Texas · Private foundation
Mary Louise Dobson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $574k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Mary Louise Dobson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $463k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $574k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $736k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $790k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $679k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $646k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $628k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $445k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $499k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc | $1,367,307 | 4 | 3% |
| Oakbend Medical Center | $422,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Just Do It Now Inc | $137,892 | 9 | 6% |
| Boys & Girls Club of El Campo | $119,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Team Wharton Inc | $69,125 | 3 | 38% |
| Gulf Coast Casa | $50,900 | 3 | 6% |
| Hesed House of Wharton Inc | $47,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Stop Inc | $37,500 | 2 | 28% |
| Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council | $31,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Center for Hearing and Speech | $30,422 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mary Louise Dobson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Gulf Coast Medical Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mary Louise Dobson Foundation
- How much does Mary Louise Dobson Foundation give?
- Mary Louise Dobson Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $574,188 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mary Louise Dobson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (62%), Education (15%), Health (10%).
- Who are Mary Louise Dobson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ($1.4M), Oakbend Medical Center ($423k), Just Do It Now Inc ($138k).
- Does Mary Louise Dobson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary Louise Dobson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Louise Dobson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gulf Coast Medical Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Mary Louise Dobson Foundation based?
- Mary Louise Dobson Foundation is based in TX.
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