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John and Maurine Cox Foundation at a glance

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John and Maurine Cox Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
94
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$3.9MEducation$2.5MHuman Services$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.6MEnvironment$1.1MAnimals$633kPublic Benefit$588kYouth Development$330kOther$0
02FY2024 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $189k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $497k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $800k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Flying T NIL Inc$1,000,000
Midland Memorial Hosp Foundation$500,000
TCU Univ Advancement Support$150,000
Selfless Love Foundation$100,000
Baylor Scott and White$100,000
University of Texas Permian Basin$100,000
Gladney Center for Adoption$50,000
Cook Childrens Health Foundation$50,000
TCU Frog Club$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Rice Owl Club$50,000
Young Life of Midland$50,000
Eisenhower Health$50,000
American Cancer Society$32,500
Aphasia Center of West Texas$30,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $868k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Gladney Center for Adoption: $50k → 11%Selfless Love Foundation: $105k → 11%Gladney Center for Adoption: $50k → 11%Selfless Love Foundation: $100k → 11%Gladney Center for Adoption: $50k → 11%Meals on Wheels: $20k → 12%Selfless Love Foundation: $5k → 11%Gladney Center for Adoption: $50k → 11%Meals on Wheels: $20k → 12%Selfless Love Foundation: $3k → 11%Gladney Center for Adoption: $50k → 11%Meals on Wheels: $20k → 12%Meals on Wheels: $20k → 12%Center for Transforming Lives: $20k → 11%Center for Transforming Lives: $15k → 11%Meals on Wheels: $20k → 12%Center for Transforming Lives: $10k → 11%Center for Transforming Lives: $10k → 11%Springboard Center: $10k → 14%Center for Transforming Lives: $10k → 11%United Way of Midland: $50k → 12%Springboard Center: $10k → 14%United Way of Midland: $10k → 12%Springboard Center: $10k → 14%Springboard Center: $10k → 14%Springboard Center: $10k → 14%United Way of Midland: $10k → 12%United Way of Midland: $10k → 12%United Way of Midland: $10k → 12%United Way of Midland: $10k → 12%Center for Children and Families: $20k → 12%Center for Children and Families: $20k → 12%Center for Children and Families: $10k → 12%Center for Children and Families: $10k → 12%Center for Children and Families: $10k → 12%Center for Children and Families: $10k → 12%Center for Children and Families: $10k → 12%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

NH
IL
MA
CA
CO
MD
TN
SC
DC
HI
OK
GA
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 104 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

104 repeat relationships: 88 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
41

Total granted

$10M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+17%

Still filing today

57%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +66%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +40%
  • TG
    THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • PB
    PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -91%
  • TR
    TCU Ralph Lowe Energy Institute
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +143%
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
Mission Health Care Inc

The organization operates an adult day care facility in midland, texas which offers a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive health and activity program for frail and impaired elderly and disabled residents.

Health
2
Methodist Hospitals of Dallas

The primary mission or purpose of methodist health system is to serve people in defined service areas by meeting their health needs effectively and in a manner that reflects a "commitment to the christian concepts of life and learning" as…

Health
3
Midland Community Healthcare Services Inc

Midland community healthcare services provides affordable, comprehensive, accessible, culturally appropriate, cost-effect, primary healthcare services to residents mainly in midland county.

Health
4
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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5
Family and Child Guidance Center

Our mission is to provide quality mental health services to children and adults in low income families who are impacted by severe and persistent mental illness, emotional disturbances, child abuse and neglect, high-risk behaviors and…

Health
6
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
7
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
8
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
9
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
10
ContinueCare Hospital of Tyler Inc

It is the mission of longview continuecare hospital and continuecare hospital of tyler, inc. to enhance community health through service with compassion, care, accountability, respect and empathy.

Health
11
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Midland Inc; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

80 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. 80 of the 152 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
53/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TCU Ralph Lowe Energy Institute: $1,000,000 · OtherTCU Ralph Lowe Energy InstituteMidland Memorial Hosp Foundation: $585,000 · OtherMidland Memorial Hosp FoundationUniversity of Texas Permian Basin: $500,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas Permian BasinTCU Univ Advancement Support: $300,000 · OtherRice Owl Club: $250,000 · OtherCook Childrens Health Foundation: $250,000 · OtherBaylor Scott and White: $250,000 · OtherYoung Life of Midland: $250,000 · Other+96 more: $3,090,824 · Other+96 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $1,170,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Cente…PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $1,001,000 · HealthPERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL…TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $300,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSP…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $162,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY …+12 more: $392,000 · Health+12 moreSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC: $1,030,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR LIFE MIDL…THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY CENT…SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $212,500 · Human ServicesSELFLESS LOVE FO…MEALS ON WHEELS: $100,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $100,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $90,000 · Human Services+4 more: $175,000 · Human Services+4 moreTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,001,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRIS…APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC: $160,000 · EducationAPHASIA CEN…COVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL: $60,000 · EducationBYNUM SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Education+4 more: $71,000 · EducationFLYING T NIL INC: $1,000,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $35,000 · PhilanthropyMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBUSH FAMILY HOME FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 · InternationalOneWorld Health: $25,000 · InternationalTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $5,000 · International
Other$6,475,824Health$3,025,500Human Services$2,057,500Education$1,392,000Philanthropy$1,035,000Arts & Culture$175,000International$105,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $1,170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC: $1,030,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $1,001,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,001,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLYING T NIL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $250,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $212,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $162,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAPHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC: $160,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $100,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $100,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBUSH TENNIS CENTER: $70,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $61,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPermian Basin Adult Literacy Center: $60,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMIDLAND FAIR HAVENS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND HUMANE COALITION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS WOUNDED WARRIORS: $50,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetJUBILEE CENTER OF MIDLAND INC: $50,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetHOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC: $35,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Association Against Sexual Assault Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF WEST TEXAS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIDLAND INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOneWorld Health: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% 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 Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FLYING T NIL INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds BUSH TENNIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
  • Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Permian Basin Adult Literacy Center ↗
  • Who funds College Golf Fellowship ↗
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Abell-Hanger Foundati…Permian Basin Area Fo…Helen Greathouse Char…Pevehouse Family Foun…Scharbauer Foundation…Beal FoundationWayne & Jo Ann Moore …Warren Charitable Fou…The Henry FoundationPaul and Katherine Mo…Bryant Family Foundat…Fmh Foundation
Abell-Hanger FoundationTX64.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Beal Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Paul and Katherine Morrow Family Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation · Fmh 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 John and Maurine Cox Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Maurine Cox Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to John and Maurine Cox Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John and Maurine Cox Foundation 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.

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 152 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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