Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust
Dallas, TX · EIN 23-7029857. Reported 135 grants totalling $2,355,000 to 100 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Helen Irwin Littauer Educational 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $35,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fdn for Young Women's Leadership Academy | Fort Worth, TX | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County | Fort Worth, TX | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant | Fort Worth, TX | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Safehaven of Tarrant County | Fort Worth, TX | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Texas Health Resource Foundation | Arlington, TX | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| CASA of Tarrant County Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fort Worthtrinity Habitat for Humanity | Fort Worth, TX | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cancer Care Services | Fort Worth, TX | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Educational First Steps | Dallas, TX | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Breakthrough Ft Worth Country Day Sch | Fort Worth, TX | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Buckner Children & Family Services | Dallas, TX | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Center for Transforming Lives | Fort Worth, TX | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Create & Collaborate | Fort Worth, TX | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Arlington Life Shelter | Arlington, TX | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 6 Stones Mission Network | Bedford, TX | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Clayton Child Care Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Communities in Schools Gtr Tarrant Cnty | Ft Worth, TX | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Fort Worth Report | Fort Worth, TX | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grapevine Relief & Community Exchange | Grapevine, TX | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Cristo Rey Fort Worth High School | Fort Worth, TX | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Fort Worth, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rivertree Academy Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Shaken Baby Alliance | Fort Worth, TX | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Academy 4 | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Ach Child and Family Services | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| All Church Home for Children | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star | Arlington, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Food Bank Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fort Worth Museum of Science & History | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Fort Worth Steam Academy | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Girls Incorporated of Tarrant County | Arlington, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Helping Restore Ability | Arlington, TX | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Humane Society of North Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Key School and Training Center | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Key School Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Operation Warm Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Rocketship Public Schools Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Health Resources Foundation | Arlington, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Welman Project | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Unthsc Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alliance for Children Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Camp Summit | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Communities in Schools of Greater Tarrant County | Ft Worth, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Partners of Tarrant County | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dental Health Arlington | Arlington, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Essilor Vision Foundation | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gladney Center for Adoption | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| H O P E Farm Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Methodist Justice Ministry | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Reading Partners | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Streams and Valleys Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Survive and Thrive Education | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Fdn | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Texas Ramp Project | Richardson, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters North Texas | Irving, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christ's Haven for Children | Keller, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Community Hospice of Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Worth Sister Cities | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Guardianship Services Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hope Supply Co | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jps Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lena Pope Home | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Literacy United | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Project 4031 | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Star Sponsorship Program | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tarrant County Association for the Blind | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Academy of Fine Art | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Concilio | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Parenting Center | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Warm Place Grief Support | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Warm Place Grief Support Aka What About Remembering | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| All Saints Health Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bridge Ft Worth Young Professionals Org Bridge Yps (young Professionals) | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cattle Raisers Foundation & Museum | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Foundation of North Tx | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Day Resource Center for the Homeless | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Family First | Tampa, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Worth Public Library Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gill Children's Services Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hill School of Fort Worth Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Immunization Collaboration of Tarrant | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Leadership Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Leadership Isd | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Midwest Food Bank Texas | Haltom City, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Horizons of North Texas -Nhntx Inc) | Southlake, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Noggin Educational Foundation | Grand Prairie, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Open Arms Inc | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| River Legacy Foundation | Arlington, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rutledge Cancer Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army North Texas | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| She Supply | Flower Mound, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Simply Grace | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tarrant to & Through Partnerships | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Taste Project | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Battered Women's Foundation | North Richland Hills, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Cliburn in the Classroom | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Transform 1012 N Main Street | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
29 of 100 (29%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 0%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
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.
- Fdn for Young Women's Leadership Academy
SUPPORT COLLEGE PERSISTENCE - Cancer Care Services
SUPPORT FOR CANCER CRISIS - Communities in Schools Gtr Tarrant Cnty
CASE MANAGEMENT FOR AT-RISK - Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Fdn
SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - New Horizons of North Texas -Nhntx Inc)
UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPORT - Texas Ramp Project
SUPPORT BUILDING RAMPS FOR
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 94 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | $330,000 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 22 | $315,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 23 | $425,000 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 34 | $545,000 | $15,000 |
| 2025 | 37 | $740,000 | $20,000 |
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
98% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
- 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.
- 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 Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
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.
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