Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation
Fort Worth, TX · EIN 26-1338655. Reported 54 grants totalling $1,633,950 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. 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. Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation 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 $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $1,200,000. 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. 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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Texas Community Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $1,222,500 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| YMCA | Fort Worth, TX | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Near Southside Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colorado Fourteener Initiative | Golden, CO | $46,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Camp Fire First Texas Council | Fort Worth, TX | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nature Conservancy Louisiana | Baton Rouge, LA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fort Worth Report | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chaffee County Community Foundation | Buena Vista, CO | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Amon Carter Museum of American Art | Fort Worth, TX | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Landmarks - Ut Austin | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Scenic Texas | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southwest Watercolor Artists | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trust for Public Land Colorado | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Medical Ministry International UC | San Antonio, TX | $9,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center | Fort Worth, TX | $8,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Drowning Prevention Council | Fort Worth, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Presbyterian Night Shelter | Fort Worth, TX | $6,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Salida Concerts Inc | Salida, CO | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Big Bend Conservancy | Big Bend Np, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Congregation of Divine Providence | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cowtown Marathon | Fort Worth, TX | $5,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Hampshire Audubon | Concord, NH | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Artworks Foundation | Memphis, TN | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Abilene Education Foundation | Abilene, TX | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Salida Mountain Trails | Salida, CO | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Spay Neuter Network | Kaufman, TX | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Panther City Feral Cat Coalition | Fort Worth, TX | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Philanthropy Southwest | Dallas, TX | $1,275 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mid-Cities Community Cats | Bedford, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Reel Recovery | Azle, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southwest Expo & Livestock Show | Fort Worth, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Stephen Presbyterian Church | Fort Worth, TX | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Entrada | Fort Worth, TX | $575 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junior League of Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Cliburn | Fort Worth, TX | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Live Oak Meeting House | New York, NY | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
15 of 36 (42%) 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 10%, 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.
- Near Southside Inc
SUPPORT FOR FIRESTATION PARK - Colorado Fourteener Initiative
FIELD SHOOTS AND EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS AND VOLUNTEER MNGMT SOFTWARE - Camp Fire First Texas Council
FUNDING FOR ARTIST'S CHRISTMAS/PAVILLION - Fort Worth Report
SUPPORT FOR ARTS REPORTER - Nature Conservancy Louisiana
SUPPORT FOR A CONTROLLED BURN - Amon Carter Museum of American Art
GENERAL SUPPORT (CIRCLE FUND)
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $1,372,850 | $2,500 |
| 2022 | 21 | $227,025 | $4,500 |
| 2023 | 6 | $18,500 | $2,000 |
| 2024 | 4 | $15,575 | $2,500 |
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.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation has 81 of them, worth $5,017,835. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Entrada | Fort Worth, TX | $800,000 |
| Jp Morgan Charitable Giving Fund | Jenkintown, PA | $685,000 |
| Jp Morgan Charitable Giving Fund | Jenkintown, PA | $560,000 |
| Texas A&m University | College Station, TX | $500,000 |
| Lena Pope Home | Fort Worth, TX | $230,000 |
| Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation | Dallas, TX | $180,000 |
| Botanical Research Institute of Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $150,000 |
| The Cliburn | Fort Worth, TX | $115,000 |
| Jp Morgan Charitable Giving Fund | Jenkintown, PA | $115,000 |
| Colorado Fourteener Initiative | Golden, CO | $105,000 |
| Cowtown Marathon | Fort Worth, TX | $96,000 |
| Botanical Research Institute of Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $75,000 |
| North Texas Community Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $75,000 |
| Fort Worth Report | Fort Worth, TX | $75,000 |
| Fort Worth Report | Fort Worth, TX | $75,000 |
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- 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 Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation'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 707, Fort Worth, TX, 76101. 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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