How much does Mark Foundation give?

Mark Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $2,813,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Mark Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (19%), Religion (14%).

Who are Mark Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Texas A&M Foundation ($3.0M), All Saints Presbyterian Church ($2.0M), The Dallas Opera ($1.6M).

Does Mark Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mark Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mark Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, The Rees-Jones Foundation.

Where is Mark Foundation based?

Mark Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Mark Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 29
Grants FY2024: 19
Organizations funded FY2023: 53%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 19; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $55M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Mark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationEmploymentHousing & 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	21	$2.8M	62%
FY2023	19	$3.7M	53%
FY2022	19	$3.9M	47%
FY2021	17	$3.0M	29%
FY2020	14	$1.8M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.7MHealth$2.9MReligion$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.7MArts & Culture$1.6MEmployment$1.0MAnimals$351kYouth Development$220kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Texas A&M Foundation	$3,000,000	5	0%
All Saints Presbyterian Church	$2,000,000	3	n/a
The Dallas Opera	$1,550,000	3	4%
The Lamplighter School	$1,500,000	1	7%
Baylor Health Care System Foundation	$1,452,500	4	1%
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc	$1,000,000	1	3%
Emancipet Inc	$275,000	4	0%
Creative Action	$200,000	1	4%
Equest	$165,000	3	7%
Culver Educational Foundation	$140,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Mark Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Texas A&M Foundation	$3,000,000	5	0%
All Saints Presbyterian Church	$2,000,000	3	n/a
The Dallas Opera	$1,550,000	3	4%
The Lamplighter School	$1,500,000	1	7%
Baylor Health Care System Foundation	$1,452,500	4	1%
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc	$1,000,000	1	3%
Emancipet Inc	$275,000	4	0%
Creative Action	$200,000	1	4%
Equest	$165,000	3	7%
Culver Educational Foundation	$140,000	4	0%
Hill House Ministries	$127,500	5	11%
Dallas Children's Advocacy Center	$116,666	3	0%
Highland Park Presbyterian Day School	$71,000	1	2%
Operation Kindness	$50,000	1	1%
Children's Medical Center Foundation	$50,000	2	0%
Advocates for Community Transformation	$40,000	2	1%
Healing Hands Ministries Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Vogel Alcove	$30,000	1	0%
Traffick911	$30,000	1	1%
Parkland Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum	$30,000	1	0%
The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology	$30,000	1	1%
Behind Every Door Ministries Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Forefront Living Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Hope Supply Co	$25,000	1	1%
The Crystal Charity Ball	$25,000	1	0%
Agape Clinic	$25,000	1	0%
YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Fair Park First	$20,000	1	0%
Dallas County Mental Health & Mental Retardation Center	$20,000	1	n/a
Buckner Children & Family Services Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Family Gateway Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Ourcalling Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Bella House Inc	$15,000	1	4%
North Texas Boxer Rescue	$10,500	2	n/a
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Wings of Rescue Inc	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 35.

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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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX27.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Crystal Charity Ball · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Perot Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Texas Instruments 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.

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About Mark Foundation

How much does Mark Foundation give?: Mark Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $2,813,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Mark Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (19%), Religion (14%).
Who are Mark Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Texas A&M Foundation ($3.0M), All Saints Presbyterian Church ($2.0M), The Dallas Opera ($1.6M).
Does Mark Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mark Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mark Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, The Rees-Jones Foundation.
Where is Mark Foundation based?: Mark Foundation is based in TX.