletics.
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.
Fort worth christian school is a christ-centered community where every child is loved, valued, taught excellence in and out of the classroom, and empowered by a biblical worldview for a lifetime of faith and service.
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…
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds DAVEY OBRIEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE ↗
- Who funds SKY RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds BOBBY BRAGAN YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN MONCRIEF CANCER CENTER MONCRIEF CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARY PATTERSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH REPORT ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Amon G Carter Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Morris Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Robert D and Catherine R Alexander Foundation · William E Scott Foundation · AllianceTexas Foundation · Nicholas Martin Jr Family 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 Brogdon 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.
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.