· Private foundation
Tj Brown & Ca Lupton 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 · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $425k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TCU - FLYING T CLUB | $560,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $540,000 |
| TCU - ATHLETICS HUMAN PERFORMANCE CENTER | $466,667 |
| NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME | $335,000 |
| EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH | $250,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $75,000 |
| SAVING HOPE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COOK CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | $40,000 |
| SECOND STAGE THEATRE | $35,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ZACH THEATER | $20,000 |
| GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
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, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +40%
- NCNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +364%
- MAMULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH3× · 2019–2022 · $1.0M · revenue ×1,873
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +89%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
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 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…
Texas & southwestern cattle raisers' foundation (foundation) will build platforms to preserve the history and advance the future of the livestock industry in the southwest through cattle raisers museum exhibits, education initiatives and…
Education of children and youth
To operate exclusively for the benefit of the fort worth art association, a sec. 501(c)(3) organization. the foundation is responsible for the administration of the long term investments held for the benefit of the association and its…
To act as the voice of business, articulating a business perspective and advocating policies supported by the fort worth general business community.
Educational and cultural center to enrich lives through collection, study, exhibition, interpretation and celebration of visual arts.
To produce theatre that entertains, enriches and inspires.
See schedule o-to perform great symphonic music at the highest level of artistic excellence to educate, entertain, and enhance cultural life.-to present engaging music education programs for young people to foster early interest in and…
Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Performing Arts Fort Worth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saving Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 47 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 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds EVENT FACILITIES FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAVING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
- Who funds OLD JAIL ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds ZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH REPORT ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
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 · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Roach Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Wm & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund Xxxxx3001 · William E Scott Foundation · Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund
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 Tj Brown & Ca Lupton 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.
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