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Marchant Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$125kEducation$79kPhilanthropy$8kHealth$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kHuman Services$3kRecreation & Sports$3kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$800
Median grant
4
States reached
$624k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN NAZAREENE UNIVERSITY$29,582
NAZAREENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$10,000
CARROLLTON CHURCH NAZARENE$5,500
MOUVEMENT MISSIONAIRE CHRETIEN$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
METROCREST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$1,250
COPPELL ARTS$1,000
HEBRON HIGH SCHOOL$800
CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH$550
Individual grant recipient$500
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$500
DALLAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE$500
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$200
Individual grant recipient$100
KERA$60
02The need
03

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 (FY17–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEURO FITNESS FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%SOARING EAGLE CENTER: $1k → 14%SOARING EAGLE CENTER: $1k → 14%SOARING EAGLE CENTER: $500 → 14%SOARING EAGLE CENTER: $100 → 14%SOARING EAGLE CENTER: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
CA
MO
VA
KS
SC
OK
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 23 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +163% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
42

Total granted

$203k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+163%
+43%

Still filing today

26%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionCrime & LegalPublic 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

  • SN
    SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +24%
  • MV
    Myra Volunteer Fire Department
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +374%
  • HS
    High Soaring Eagle Center Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • S
    SCOTTSVILLE
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • BM
    Barn Ministry
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • SP
    ST PETERS
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

1
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
North Texas Christian Foundation

National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.

Philanthropy
3
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
4
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
5
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
6
Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education
7
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
8
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
9
Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation

To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.

Health
10
The Real Estate Council Inc

Trec's mission is to cultivate relationships in the commercial real estate industry to catalyze community investment, influence policy, propel careers and develop the leaders of tomorrow.we believe relationships are the lifeblood of career…

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11
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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12
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Barn Ministry. 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

25 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. 25 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $42,100 · OtherNAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYCARROLLTON CHURCH NAZARENE: $35,500 · OtherCARROLLTON CHURCH NAZARENECARROLLTON CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: $17,000 · OtherCARROLLTON CHURCH OF THE NAZARENECARROLLTON NAZARENE CHURCH: $11,000 · OtherCARROLLTON NAZARENE CHURCHSCOTTSVILLE: $7,500 · Other+51 more: $42,077 · Other+51 moreSOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $73,882 · EducationSOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY+3 more: $550 · EducationBarn Ministry: $3,000 · ReligionHeart of Texas Baptist Camp and Conference Center: $500 · ReligionYOU CONNECTION INC: $200 · ReligionHigh Soaring Eagle Center Inc: $2,700 · Human ServicesNeuro Fitness Foundation: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC: $1,000 · HealthCarson Leslie Foundation: $250 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $100 · HealthTexas Oncology Foundation Inc: $100 · HealthCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $560 · Arts & Culture
Other$155,177Education$74,432Religion$3,700Human Services$3,300Health$1,450Crime & Legal$1,000Arts & Culture$560

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $73,882 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMyra Volunteer Fire Department: $3,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetHigh Soaring Eagle Center Inc: $2,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMETROCREST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $560 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRAPEVINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeuro Fitness Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNOCONA RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $450 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEBRON BAND BOOSTER CLUB: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarson Leslie Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Oncology Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAGUE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Myra Volunteer Fire Department ↗
  • Who funds Barn Ministry ↗
  • Who funds High Soaring Eagle Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds METROCREST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAPEVINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds Neuro Fitness Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Heart of Texas Baptist Camp and Conference Center ↗
  • Who funds NOCONA RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX12.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Marchant Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marchant Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Southern Nazarene University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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