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Mark a Chapman 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.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
212
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$5.0MAnimals$264kHuman Services$239kYouth Development$190kPublic Safety & Disaster$145kFood & Nutrition$79kRecreation & Sports$73kHousing & Shelter$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 212 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k164 grants · $490k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $468k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $766k
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.5M
$3,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$823k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$4,000,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$500,000
Individual grant recipient$175,806
FAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER$125,000
PREVENT UNWANTED PETS$100,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$100,000
CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$65,000
UW OSHKOSH FOUNDATION$50,000
COLORADO COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
MARK A CHAPMAN YMCA AT KATY MAIN ST$50,000
CAT SPRING AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY$50,000
B4RAW BOARDING FOR RESCUES & ANIMAL WELFARE$30,000
Individual grant recipient$26,432
AUSTIN HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
CITIZENS FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION CAP$25,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS: $5k → 10%SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES: $5k → 12%COVENANT HOUSE - HOUSTON: $5k → 16%TEXAS WOMEN'S LEAGUE: $10k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON: $10k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS - HOUSTON: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your field

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.

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Texas Rescue Inc
Animals
2
Allies Haven Animal Rescue

Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…

Animals
3
Pippys Pals Rescue

Pippys Pals Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of dogs facing euthanasia in Houston. Our mission is to provide a second chance to these beloved companions by rescuing them from shelters, providing them with necessary medical care, and…

Animals
4
Poodle Rescue of Houston

Rescue of unwanted dogs

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Paws of Austin Protection of Animal Welfare Services

PAWS' purpose is to provide refuge to stray and unwanted animals. PAWS' mission is to prevent cruelty to all animals by promoting humane standards through education and example, to provide care and shelter for homeless animals, aid in the…

Animals
6
Throw a Dog a Bone Dog Rescue

Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…

Animals
7
Houston Cares Animal Rescue

Houston Cares Rescue is a volunteer organization rescuing animals from the streets, and occasionally from shelters, in Houston, TX, and caring for them primarily with foster families until a loving home can be found. We operate a…

Animals
8
Chances - Dog Rescue and Relocation

Animal Rescue

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The Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue

Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue is a no-kill organization dedicated to providing a safe and healthy environment along with quality care until loving homes can be found. We also provide sanctuary care for ferrets that are not adoptable due to…

Animals
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Seagoville Texas Animal Advocates

Rescue dogs that have been abused

Animals
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Animal Friends of Port Aransas Inc

Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.

Animals
12
Sunnyside Street Dogs I

Community dog rescue focused on saving and rehoming street dogs in Houston.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Columbus Historic Preservation Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionVolunteer Fire DepartmentsChild and Family ServicesYouth Development CentersWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Christian Youth CampsVeteran Support ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Public University Foundatio…Community Health CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr10%90%35–55yr13%3%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,748

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.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 204 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
22/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS RECIPIENTS — $10,452,902 · OtherVARIOUS RECIPIENTS+168 more — $1,112,138 · Other+168 moreTexas A&M Foundation — $4,600,000 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation+2 more — $68,500 · EducationPREVENT UNWANTED PETS — $100,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $25,000 · AnimalsCitizens For Animal Protection Inc — $25,000 · AnimalsLucies Project — $10,000 · AnimalsFREEDOM STREET RESCUE INC — $10,000 · AnimalsGardenia E Janssen Animal Shelter — $10,000 · AnimalsBURTTSCHELL RESCUE RANCH — $10,000 · Animals+5 more — $22,100 · AnimalsCAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN — $65,000 · Public Safety & DisasterUnited Cajun Navy — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTEXAS EQUUSEARCH MOUNTED SEARCH AND RECOVERY — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCAJUN NAVY 2016 — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNEW LIFE REFUGE MINISTRIES — $10,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS WOMENS LEAGUE — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $5,000 · Human ServicesKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON — $5,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $2,000 · Human ServicesCat Spring Agricultural Society — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,500 · Food & NutritionSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $20,000 · ReligionMTN2SEA MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Religion
Other$11,565,040Education$4,668,500Animals$212,100Public Safety & Disaster$95,000Human Services$52,000Food & Nutrition$51,500Religion$30,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $4,600,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPREVENT UNWANTED PETS — $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN — $65,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC — $63,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW LIFE REFUGE MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS WOMENS LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURTTSCHELL RESCUE RANCH — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADAM'S ANGELS MINISTRY — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAggieland Humane Society — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTwin City Mission — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationBaker Hughes Foundati…The Marie M and James…Stephen & Mary Birch …Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …The Community Foundat…Celanese FoundationRaymond James Charita…Enterprise Holdings F…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX24× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Marie M and James H Galloway Foundation · Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Celanese Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation

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 Mark a Chapman 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.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mark a Chapman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mark a Chapman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 204 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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