· Private foundation
Graves Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY SHIPS | $36,000 |
| CHRISTIAN OUTREACH FOOD MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,500 |
| JOSH HULME MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $18,000 |
| CROWELL METHODIST CHURCH | $9,000 |
| THE CENTER-PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER IN VERNON | $7,500 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY COMPASSION CENTER INC | $7,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HARRISBURG IL | $4,000 |
| HARRISBURG MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $1,000 |
| CREATED WITH PURPOSE OF WEST TEXAS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +118% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Mercy Ships International4× · 2020–2024 · $199k · revenue +126%- TSTHE SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $160k · revenue +104%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- SISOUTHEAST ILLINOIS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2020 · $32k
- TOTHE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +84%
- VCVERNON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +7%
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.
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Brenham, to encourage broad-based public support of Baylor Scott & White Health, and to advance its medical objectives, including patient care, and…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
It is the mission of the marshall hospital foundation to promote growth of gsmc-marshall through a broad-based program of funding and to support the hospitals mission to identify and provide exemplary healthcare in a safe and caring…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 35 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 Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds VERNON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARDEMAN COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Harrisburg Medical Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATED WITH PURPOSE OF WEST TEXAS ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Graves Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Graves Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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