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A M Pate JR Charitable Trust

Dallas, TX · EIN 75-2510793. Reported 33 grants totalling $310,000 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$310,000granted, 2021-2024
22organizations funded
29%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,108,001assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. A M Pate JR Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
10 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Fort Worth Museum of Science and HistoryFort Worth, TX$40,000442024
Amon Carter Museum of Western ArtFort Worth, TX$35,000442024
Center for Transforming LivesFort Worth, TX$25,000222024
Jewel Charity Ball IncFort Worth, TX$25,000332024
Fort Worth Modern Art Museum AssociationFort Worth, TX$20,000112021
Performing Arts Fort Worth IncFort Worth, TX$20,000222024
Fort Worth Police Officer Award FoundationFort Worth, TX$15,000112021
Philosophical Society of TexasAustin, TX$15,000222022
6 Stones Mission NetworkEuless, TX$10,000112022
Ab Christian Learning CenterFort Worth, TX$10,000112024
Grapevine Relief & Community ExchangeGrapevine, TX$10,000112023
Lena Pope Home IncFort Worth, TX$10,000112022
New Horizons North Texas IncSouthlake, TX$10,000112022
Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers FoundationFort Worth, TX$10,000112023
The National Cowgirl MuseumFort Worth, TX$10,000112023
The Parenting CenterFort Worth, TX$10,000112023
Werk on Me IncCrowley, TX$10,000112024
George Bush Presidential Library FoundationCollege Station, TX$5,000112021
Historic Fort Worth IncFort Worth, TX$5,000112021
Humane Society of North TexasFort Worth, TX$5,000112023
Ridglea Presbyterian ChurchFort Worth, TX$5,000112021
Texas Christian UniversityFort Worth, TX$5,000112021

6 of 22 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 29%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
13 grants
Human Services
7 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Education
2 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202111$80,000$5,000
20228$80,000$10,000
20237$70,000$10,000
20247$80,000$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Fort Worth, TX
$250K
Austin, TX
$15K
Grapevine, TX
$10K
Crowley, TX
$10K
Euless, TX
$10K
Southlake, TX
$10K
College Station, TX
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from A M Pate JR Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 653067, Dallas, TX, 75265. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 75-2510793 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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