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William M Fuller Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$468k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 22
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$4.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations William M Fuller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $358k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterAnimalsHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$465k25%
FY202316$421k38%
FY202220$591k20%
FY202122$307k55%
FY202015$182k20%
FY201920$264k90%
FY20182$110kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$935kRecreation & Sports$515kHealth$326kEnvironment$206kArts & Culture$203kInternational$82kHousing & Shelter$30kReligion$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
MA
CA
VA
AZ
NM
AR
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($824k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William M Fuller Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerica First Policy Institute Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $300,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Christian University: $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant Classical School: $171,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNational Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc: $102,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Monuments Fund Inc: $23,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLone Star Sanctuary for Animals Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAmon Carter Museum of Western Art: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEllen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSaving Hope Foundation: $5,443 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers' Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTexas Ballet Theater Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Domaine de Chantilly Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant County: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Explorers Club: $1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Desert The: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education · The Bratton Family Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation · Burnett Foundation · William E Scott Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · R4 Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to William M Fuller Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About William M Fuller Foundation

How much does William M Fuller Foundation give?
William M Fuller Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $467,880 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does William M Fuller Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Health (14%).
Who are William M Fuller Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: America First Policy Institute Inc ($500k), Eisenhower Medical Center ($300k), Texas Christian University ($180k).
Does William M Fuller Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William M Fuller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as William M Fuller Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Bnsf Railway Foundation, Kleinheinz Family Foundation For The Arts And Education.
Where is William M Fuller Foundation based?
William M Fuller Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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