How much does Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation give?

Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $2,660,173 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (83%), Arts & Culture (5%), Health (5%).

Who are Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: McFaddin-Ward House Inc ($15M), CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF Southeast Texas ($533k), Garth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc ($170k).

Does Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mechia Foundation, Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc, He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust.

Where is Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation based?

Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 33
Grants FY2024: 30
Organizations funded FY2023: 23%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,258,769
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 31; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $37M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	32	$2.7M	31%
FY2023	30	$2.7M	23%
FY2022	16	$2.9M	38%
FY2021	18	$2.0M	22%
FY2020	31	$2.0M	39%
FY2019	23	$1.9M	43%
FY2018	20	$2.3M	55%
FY2017	16	$1.7M	n/a

99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$15MArts & Culture$881kHealth$838kFood & Nutrition$255kEducation$232kCrime & Legal$227kPublic Benefit$150kYouth Development$145kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
McFaddin-Ward House Inc	$14,662,638	8	99%
CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF Southeast Texas	$533,050	5	5%
Garth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc	$170,173	3	7%
Beaumont Heritage Center	$166,747	6	19%
City of Beaumont	$150,000	1	n/a
All Saints Episcopal School	$124,083	3	n/a
Baptist Hospital of Setx Foundation	$110,800	2	6%
Some Other Place	$107,204	5	2%
Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	27%
Nutrition and Services for Seniors	$97,678	7	0%

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All grantees of Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
McFaddin-Ward House Inc	$14,662,638	8	99%
CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF Southeast Texas	$533,050	5	5%
Garth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc	$170,173	3	7%
Beaumont Heritage Center	$166,747	6	19%
City of Beaumont	$150,000	1	n/a
All Saints Episcopal School	$124,083	3	n/a
Baptist Hospital of Setx Foundation	$110,800	2	6%
Some Other Place	$107,204	5	2%
Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	27%
Nutrition and Services for Seniors	$97,678	7	0%
Art Museum of Southeast Texas	$85,344	8	2%
Beaumont Botanical Gardens Inc	$75,709	2	18%
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc	$67,000	4	0%
Southeast Texas Family Resource Center Inc	$60,521	6	3%
Girls' Haven Inc	$53,400	4	0%
Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program	$47,500	3	2%
Beaumont Farmers Market	$47,092	3	47%
Beaumont Community Players Inc dba Southeast Texas Stages	$44,600	3	6%
Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest	$40,000	1	n/a
Texas Energy Museum Inc	$35,460	3	3%
Samaritan Counseling Center of Southeast Texas	$35,000	2	4%
Boy Scouts of America - Three Rivers Council	$32,825	3	1%
Nehemiah's Vision Inc	$30,000	1	4%
Iea - Inspire Encourage Achieve	$30,000	4	2%
St Marks Episcopal Church	$30,000	1	n/a
Communities in Schools Southeast Texas	$30,000	3	0%
Anayat House Inc	$26,001	6	6%
Southeast Texas Emergency Relief Fd	$25,000	1	3%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$25,000	1	0%
Lamar University Foundation Inc	$24,200	2	0%
Stable-Spirit	$22,433	4	6%
Symphony of Southeast Texas Inc	$21,000	1	2%
Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House Rest Oration Maintenance & Management	$20,000	1	7%
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council	$17,000	3	0%
Big Thicket Association	$16,400	3	4%
Mental Health America of Southeast Texas	$12,770	2	11%
Child Abuse & Beyond Inc	$11,865	3	2%
Magnolia Cemetery Corporation	$10,000	1	8%
Orange County Disaster Rebuild	$8,500	1	1%
Southeast Texas Nonprofit Development Center	$8,415	2	6%
Fishers of Men Ministries	$7,500	1	n/a
Beaumont Interfaith Choral Society	$7,096	3	16%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Beaumont Pets Alive	$5,000	1	3%
Beaumont Civic Ballet	$5,000	1	4%
Tyrrell Historical Library	$5,000	1	4%
The Beaumont Children's Museum	$4,946	1	1%
The Hughen Center Inc	$4,900	1	0%
Magnolia Garden Club	$4,000	1	8%
Jefferson County Long Term Recovery Group Inc	$4,000	1	2%
Orange County Special Angels Rodeo	$1,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($931k), not named here.

Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 46.

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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.

Mechia FoundationTX50.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation

How much does Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation give?: Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $2,660,173 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (83%), Arts & Culture (5%), Health (5%).
Who are Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: McFaddin-Ward House Inc ($15M), CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF Southeast Texas ($533k), Garth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc ($170k).
Does Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mechia Foundation, Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc, He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust.
Where is Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation based?: Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation is based in TX.