· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of MARY HOBBS GRIFFITH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| SOUND OFF INC | $25,000 |
| SHADES OF GREEN LEGACY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $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 |
| FRIENDS OF TAFT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
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 (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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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
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
- BABEEVILLE ART ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +37% · 39% of their budget
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +78%- SOSOUND OFF3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- JDJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Artsone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- THTHE HEALER WITHIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
- YDYouth Development Foundation of Port Aransasgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +28%
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Botanical Garden Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beeville Art Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 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) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 54 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 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 Friends of the ARK Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA BARNESVILLE MN ALUMNI AS ↗
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLDWOMENWORK ↗
- Who funds IBU Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Brackenridge Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SHADES OF GREEN LEGACY FOUNDATION SHADES OF GREEN LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MUSIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEALER WITHIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Development Foundation of Port Aransas ↗
- Who funds Adore Ministries Inc ↗
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: 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
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 Mary Hobbs Griffith 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.
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.