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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 FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $436k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL SAINTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,000,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$600,000
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLAS FOUNDATION$350,000
CREATIVE ACTION$200,000
BNGF KATHERINE & AUSTIN WYKER FUND$100,000
HIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DAY SCHOOL$50,000
BNGF KATHERINE & AUSTIN WYKER FUND$50,000
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLAS FOUNDATION$35,000
TRAFFICK 911$30,000
THE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY$30,000
VOGEL$30,000
PARKLAND HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$30,000
DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$30,000
HHM HEALTH$30,000
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 (FY20–24, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BELLA HOUSE: $15k → 5%FOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%OUR CALLING: $15k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $25k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $50k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%THE YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $20k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY: $25k → 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

IN
NJ
CA
VA
NM
TN
DC
TX
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 17 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
21

Total granted

$12M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+4%

Still filing today

59%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $611k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +54%
  • TD
    The Dallas Opera
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +61%
  • BH
    Baylor Health Care System Foundation
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -20%
  • GI
    Goodwill Industries of Dallas Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
  • OK
    OPERATION KINDNESSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +129%
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
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
3
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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4
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
5
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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6
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Dallas Physician Medical Services for Children Inc

Provide dental, general pediatric, and pediatric sub-specialty services, including, but not limited to emergency department coverage, inpatient coverage, orthopedic surgery, and craniofacial orthodontics regardless of payor source or…

Health
8
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
9
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
10
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
11
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

—
12
Ronald McDonald House of Dallas Inc

Our mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We support the health and well-being of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment in the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is North Texas Boxer Rescue. 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

36 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. 36 of the 51 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL SAINTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2,000,000 · OtherALL SAINTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $1,017,500 · OtherBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLAS FOUNDATIONBNGF KATHERINE & AUSTIN WYKER FUND: $850,000 · OtherBNGF KATHERINE & AUSTIN WYKER FUNDBNGF THE MARK FUND: $410,000 · OtherBNGF THE MARK FUNDBNGF RLR FUND: $375,000 · OtherBNGF RLR FUND+16 more: $566,666 · Other+16 moreTexas A&M Foundation: $3,000,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL: $1,500,000 · EducationTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL+3 more: $338,500 · Education+3 moreThe Dallas Opera: $1,550,000 · Arts & CultureThe Dallas Op…Creative Action: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Acti…+2 more: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $1,452,500 · HealthBaylor Healt…+5 more: $165,000 · Health+5 moreGoodwill Industries of Dallas Inc: $1,000,000 · EmploymentEMANCIPET INC: $275,000 · AnimalsOPERATION KINDNESS: $50,000 · Animals+3 more: $25,500 · AnimalsDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $116,666 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE: $30,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY CO: $25,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesBella House Inc: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$5,219,166Education$4,838,500Arts & Culture$1,800,000Health$1,617,500Employment$1,000,000Animals$350,500Human Services$291,666

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 budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $3,000,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Dallas Opera: $1,550,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL: $1,500,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $1,452,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Dallas Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEMANCIPET INC: $275,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCreative Action: $200,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetEQUEST: $165,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetCulver Educational Foundation: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILL HOUSE MINISTRIES: $127,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $116,666 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL: $71,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTraffick911: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAGAPE CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR PARK FIRST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBella House Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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 Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Hillcrest FoundationThe Crystal Charity B…The Aileen and Jack P…The Bessemer Giving F…The Perot FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 51 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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