· Private foundation
Virginia Hobbs Charitable Trust Simmons Bank Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $398k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $80,000 |
| FORT WORTH ZOO | $60,000 |
| FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDEN | $50,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS | $30,000 |
| COOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES | $25,000 |
| MAYFEST | $25,000 |
| SAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND | $20,500 |
| FORT WORTH OPERA | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| THE HOGAN TROPHY AWARD FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HILL SCHOOOL OF FORT WORTH | $20,000 |
| CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS | $16,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH | $15,371 |
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 (FY17–25, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
66 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $266k · revenue +60%
- THThe Hogan Trophy Award Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +237% · 80% of their budget
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $213k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- CCCook Children's Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2017 · $101k · revenue +118%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF FORT WORTHone grant, 2024 · $30k
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
The Texas Foundation for Animal Care exists to bring high-quality, low-cost veterinary services and programs to underserved communities and provides public education for the betterment and protection of animals.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue is a no-kill organization dedicated to providing a safe and healthy environment along with quality care until loving homes can be found. We also provide sanctuary care for ferrets that are not adoptable due to…
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.
The texas veterinary medical foundation is committed to supporting the veterinary profession and our communities in texas by providing resources, education, and programs for the responsible stewardship of animals.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
Provide food, shelter and care for homeless, unwanted, pets. give pets a second chance by adoption. pay medical bills incoming injured animals, assist pet owners with free spay/neuter and medical appointments at veterinarians. educate thr…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Foundation Second Chance Horse Rescue. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 94 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Hogan Trophy Award Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MAYFEST INC (DBA TRINITY COLLABORATIVE INC) ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds THE LADDER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TAMAYA HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA MANANA INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds DONT FORGET TO FEED ME PET FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Helping Restore Ability ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE SERVICES ↗
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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · R4 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 Virginia Hobbs Charitable Trust Simmons Bank Trustee 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.