· Private foundation
Martin & Arlyn Shields 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Love Must Act | $30,000 |
| Door County Med Center Foundation | $15,000 |
| My Life Speaks | $10,000 |
| Baylor University | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LEAP Global Missions | $5,000 |
| God's Garage | $5,000 |
| Brownsville Society for Crippled Ch | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| Operation Pets Alive | $5,000 |
| Tennessee Baptist Children's Home | $1,000 |
| Houston SPCA | $1,000 |
| YELOline Initiative | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Martin & Arlyn Shields Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +24%- BSBROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +210%
- GGGods Garage Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +98%
- CCCHRIST CHAPEL BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SHSAFE HAVEN CAT SANCTUARYone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
We rescue dogs and cats that require major medical treatment, we then provide them with veterinary care. rehabilitate them and then adopt the animals out into loving forever homes.
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…
The Fix Clinics mission is to promote the welfare of pets and their guardians by providing accessible, affordable, and timely spay and neuter services in Livingston Parish. In addition, we are committed to supporting partner organizations…
Prevention of animal cruelty and death
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…
Our mission is to resuce dogs and cats from the street. to spay or neuter, innoculate and care for them until homes are found. in addition, the second part of our mission is to educate the public ont he importance of spaying and neutering…
We are dedicated to rescuig animals left homeless for whatever reason, animals in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, animals given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse…
RED COLLAR RESCUE is an all-volunteer 501 (c) (3) animal welfare charity dedicated to rescuing and providing extensive medical care, foster care, training, rehabilitation, and adoptive placement to stray, abandoned, and abused dogs in…
Love And Puppy Paws Dog Rescue (LAPP Dog Rescue) was formed to help alleviate the stress of city and county animal control facilities around South and Central Texas. We accept dogs into our rescue that are in overpopulated animal control…
Rescue domestic home pets such as dogs and cats from being destroyed and to place them in homes where they will be properly cared for.
Rescuing abandoned, abused, or neglected pets from bastrop county and surrounding counties; bar assists with the care, treatement, and foster care for animals located in the local community.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds myLIFEspeaks ↗
- Who funds BROWNSVILLE SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Gods Garage Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PETS ALIVE ↗
- Who funds LEAP GLOBAL MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Citizens For Animal Protection Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YELOLINE INITIATIVE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Martin & Arlyn Shields Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin & Arlyn Shields Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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