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.

Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation

Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.3M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% 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

02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $84k
$10k–50k10 grants · $196k
$50k–250k5 grants · $518k
$250k+2 grants · $1.9M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$37M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
BAPTIST HOSPITALS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOUNDATION	$100,000
BOLIVAR POINT LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC	$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

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$18M · 43 repeat orgs$607k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$18M

$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+38%

Still filing today

65%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

MH
McFaddin-Ward House Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +62% · 99% of their budget
CH
CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF Southeast Texas
5× · 2017–2024 · $533k · revenue +64%
GH
Garth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc
3× · 2017–2019 · $170k · revenue +42%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF BEAUMONT
one grant, 2022 · $150k
ET
EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST
one grant, 2020 · $40k
ST
SOUTHEAST TEXAS EMERGENCY RELIEF FD
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -58%

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.

Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve

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.

Environment

Texas Garden Clubs

To sustain a public garden center and provide educational tours for the public.

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The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

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.

Human Services

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

Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History

To stimulate understanding of natural and cultural history, and to encourage responsible stewardship of all natural resources.

Arts & Culture

Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies

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Genetic Resource Association of Texas

Health

Texas Flying Legends Museum

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Bellville Turnverein Pavilion Restoration Project

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…

Community Improvement

Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust

We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.

Environment

Seguin-Guadalupe County Heritage Museum Inc

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Brazoria County Historical Museum

Preserve the history of brazoria county, texas.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beaumont Heritage Center; 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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 76 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/46

Grantees still filing

28/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$16,738,100Human Services$645,976Arts & Culture$462,097Health$193,503Environment$79,709Food & Nutrition$47,092Philanthropy$33,415

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home