· Public charity
Mary Hays Institute
Our mission is to provide training and direct logistical support to charitable organizations allowing those organizations to focus on their primary mission.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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.
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.
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.
To advance and sustain interests in the state of Texas with an emphasis on increasing transparency and improving transparency in education within Texas.
To support legal, political & administrative efforts to protect fair voting.
The Texas Future Action Fund supports and elevates civic engagement efforts of organizations in Texas through grantmaking, donor education, and fundraising to build long-term political power in our state.
The Texas Future Civic Fund supports and elevates civic engagement efforts of organizations in Texas through grantmaking, donor education, and fundraising to ensure a healthy, fair, and reflective democracy.
Texas Gun Sense is a statewide nonprofit and nonpartisan organization advocating to prevent gun violence and other gun tragedies in Texas through education, partnerships, and policy change.
Advocate for the constitutionally protected freedom to choose where and how their children are educated and to further the common good and general welfare by empowering Texan families with the legal right to choose the best school for…
Texans for vaccine choice exists to directly influence vaccine choice public policy and legislation
Texans for vaccine freedom exists to implement state-wide vaccine choice education.
To provide legal and technical support to promote fair state legislative and congressional district boundaries in texas consistent with state and federal law.
To preserve and advance a culture of family values in the state of texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Texas Education Corporation and the most unlike its peers is American Stewards of Liberty Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.
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How do I get to Mary Hays Institute?
Find your warmest path to Mary Hays Institute 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.