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Recent Letter of Inquiry (LOI) Grantees

Since our inception in 1953, we have made more than $1.9 billion in grants to support education, health care, public safety, social service, animals, the arts and more — touching nearly all aspects of life in our community.

The Letter of Inquiry process supports programs that address needs across the North Texas region (Collin, Dallas, Denton, Rockwall and Tarrant Counties). Through this process, each year, Communities Foundation of Texas has provided approximately 50 to 60 grants annually between $5,000-$20,000 to nonprofits in the region. Below is the list of all the nonprofits that were grant recipients in 2019.

Rutledge Cancer Foundation

Rutledge Cancer Foundation works to ease the impact of cancer on the lives of teens and young adults, raise survival rates and find a cure for sarcomas and other solid tumor cancers. Funding supported an ongoing project with Drs. Andras Lacko and Sangram Raut at the UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth that seeks to develop a novel carrier particle designed to focus the delivery of chemotherapies.

$40,000.00

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Seniors' Pet Assistance Network

Seniors’ Pet Assistance Network secures joyful, healthy relationships between low-income seniors and their companion animals. They provide ongoing services in the form of veterinary care and pet food supplies.
 

$10,000.00

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Shared Housing Center

Shared Housing Center offers housing stability with supportive services, focusing on economic independence, vocational advancement, and academic achievement. Funding is requested to support their Group Residence program, which provides up to 12 months transitional housing and supportive services for families. 

$20,000.00

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Susan G. Komen

Susan G. Komen’s mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities and investing in breakthrough research to prevent and cure breast cancer. 
 

$60,000.00

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Taste Project

Taste Project seeks to feed, educate, and serve the community. They believe everyone should have access to healthy and nutritional food. At their Taste Community Restaurant, they offer a pay-what-you-can full-service restaurant, where healthy meals are served using fresh, seasonal ingredients.

$20,000.00

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TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation

TeamConnor Childhood Cancer Foundation’s mission is to raise funds for childhood cancer research projects, to build awareness that only 4% of the NCI's annual funding supports childhood cancer research, and to provide patient programming. Funds will go to Cook Children's for NANT multicenter clinical trial in use of natural killer (NK) cell immunotherapy to target specific cells in the treatment of neuroblastoma (NB).

$30,000.00

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Texas Ballet Theater

Texas Ballet Theater creates, presents and tours world-class ballet, from classical to cutting edge, and promotes its appreciation, accessibility, and technical mastery among students, pre-professionals, and audiences of all ages.

$20,000.00

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The Family Place

The Family Place empowers victims of family violence by providing safe housing, counseling and skills that create independence while building community engagement and advocating for social change to stop family violence. They are the largest family violence service provider in North Texas, operating a shelter as well as providing comprehensive services for clients.

$20,000.00

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The First Tee of Fort Worth

The First Tee of Fort Worth is a youth development organization committed to providing critical, life enhancing strategies that give participants much needed skills to actively make good decisions utilizing the game of golf as the delivery vehicle for these skills. Funding is requested to support the implementation of program evaluation software that will allow the organization to develop a tool specific to their signature curriculum.

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$7,000.00

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