· Public charity
Champions Off the Field
Mack, Jack & McConaughey (Mack Brown, Jack Ingram, & Matthew McConaughey) is a special two-day annual event supporting charitable organizations that reflect the MJ&M goal to empower children.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k4 grants · $425k
- $250k+5 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Just Keep Livin Foundation | $5,069,219 |
| Dell Children's Foundation | $3,300,000 |
| HeartGift Foundation | $2,678,768 |
| Rise School of Austin | $2,131,014 |
| Cure Duchenne | $1,960,000 |
| Make the Connection | $200,000 |
| Chief Cares Inc | $100,000 |
| Texas Heritage Songwriters Association | $75,000 |
| MuttNation Foundation | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +156% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JKJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +156% · 55% of their budget
- DCDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +111%
- TRTHE RISE SCHOOL OF AUSTIN8× · 2017–2025 · $8.7M · revenue +149% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- MOMUSICIANS ON CALL INCone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
- CFCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue -8%
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.
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.
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.
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…
To build and maintain donor relationships in order to raise, manage, and distribute funds to assist methodist health system in acquiring state-of-the-art technology, attracting excellent medical staff, and supporting vital hospital…
To raise funds to support mount sinai medical center of florida, inc., a not-for-profit acute care teaching and research facility, so that it may provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching,…
Its mission is to bring joy and comfort, laughter and healing to children and young adults who are chronically or terminally ill. it does so through personalized songs that honor the child. its motto is: the medicine of music.
Curebound's mission is to accelerate cancer research and save lives. we raise and invest strategic funding for innovative adult and pediatric cancer research with one vision: cures in our lifetime.
To raise funds to support programs of and increase the community awareness of the exempt purpose and charitable functions of the methodist health system.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.
M. d. anderson services corporation ("mdasc or the organization") serves as an instrument of the university of texas m. d. anderson cancer center ("mdacc") in its efforts to achieve its mission. mdacc's mission is to eliminate cancer in…
The tmc health foundation supports the charitable mission of tucson medical center and is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life in our community.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RISE SCHOOL OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURE DUCHENNE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HERITAGE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE THE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds MUTTNATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS ON CALL INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Champions Off the Field funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Champions Off the Field. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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