· Private foundation
William E Scott 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $825k
- $250k+3 grants · $950k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF ART | $450,000 |
| FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY | $250,000 |
| FORT WORTH ZOO | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME | $200,000 |
| FORT WORTH OPERA | $120,000 |
| DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INC | $100,000 |
| CASA MANANA | $100,000 |
| THE CLIBURN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $80,000 |
| FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| MULTICULTURAL ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS OF FORT WORTH | $30,000 |
| HISTORIC FORT WORTH INC | $25,000 |
| SAVNG HOPE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $70k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433k 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
- CMCASA MANANA INC4× · 2021–2025 · $575k · revenue +97%
- ASAll Saints Health Foundation3× · 2022–2025 · $320k · revenue +15%
- TBTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $275k · revenue +186%
Funded once
- FWFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +14%
- ACARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTHone grant, 2023 · $500k
- SVSTREAMS & VALLEYS INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +15%
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.
With more than 1 million visitors annually, the fort worth zoo strengthens the bond between humans and the environment by promoting responsible stewardship of wildlife and ensuring diverse, high-quality educational and entertaining family…
Education of children and youth
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…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
To provide leadership and advocacy to the arts in fort worth and tarrant county.
Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
To inspire and influence the culture in Fort Worth by joyfully engaging our students with the classics, which are the foundation of Western civilization and point to the most important historical even of humanity, the Incarnation of our…
Downtown fort worth initiatives, inc. receives funds to be used exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes that help to foster, promote, maintain, and encourage the civic, social, and general…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Performing Arts Fort Worth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 61 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 CASA MANANA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds All Saints Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds STREAMS & VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Multicultural Alliance ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Historic Fort Worth Inc ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS WHO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds STAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds DAVEY OBRIEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH REPORT ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SAVING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINDERPLATZ OF FINE ARTS 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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · The Roach Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002
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 William E Scott 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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