· Private foundation
Mary Hobbs Griffith 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 $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN PATRICIO AND ARANSAS COUNTIES A & H SHOW INC | $40,000 |
| SKIDMORE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $27,500 |
| SHADES OF GREEN LEGACY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOUND OFF INC | $25,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| PAPALOTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $17,500 |
| BEEVILLE ART ASSOCIATION INC | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC MUSIC INITIATIVE INC | $15,000 |
| SINTON TX HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $12,500 |
| BRACKENRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CIBOLO WILDERNESS | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 17% of Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 69%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABEEVILLE ART ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +13% · 39% of their budget
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +78%- SOSOUND OFF3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- JDJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Artsone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- YDYouth Development Foundation of Port Aransasgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +28%
- THTHE HEALER WITHIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
The San Antonio Museum of Art brings people together with art by collecting, preserving, and presenting significant works of art representing a broad range of history and cultures, advancing human connection and understanding, and…
To preserve and to encourage the preservation of historic buildings, objects, places and customs relating to the history of texas, its natural beauty and all that is admirably distinctive to texas; and by such physical and cultural…
The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…
To preserve and to encourage the preservation of historic buildings, objects, places and customs relating to the history of texas, its natural beauty and all that is admirably distinctive to texas; and by such physical and cultural…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 54 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 BEEVILLE ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAPALOTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND OFF ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA BARNESVILLE MN ALUMNI AS ↗
- Who funds Friends of the ARK Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLDWOMENWORK ↗
- Who funds IBU Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds SHADES OF GREEN LEGACY FOUNDATION SHADES OF GREEN LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brackenridge Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MUSIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Development Foundation of Port Aransas ↗
- Who funds THE HEALER WITHIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Adore Ministries 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: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Texas Sandfest · Mays Family Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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