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Markham Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $605k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+2 grants · $640k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Charities - Dallas | $325,000 |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $315,000 |
| American Red Cross | $125,000 |
| Catholic Charities - Fort Worth | $75,000 |
| Save The Children | $50,000 |
| William Sheehan Lab for Economic Development | $25,000 |
| Cross Catholic Outreach | $25,000 |
| All Hands and Hearts | $25,000 |
| Project Finding Calcutta | $25,000 |
| Catholic CHESS Project | $25,000 |
| Mission ArlingtonMission Metroplex | $25,000 |
| Sudan Relief Fund | $25,000 |
| Project Hope | $25,000 |
| Union Gospel Mission of Fort Worth | $25,000 |
| Feed My Starving Children | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $840k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $570k · revenue +56%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +46%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH4× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- CCCatholic Charities Houstonone grant, 2017 · $25k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES USAone grant, 2017 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The cooperative for assistance and relief everywhere, inc. and its subsidiaries (care or the organization) was established in 1945 and is an international humanitarian organization delivering emergency relief and long-term international…
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
Compassion exists to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Compassion serves all children, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Climb Haier International Inc. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 59 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIMB HAIER INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds IN MY SHOES INC ↗
- Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ASK A BISHOP ↗
- Who funds METROPORT MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · America's Charities · The Dallas Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Kln Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Ken W Davis 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 Markham Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.