Texas · Private foundation
Joe and Van Mabee Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $125k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Joe and Van Mabee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $125k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $121k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $105k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $152k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $147k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $136k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $126k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $105k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornerstone Christian School | $225,000 | 9 | 2% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $187,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Lightning Boy Foundation Inc | $142,000 | 8 | 15% |
| Midland Humane Coalition Inc | $115,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Freedom Service Dogs Inc | $102,730 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of New Mexico Foundation | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hospice of Midland Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Christmas in Action Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Bush Tennis Center | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Midland Teen Court Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($264k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joe and Van Mabee Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Joe and Van Mabee Foundation
- How much does Joe and Van Mabee Foundation give?
- Joe and Van Mabee Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $125,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joe and Van Mabee Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (20%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Joe and Van Mabee Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cornerstone Christian School ($225k), The Santa Fe Opera ($188k), Lightning Boy Foundation Inc ($142k).
- Does Joe and Van Mabee Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joe and Van Mabee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joe and Van Mabee Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Abell-Hanger Foundation, John and Maurine Cox Foundation, Bryant Family Foundation.
- Where is Joe and Van Mabee Foundation based?
- Joe and Van Mabee Foundation is based in TX.
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