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Margaret Marie Graf Foundation at a glance

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Margaret Marie Graf Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$48kHuman Services$30kEducation$18kReligion$18kInternational$16kFood & Nutrition$15kCrime & Legal$15kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$387k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO$1,000
02The need
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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, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%MEDINA CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 12%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES SERVI: $3k → 10%MEDINA CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 12%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES SERVI: $3k → 10%MEDINA CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 12%Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services: $1k → 10%MEDINA CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 12%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES SERVI: $3k → 10%Medina Children's Home: $1k → 12%Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services: $1k → 10%MEDINA CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 12%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES SERVI: $2k → 10%Medina Children's Home: $1k → 12%Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services: $900 → 10%Medina Children's Home: $1k → 12%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES SERVI: $1k → 10%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

NY
CA
NE
WV
MD
KS
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187k · 28 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
5

Total granted

$187k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
-4%

Still filing today

57%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • ML
    MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +94%
  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +71%
  • AS
    AUSTIN SAMARITANS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • LG
    LAUNCH GLOBAL
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -4%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

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

Religion
3
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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4
National Church Residences At Home Hospice Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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5
National Church Residences At Home Health and Wellness Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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6
National Church Residences At Home Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.

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7
National Church Residences At Home Hospice

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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8
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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9
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
10
United Church of Christ Homes Inc

In the spirit of christ's love, the ministry of united church of christ homes is to provide care and service to elders through acts of love and compassion.

Human Services
11
Criswell College

The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.

Education
12
San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc

Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medina Children's Home; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness 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

18 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. 18 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARM PRISON MINISTRY: $12,000 · OtherCHARM PRISON MINISTRYIndividual grant recipient: $10,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNeema Village: $7,000 · OtherNeema VillageRELIANT MISSION INC: $4,500 · OtherRELIANT MISSION INCTHE CARVER ACADEMY INC: $2,500 · OtherSHRINER'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,000 · OtherWork Training Center: $2,000 · OtherSaint Francis Academy: $1,800 · Other+8 more: $9,000 · Other+8 moreDisability Resources Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesDisability Resources IncPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $13,400 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HO…MEDINA CHILDREN'S HOME: $9,000 · Human ServicesMEDINA CHILDREN'S HOMESOTERIA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS: $7,500 · Human ServicesSOTERIA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIO…THE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $8,500 · HealthTHE ARC OF SAN AN…TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $7,700 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RI…THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FI…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $4,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITAL…ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $4,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT INC …MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $14,500 · ReligionMOBILE LO…LAUNCH GLOBAL: $2,000 · ReligionLAUNCH GL…AUSTIN SAMARITANS: $13,000 · InternationalAUSTIN SA…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …GRACE HOUSE INC: $12,500 · Crime & LegalSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $9,000 · EducationBETA UPSILON CHI FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $10,300 · Housing & Shelter
Other$51,300Human Services$44,900Health$29,200Religion$16,500International$16,000Crime & Legal$12,500Education$12,500Housing & Shelter$10,300

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 budgetDisability Resources Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $14,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $13,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN SAMARITANS: $13,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGRACE HOUSE INC: $12,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $10,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDINA CHILDREN'S HOME: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $7,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOTERIA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETA UPSILON CHI FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAUNCH GLOBAL: $2,000 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 Disability Resources Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN SAMARITANS ↗
  • Who funds GRACE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDINA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SOTERIA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL ↗
  • Who funds BETA UPSILON CHI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARVER ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUNCH GLOBAL ↗

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Christian Community F…Enterprise Holdings F…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
San Antonio Area FoundationTX15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Margaret Marie Graf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret Marie Graf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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