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Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$163k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$7.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$163k0%
FY20246$45M0%
FY202313$2.9M23%
FY20229$3.0M11%
FY202128$1.9M39%
FY202016$1.9M25%
FY201918$3.1M56%
FY201811$1.2M91%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$26MEducation$24MHealth$4.5MReligion$2.3MYouth Development$1.6MHousing & Shelter$275kAnimals$228kHuman Services$149kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
KY
MD
TN
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medical Benevolence Foundation$26,164,959783%
Austin College$23,036,272617%
Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio$2,500,000213%
Cho-Yeh Camp and Conference Center Inc$1,625,00083%
Lufkin Neighborhood Strong$250,000420%
Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons$200,00015%
Presbyterian Pan American School$156,5004n/a
Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc$121,00043%
Hospice in the Pines Inc$23,50040%
The Kinkaid School Inc$20,00020%
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All grantees of Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medical Benevolence Foundation$26,164,959783%
Austin College$23,036,272617%
Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio$2,500,000213%
Cho-Yeh Camp and Conference Center Inc$1,625,00083%
Lufkin Neighborhood Strong$250,000420%
Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons$200,00015%
Presbyterian Pan American School$156,5004n/a
Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc$121,00043%
Hospice in the Pines Inc$23,50040%
The Kinkaid School Inc$20,00020%
Hope Walks Inc$10,00020%
The Mosaic Center Inc$8,50032%
Backside Benevolence Fund Inc$6,00037%
Lufkin Isd Education Foundation$5,00014%
Tll Temple Memorial Library & Archives$3,50020%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$3,00020%
Museum of East Texas$3,00021%
Hockaday School$2,50010%
St Cyprians Episcopal Church$2,0001n/a
Friends of the Ellen Trout Zoo Inc$1,50020%
Kentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc$1,50010%
Retired Racehorse Project Ltd$1,00010%
Junior League of Lufkin Inc$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedical Benevolence Foundation: $26,164,959 over 7y, 83% of budgetAustin College: $23,036,272 over 6y, 17% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio: $2,500,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCho-Yeh Camp and Conference Center Inc: $1,625,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetLufkin Neighborhood Strong: $250,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetPan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons: $200,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetThoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc: $121,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetHospice in the Pines Inc: $23,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope Walks Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mosaic Center Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBackside Benevolence Fund Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetLufkin Isd Education Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTll Temple Memorial Library & Archives: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of East Texas: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHockaday School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Ellen Trout Zoo Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRetired Racehorse Project Ltd: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior League of Lufkin Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

Brookshire Brothers Charitable FoundationTX15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundation · Ernest L Kurth Jr Charitable Foundation · The Bettye & Murphy George Foundation · The Pineywoods Foundation · Tll Temple Foundation · Hunter Family Charitable Foundation · Angelina Benefit Rodeo Foundation of the Lufkin Host Lions Club · Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

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About Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation

How much does Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation give?
Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $162,890 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (44%), Education (40%), Health (8%).
Who are Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medical Benevolence Foundation ($26M), Austin College ($23M), Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio ($2.5M).
Does Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundation, Ernest L Kurth Jr Charitable Foundation, The Bettye & Murphy George Foundation.
Where is Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation based?
Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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