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.

Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation

Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$163k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$100,000
WINNIE BERRY HUMANE SOCIETY	$62,890

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$59M · 23 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$59M

$481k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+55%

Still filing today

65%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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.

Backed again, and grew

SL
SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO
2× · 2023–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +37%
CC
CHO-YEH CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +102%
LN
LUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG
4× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +275%

Funded once

PA
PAN-AFRICAN ACADEMY OF CHRISTIAN SURGEONSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +55%
AC
ANGELINA COLLEGE CENTER FOR NONPROF
one grant, 2019 · $100k
JG
JANELLE GRUM FAMILY CRISIS CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $40k

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.

04Its 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.

Lubbock Christian University

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.

Education

Lou Engle Ministries

Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.

Religion

The King's University

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.

Education

Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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The King's University

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.

Education

East Texas Baptist University

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…

Education

Hospice Longview Inc Dba Hearts Way Hospice of Northeast Tx

Care for the terminally ill

Human Services

Catholic Leadership Institute

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…

Religion

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Luther Classical College

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.

Education

Criswell College

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.

Education

The Woodlands Christian Academy

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

15/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$26,374,959Education$23,062,272Other$5,401,800Health$2,500,000Youth Development$1,625,000Housing & Shelter$250,000Animals$123,500

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home