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Mai Tian Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.

Education$17kArts & Culture$11kScience & Tech$7kRecreation & Sports$2kYouth Development$699Animals$100Public Safety & Disaster$100Community Improvement$50
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$100
Median grant
2
States reached
$265k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mayborn Museum$10,520
Cedar Park Public Library Foundation$10,500
Fudan University Education Development Foundation$6,000
Joy Park for All Children$1,500
Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots$599
Individual grant recipient$300
Individual grant recipient$200
UT Austin$200
University of Dallas$150
Individual grant recipient$150
U Houston$150
Baylor University$100
Dallas Zoo$100
Central Texas College Foundation$100
Play for All Foundation$100
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Fudan University Education Development Foundation: $6k → 11%Cedar Park Public Library Foundation: $11k → 6%Play for All Foundation: $100 → 10%Travis County Parks Foundation: $100 → 10%Texas AM University at Galveston: $500 → 14%Dallas Zoo: $100 → 14%Temple College: $100 → 14%The DoSeum: $50 → 16%Mayborn Museum: $11k → 16%U Houston: $150 → 16%Falls on the Colorado Museum: $20 → 17%Texas AM University: $100 → 22%Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots: $599 → 6%Texas State University: $50 → 10%University of Texas at Austin: $5k → 10%University of Dallas: $150 → 14%Central Texas College Foundation: $100 → 14%University of Texas at San Antonio: $300 → 16%Baylor University: $100 → 16%Houston Museum of Natural Science: $300 → 16%Texas A&M University: $100 → 22%Joy Park for All Children: $2k → 6%UT Austin: $200 → 10%UT Dallas: $150 → 14%Friends of the Round Rock Public Library: $50 → 6%Travis Audubon: $100 → 10%University of Texas at Dallas: $100 → 14%Bee Cave Arts Foundation: $50 → 10%UNT Dallas: $300 → 14%Texas Police Association: $100 → 10%Frontiers of Flight Museum: $50 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Texas Flying Legends Museum
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2
The Museum of North Texas History

To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.

Arts & Culture
3
Texas Association of Museums

The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
4
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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5
Lone Star Flight Museum

Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.

Arts & Culture
6
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Texas Forestry Museum

To educate the public about forestry and preserve the history of the forestry industry.

Arts & Culture
9
Texas Museum of Science & Technology

Our mission is to engage the scientist in all of us by igniting a spirit of inquiry. We strive to

Arts & Culture
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
Museum of Texas Tech University Association

The association promotes and supports the museum of texas tech university and assists in securing monies, members, collections, and general goodwill or the educational and building programs of the museum.

Arts & Culture
12
Houston Geological Society Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Dallas and the most unlike its peers is Cedar Park Public Library Foundation. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mayborn Museum — $10,520 · OtherMayborn MuseumUniversity of Texas at Austin — $5,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas at AustinJOY PARK FOR ALL CHILDREN — $1,500 · OtherJOY PARK FOR ALL CHILDREN+18 more — $3,249 · Other+18 moreCEDAR PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $10,500 · EducationCEDAR PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONFUDAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EducationFUDAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION+3 more — $350 · EducationHouston Museum of Natural Science — $300 · Arts & CultureFRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM INC — $50 · Arts & CultureBEE CAVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $50 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $50 · Arts & CultureThe Falls on the Colorado Museum — $20 · Arts & CultureTravis County Parks Foundation — $100 · Public BenefitTravis Audubon Society Inc — $100 · Environment
Other$20,269Education$16,850Arts & Culture$470Public Benefit$100Environment$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis County Parks Foundation — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Audubon Society Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS POLICE ASSOCIATION — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEE CAVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mai Tian Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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