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Carolyn and Mike Maples Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Carolyn and Mike Maples Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2026still arriving
5
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$151kReligion$42kEducation$32kHuman Services$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kPhilanthropy$7kRecreation & Sports$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2026 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$55k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KAPPA ALPHA THETA FRATERNITY$25,000
CARGO RANCH$10,000
THE LIFESPACE FOUNDATION$5,000
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%QUILTS OF VALOR: $1k → 7%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTERS OF TEXAS: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
IA
CA
CO
MO
NM
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$165k · 6 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +111% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
36

Total granted

$165k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%
+46%

Still filing today

67%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’26
HealthEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HF
    HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $87k · revenue +282%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue +111%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • CH
    CONNOR'S HEART
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $19k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
2
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
3
Forty First Foundation

The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…

Education
4
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
5
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
6
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
7
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
8
Austin Area Foundation

Support nonprofit organizations by managing & distributing charitable gifts

Philanthropy
9
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
10
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Baldrick's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cargo Ranch Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $29,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKAPPA ALPHA THETA FRATERNITY: $25,000 · OtherKAPPA ALPHA THETA FRATERNITYCONNOR'S HEART: $20,000 · OtherCONNOR'S HEARTIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $19,342 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE LIFESPACE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherROUND MOUNTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+21 more: $31,558 · Other+21 moreHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION: $86,900 · HealthHEARTGIFT FOUNDATIONTHE V FOUNDATION: $25,500 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,200 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D+1 more: $1,000 · HealthSTONEWALL HEADSTARTINC: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationWESTLAKE CHAP CLUB INC: $1,000 · EducationCargo Ranch Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $100 · Recreation & SportsAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTERS OF TEXAS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesQUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOW MINISTRIES: $2,000 · Religion
Other$194,900Health$123,600Education$23,000Recreation & Sports$10,100Philanthropy$10,000Human Services$6,000Religion$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION: $86,900 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEWALL HEADSTARTINC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LIFESPACE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTERS OF TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOW MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGLOBAL OUTREACH INC: $1,730 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWESTLAKE CHAP CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENSHO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds Cargo Ranch Inc ↗
  • Who funds STONEWALL HEADSTARTINC ↗
  • Who funds THE LIFESPACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTERS OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOW MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTLAKE CHAP CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DENSHO ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Austin Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carolyn and Mike Maples Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carolyn and Mike Maples Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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