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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.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
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Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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Median grant
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States reached
$313k
Total assets
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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 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.

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Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation
Philanthropy
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Texans for Texas

To advance and sustain interests in the state of Texas with an emphasis on increasing transparency and improving transparency in education within Texas.

Employment
3
Texas Justice Fund

To support legal, political & administrative efforts to protect fair voting.

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4
Texas Future Action Fund

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.

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Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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Texas Future Civic Fund

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.

Philanthropy
7
Texas Gun Sense

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.

Civil Rights
8
Texans for Parental Choice in Education

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…

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Texans for Vaccine Choice

Texans for vaccine choice exists to directly influence vaccine choice public policy and legislation

Health
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Texans for Vaccine Freedom

Texans for vaccine freedom exists to implement state-wide vaccine choice education.

Health
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Texas Justice and Education Fund

To provide legal and technical support to promote fair state legislative and congressional district boundaries in texas consistent with state and federal law.

Civil Rights
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Texas Values

To preserve and advance a culture of family values in the state of texas.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Texas Education Corporation; 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.

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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.
04Through Plinth

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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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, 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 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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