· Private foundation
Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $100,000 |
| WINNIE BERRY HUMANE SOCIETY | $62,890 |
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 (FY18–23, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SLSAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO2× · 2023–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +37%
- CCCHO-YEH CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +102%
- LNLUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG4× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +462%
Funded once
- PAPAN-AFRICAN ACADEMY OF CHRISTIAN SURGEONSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +55%
- ACANGELINA COLLEGE CENTER FOR NONPROFone grant, 2019 · $100k
- JGJANELLE GRUM FAMILY CRISIS CENTERone grant, 2019 · $40k
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.
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
Care for the terminally ill
Catholic leadership institute provides bishops, priests,religious, deacons and lay persons in the roman catholic church with world-class, pastoral leadership formation and consulting services that strengthen their confidence and competence…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio. 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 36 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 41 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 MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ↗
- Who funds CHO-YEH CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG ↗
- Who funds PAN-AFRICAN ACADEMY OF CHRISTIAN SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE IN THE PINES INC ↗
- Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Backside Benevolence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds LUFKIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TLL TEMPLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY & ARCHIVES ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of East Texas ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ELLEN TROUT ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc ↗
- Who funds RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUFKIN 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: 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
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 K and Clifford Grum 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.