· Private foundation
Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $518k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCFADDIN WARD HOUSE INC | $1,258,769 |
| MCFADDIN WARD HOUSE INC | $603,777 |
| CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS | $150,000 |
| BEAUMONT HERITAGE SOCIETY | $104,500 |
| BOLIVAR POINT LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| BAPTIST HOSPITALS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BEAUMONT BOTANICAL GARDENS | $63,209 |
| NEHEMIAH'S VISION INC | $30,000 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $30,000 |
| BEAUMONT FARMERS MARKET | $27,348 |
| SOME OTHER PLACE | $25,000 |
| SYMPHONY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS | $21,000 |
| NUTRITION & SERVICES FOR SENIORS | $16,750 |
| ART MUSEUM OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS | $14,000 |
| SHORKEY EDUCATION & REHABILITATION CENTER | $11,516 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $646k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
43 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MHMcFaddin-Ward House Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +62% · 99% of their budget
- CHCHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF Southeast Texas5× · 2017–2024 · $533k · revenue +64%
- GHGarth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $170k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- COCITY OF BEAUMONTone grant, 2022 · $150k
- ETEPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWESTone grant, 2020 · $40k
- STSOUTHEAST TEXAS EMERGENCY RELIEF FDone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -58%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve's mission is community-based conservation to reconnect people with the natural and cultural environment while promoting sustainable economic growth in Southeast Texas.
To sustain a public garden center and provide educational tours for the public.
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
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.
To stimulate understanding of natural and cultural history, and to encourage responsible stewardship of all natural resources.
To promote, support, seek financial assistance and generate funds for the restoration, enhancement and preservation of the historical character of the Bellville Turnverein together with its adjacent grounds and adjoining structures, and to…
We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.
Preserve the history of brazoria county, texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beaumont Heritage Center and the most unlike its peers is Beaumont Botanical Gardens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 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. 46 of the 76 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds McFaddin-Ward House Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF Southeast Texas ↗
- Who funds Garth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HOSPITAL OF SETX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Some Other Place ↗
- Who funds Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds Art Museum of Southeast Texas ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Family Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS' HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds Beaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ENERGY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Counseling Center of Southeast Texas ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds IEA - INSPIRE ENCOURAGE ACHIEVE ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools Southeast Texas ↗
- Who funds NEHEMIAH'S VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Anayat House Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST TEXAS EMERGENCY RELIEF FD ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Lamar University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Stable-Spirit ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Mechia Foundation · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation · B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust · Young Mens Business League of Beaumont · H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr · Mildred Yount Manion Charitable Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Juanita Parker Corbin Charitable Tr Charitable Trust · Simpson-Omohundro Foundation Omohundro Educational Trust · Helen Bell Charitable Trust 1115004314
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 Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage 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.
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.