{"id":438617,"date":"2026-09-17T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438617\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:04:19","slug":"power-of-philanthropy-north-texas-foundation-receives-more-than-100m-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438617\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Power of philanthropy.\u2019 North Texas foundation receives more than $100M gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_Botanic_Garden2.JPG_3_1_P9DK7LGS_L386480507.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"The front entrance to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, one of the organizations that received a grant from the North Texas Community Foundation, on Wednesday, August 10, 2016.\" alt=\"The front entrance to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, one of the organizations that received a grant from the North Texas Community Foundation, on Wednesday, August 10, 2016.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The front entrance to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, one of the organizations that received a grant from the North Texas Community Foundation, on Wednesday, August 10, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>                Rodger Mallison<\/p>\n<p>            Fort Worth Star Telegram<\/p>\n<p>The North Texas Community Foundation received its largest gift in history, an over $100 million estate gift from Beverly Hudgins Ray Parkhurst.<\/p>\n<p>The endowed gift will be used for historic preservation, land conservation, young women\u2019s education, animals, arts and vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n<p>Parkhurst grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from Carter Riverside High School and earned a business degree from TCU. She restored and managed the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach, California, and helped launch the Texas Pavilion at the 1965 World\u2019s Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Rose Bradshaw, the president and CEO of the North Texas Community Foundation, called the gift a \u201ctrue testament to the power of philanthropy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July, the foundation made the first investment of the gift by giving a $250,000 operating gift to the Texas Historical Foundation, one of Parkhurst\u2019s favorite organizations. It will use the money to provide funding for building preservation, archaeological investigations and conservation.<\/p>\n<p>In the land conservation efforts, the North Texas Community Foundation has allocated $600,000 for Fort Worth Open Space and Parks Conservancy to protect land and natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Newman, president and CEO of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, said the $500,000 the garden received was \u201ctransformational.\u201d The first plan for the money is a family garden, which is expected to open in November.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/315672317\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789635859_225_STAFF_Maven_Navarro.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Maven Navarro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/315672317\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maven Navarro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Maven Navarro is a local news reporter at the Star-Telegram. She covers Fort Worth and Tarrant County.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The front entrance to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, one of the organizations that received a grant from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-438617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}