Texas · Nonprofit
ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC
ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,517 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($240,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $402k
- Net assets
- $620k
What Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc does
Mission
To create an environment that promotes, nurtures, and supports the arts in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership, advocacy, and outreach:provided leadership and advocacy to the arts in fort worth and tarrant county: funded local art organizations through a competitive grants program and comprehensive arts educational program for individuals and nonprofit organizations. Supported 42 arts organizations that reached 1,058,090 individuals with in-person events, 11,630 with online presentations. An average of 55% of programing was free to participants.
$1,031,075 spentof which $983,422 as grants$8,075 earned by the program59% of program spendingPublic art program: managed the city of fort worth public art program for the purpose of enhancing the visual environment of our city. Scope of project management included 39 public art projects in various stages of completion; cleaning and maintenance of more than 185 completed artworks in the collection; conducted 23 community engagement meetings, and 370 project-specific core team/community meetings.
$505,295 spent$183,645 earned by the program29% of program spendingEducating on arts and advocacy: hosted public events such as workshops, panel discussions, and networking to educate and collaborate with local arts professionals and arts advocates.
$197,600 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,733,970.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $929k (−26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 90% · 2018 86% · 2019 83% · 2020 88% · 2021 86% · 2022 73% · 2023 70% · 2024 81% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Megan Henderson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $31k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $343k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax). These are real filings, and they are not money ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 91% · 2019 77% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 77% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
64% of ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $146k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $402k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fort Worth Community Arts Center Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $401,517 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($240,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $401,517 in grants to ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $240,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS COUNCIL OF FORT WORTH AND TARRANT COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing