· Private foundation
Mary Louise Dobson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $242k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club-Greater Houston | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Just Do It Now Inc | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of El Campo | $25,000 |
| Team Wharton Inc | $25,000 |
| Wharton County Junior College | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,157 |
| Blessing Cup Storehouse | $15,350 |
| 20th Century Technology Museum | $15,141 |
| Wharton Police Officer Assoc | $15,000 |
| Scholarships for Wharton Ag Students | $10,700 |
| Boys & Girls Club-Palacios | $10,000 |
| Texas Hearing Institute | $7,840 |
| Girl Scouts of San Jacinto | $6,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $54k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 11 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +53%
- JDJust Do It Now Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +18%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL CAMPO8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GHone grant, 2023 · $368k
- MEMATAGORDA EPISCOPAL HEALTH OUTREACHone grant, 2021 · $37k
- BDBOLING DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT ASgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +39%
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.
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.
The organization's primary purpose is for recreational activities and educational activities in wharton, texas
The wharton county recovery team's mission is to assist in identifying disaster caused recovery needs, and to coordinate access to resources that would provide relief. disaster: flood, tornado, windstorm, or as designated, that effects…
The boys and girls club of southwest alabama actively works with local youth of all backgrounds to develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and future leaders in our community.
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as healthy, productive, caring and responsible citizens.
Provides facilities, personnel and organization for various activities and services
The organization operates to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens
Provided a safe place for area youth to use as a recreational facility and to conduct educational reinforcement classes for "at risk" youth
To provide a second chance in a christ centered environment for young men who have struggled with behavior.
Provide a safe place for youth to go for recreational and educational programs.
To enable all young people, especially those who have limited opportunities, to develop life skills in a safe, caring place that will instill and encourage self-esteem as well as sense of pride and belonging.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us the most; to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 81 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds Just Do It Now Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL CAMPO ↗
- Who funds Team Wharton Inc ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST CASA ↗
- Who funds HESED HOUSE OF WHARTON INC ↗
- Who funds Stop Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds BOLING DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT AS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BAY CITY AND MATAGORDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WHARTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds THERE IS VICTORY IN JESUS RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSING CUP STOREHOUSE INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Louise Dobson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Louise Dobson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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