Texas · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC
DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,164,250 to it, the largest being Amon G Carter Foundation ($670,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Downtown Fort Worth Initiatives Inc does
Mission
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 welfare for the city of fort worth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Festivals and events in the downtown fort worth area to showcase and promote the downtown fort worth community.
$2,564,004 spent$1,805,490 earned by the program64% of program spendingThe organization is providing administrative services for landscaping, upkeep and maintenance for several downtown parks, by contract with the burnett foundation and/or the city of fort worth.
$717,691 spent$1,004,557 earned by the program18% of program spendingParticipates in housing projects established to provide low-moderate income housing in downtown fort worth and other charitable purposes.
$725,397 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,007,092.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.5M to $8.7M (+33%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Henry Borbolla
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $12k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fort Worth Promotion and Development Fun). These are real filings, and they are not money DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES 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
DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
0% of DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 13% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
78% of DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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
- Downtown Fort Worth Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC?
- DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,164,250 to it, the largest being Amon G Carter Foundation ($670,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,164,250 in grants to DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC?
- Amon G Carter Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $670,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES 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.
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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 8 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