The Junior League of Fort Worth Inc
Fort Worth, TX · EIN 75-6022377. Reported 81 grants totalling $2,143,401 to 63 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 The Junior League of Fort Worth Inc, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S810) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,892. Half of what it reported fell between $7,496 and $35,000; the smallest was $5,127 and the largest $125,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
52 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $448,815 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ach Child and Family Services | Fort Worth, TX | $234,325 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Womens Center of Tarrant County Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $180,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wings of Hope Equitherapy | Cleburne, TX | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Better Vision Better Hope | Fort Worth, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Net Fort Worth Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County | Fort Worth, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Justins Place | Fort Worth, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Worth Isd | Fort Worth, TX | $73,586 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unbound North Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| CASA Manana Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $65,815 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fortress Youth Development Center Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $61,974 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fort Worth Zoological Association Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $56,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $55,214 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Portfolio Resident Services Inc | Houston, TX | $54,308 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fort Worth Country Day School Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Girls on the Run of the Dfw Metroplex | Farmers Branch, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lena Pope Home Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Van Cliburn Foundation Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Healthcare of Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fort Worth Junior Golf Foundation Incorporated | Fort Worth, TX | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unbound Now | Waco, TX | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Ladder Alliance | Fort Worth, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tarrant Area Food Bank | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Texas Academy 4 | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reach Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $23,652 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Meals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County Endowment Fund | Fort Worth, TX | $20,659 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Laundry Love Fort Worth Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Safehaven of Tarrant County | Arlington, TX | $17,435 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Christian Community Storehouse of Keller | Keller, TX | $16,387 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gill Childrens Services Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $16,065 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Church of Jesus Christ | Fort Worth, TX | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Eastside Ministries | Fort Worth, TX | $15,302 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| 4 Saints Episcopal Food Pantry | Fort Worth, TX | $14,900 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Peter & St Paul Anglican | Arlington, TX | $14,344 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pregnancy Lifeline | Fort Worth, TX | $13,721 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mhmr of Tarrant County | Fort Worth, TX | $10,366 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Harvest Missionary Baptist Church | Fort Worth, TX | $9,570 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Westaid | Fort Worth, TX | $9,378 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jps Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $9,345 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Texas Healthy Communities | Arlington, TX | $9,323 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pregnancy Help Center of Fw | Fort Worth, TX | $9,315 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Walls of Jericho Deliverance | Fort Worth, TX | $9,063 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Crowley House of Hope | Crowley, TX | $8,754 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Broadway Baptist Church of Fort Worth Tx Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $8,586 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Transforming Lives | Fort Worth, TX | $8,511 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salt and Light Together Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $8,404 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $8,326 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church | Arlington, TX | $8,206 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Partners of Tarrant County Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $7,839 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Food Bank | Fort Worth, TX | $7,496 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Street Methodist Missio | Fort Worth, TX | $7,445 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eastern Hills Elementary | Fort Worth, TX | $7,258 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Texas Community Table Inc | Keller, TX | $7,212 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Crossroads Outreach | Fort Worth, TX | $6,903 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pregnancy Help 4 U Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $6,765 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clayton Child Care Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $6,545 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Broadway Baptist Church | Fort Worth, TX | $6,374 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| WAYWESX17 An Xavier Brown Foundation | Fort Worth, TX | $6,293 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mission Central Metroplex Inc | Hurst, TX | $6,036 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chosen Ones | Fort Worth, TX | $5,774 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Baptist Church of Fort Worth | Fort Worth, TX | $5,127 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
16 of 63 (25%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 42 of 63 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 | 10 | $560,000 | $45,000 |
| 2021 | 8 | $535,000 | $60,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | $366,349 | $7,135 |
| 2023 | 43 | $682,052 | $9,063 |
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
97% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $9,892 -- 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 The Junior League of Fort Worth Inc'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 43 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: 255 Bailey Avenue, Fort Worth, TX, 76107.
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