Texas · Nonprofit
MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH
MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,614,448 to it, the largest being The Philecology Foundation ($17,601,688). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Multipurpose Arena Fort Worth does
Mission
Multipurpose Arena Fort Worth is organized and operated for the purposes of lessening the burdens of the city of fort worth, texas, and encouraging agricultural pursuits by managing, operating and otherwise supporting the operation of facilities owned by the city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Multipurpose Arena Fort Worth is organized and operated for the purposes of lessening the burdens of the city of fort worth, texas, and encouraging agricultural pursuits, and to do so without undue financial costs or risks to the city and its residents. Specifically, the corporation leases, manages and operates the city owned multipurpose arena that opened in october 2019 adjacent to the will rogers memorial center of fort worth. In addition, the corporation may also manage, operate, and/or otherwise support the operation of other facilities adjacent to the multipurpose arena, including garage and surface parking facilities and will rogers memorial center facilities, as well as other facilities owned by event facilities fort worth, inc., a 501(c)(3) organization, and by the city of fort worth.
$65,098,003 spent$77,272,464 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $65,098,003.
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 2019 to 2020, from $38M to $87M (+127%).
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 5% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (10% 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
Edward P Bass
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500k → $1.1M.
From the IRS filings of MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH’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
MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH'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
MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 164 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 164 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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
- Trail Drive Management Corp Parking LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH: 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 MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH?
- MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,614,448 to it, the largest being The Philecology Foundation ($17,601,688). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $18,614,448 in grants to MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH?
- The Philecology Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $17,601,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MULTIPURPOSE ARENA FORT WORTH 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 3 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