Texas · Nonprofit
FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION
FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,411,572 to it, the largest being BURNETT FOUNDATION ($9,090,801). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $109M
What Fort Worth Art Association does
Mission
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 worth, texas, for public use and benefit. The association strives to provide educational enjoyment in modern art, to preserve the art holdings of the association and to create public appreciation for such art by its appropriate display.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Fort Worth Art Association 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 worth, texas, for public use and benefit.
$11,691,683 spentof which $150,000 as grants$807,266 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,691,683.
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 2023 to 2024, from $75M to $95M (+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: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Marsland Moncrief
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.5M.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $90M from 2 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Fort Worth Art Association Endowment Foundation); $1.5M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION’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
FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 90% · 2018 87% · 2019 89% · 2020 58% · 2021 49% · 2022 94% · 2023 90% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 FY2023, 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
92% of FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $392k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
23%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Fort Worth Modern Art Museum Association · exempt
- Mpa Foundation · exempt
- Fort Worth Art Association Endowment Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION?
- FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,411,572 to it, the largest being BURNETT FOUNDATION ($9,090,801). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $12,411,572 in grants to FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION?
- BURNETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,090,801 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT WORTH ART ASSOCIATION 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 19 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