Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant
Fort Worth, TX · EIN 75-1158515. Reported 111 grants totalling $3,660,415 to 35 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in arts & culture (NTEE A01).
- How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 93% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $32,000. Half of what it reported fell between $17,000 and $44,950; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $87,050. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $255,450 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fort Worth Opera Association Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $226,300 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Texas Ballet Theater Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $220,150 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Van Cliburn Foundation Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $214,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fort Worth Art Association | Fort Worth, TX | $207,050 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kimbell Art Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $192,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Amphibian Productions Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $175,850 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| CASA Manana Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $174,735 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Amon Carter Museum of Western Art | Fort Worth, TX | $174,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kids Who Care | Fort Worth, TX | $168,882 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Stage West Theatre | Fort Worth, TX | $165,490 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Artes De La Rosa Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $157,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Performing Arts Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $156,875 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $130,730 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Circle Theatre Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $123,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sinaca Studios | Fort Worth, TX | $111,588 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ballet Frontier of Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $103,375 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lone Star Film Society | Fort Worth, TX | $88,625 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Imagination Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $79,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Art Station | Fort Worth, TX | $72,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Texas Academy of Fine Art | Ft Worth, TX | $66,375 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fort Worth Civic Orchestra Assoc | Fort Worth, TX | $52,183 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fifth Avenue Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $50,460 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Arts on Tap Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $48,702 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jubilee Players Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $47,250 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Stolen Shakespeare Guild | Irving, TX | $32,125 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Fort Worth Chorale Schola Cantorum of Texas Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $28,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Welman Project | Fort Worth, TX | $24,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Decolonizing the Music Room | Fort Worth, TX | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Caminos Del Inka Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hip Pocket Theatre | Fort Worth, TX | $17,020 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kinfolk House | Fort Worth, TX | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 619 Productions | Fort Worth, TX | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Southside Preservation Association | Fort Worth, TX | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thank You Darlin Foundation | Ft Worth, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
30 of 35 (86%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Fort Worth Opera
OPERATING SUPPORT/OUTREACH - Kimbell Museum of Art
OPERATING/DEIA CAPACITY BUILDING
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 35 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 24 | $917,835 | $39,712 |
| 2021 | 26 | $919,250 | $30,000 |
| 2022 | 29 | $923,830 | $32,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $899,500 | $28,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $32,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 32 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 512 West 4TH Street, Fort Worth, TX, 76102.
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