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Graves Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$36,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Graves Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$140k36%
FY202310$140k30%
FY202212$160k75%
FY20217$140k57%
FY20205$135k100%
FY20194$135k50%
FY20186$145k17%
FY20176$140kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$412kInternational$217kEmployment$183kYouth Development$99kHuman Services$85kFood & Nutrition$65kHealth$56kReligion$23kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($607k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Graves Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMercy Ships International: $199,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Southeastern Illinois College Foundation: $160,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Central Texas Inc: $88,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Opportunity Plan Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetVernon College Foundation Incorporated: $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant Health System Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHardeman County Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetHarrisburg Medical Center Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCreated With Purpose of West Texas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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How do I get to Graves Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Graves Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Graves Foundation Inc

How much does Graves Foundation Inc give?
Graves Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $140,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Graves Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), International (19%), Employment (16%).
Who are Graves Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mercy Ships International ($199k), The Southeastern Illinois College Foundation ($160k), Boys & Girls Club of Central Texas Inc ($89k).
Does Graves Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Graves Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Graves Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Graves Foundation Inc based?
Graves Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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