· Private foundation
Mads Engelstoft 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Rotary Foundation | $100,000 |
| Kjaer Sanctuary Inc | $35,000 |
| Rotary International | $34,000 |
| Union Chappel Global Methodist | $20,000 |
| Union Chappel Global Methodist | $10,000 |
| Friends of Khan Academy Philippines | $8,500 |
| Brazos Youth Fair Boosters | $4,000 |
| Rotary International | $3,000 |
| Wordserve Methodist Church | $3,000 |
| Brookshire Methodist Church | $3,000 |
| MS Enverga University Fdn | $1,765 |
| Misfits Mission | $1,000 |
| Family Directed Ed Foundation | $1,000 |
| Family Hope | $500 |
| The Ballard House | $400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 78% of grant dollars ($686k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 22% that went abroad ($189k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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
Beyond the US: 22% of all-years giving ($189k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Mads Engelstoft Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 13 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFirst United Methodist Church2× · 2022–2023 · $67k
- RIRotary International2× · 2024–2025 · $38k
- WUWordserve United Methodist Church2× · 2022–2023 · $22k
Funded once
- STSave The Childrenone grant, 2024 · $100k
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +0%- FFFirst Fulshear Methodist Churchone grant, 2024 · $92k
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.
We sponsor charitable, educational, humanitarian, and cultural projects, which include rapid response to natural disasters, assisting victims of natural disasters, and assisting victims of human trafficking as physical and mental abuse.
Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.
Asian Pacific Children Fund supports orphanages in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Southern India in the area of education and medical services.
The Impact100 model empowers women to see themselves as philanthropists and overcome the barriers women have historically faced in this arena. The model is designed for transformational grant-making within local communities.
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
Established to rescue enslaved families within the islamic republic of pakistan by freeing them and helping them rebuild their lives.
Helping families permanently escape homelessness.
To provide a clean, safe, nurturing environment for children placed by child protective services.
The organization builds houses in mexico for families in need. the constructed homes of block and wood will endure for generations.
The mission of STARR of Hope, in collaboration with the community resources, is to provide prevention, intervention, and advocacy for women and children who experience domestic abuse or violence in Starr, Zapata and Jim Hogg Counties.
Mercy Force International is dedicated to serve at-risk children and families in Southeast Asia through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The mission of Foster Village is to come alongside children and families in the child welfare system and show them that they are not alone.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 41 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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KHAN ACADEMY PHILIPPINES ↗
- Who funds MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GK 1 WORLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE CARING FOR THE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Abigail's Place ↗
- Who funds FAMILY DIRECTED EDUCATION FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds Brazosport Rotary Club ↗
- Who funds MISFIT MISSION ↗
- Who funds ASIANS AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds CINCO CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FULSHEAR OUTREACH & DEVELOPMENT CORP FAMILY HOPE ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF EL CAMPO ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mads Engelstoft Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mads Engelstoft Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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