Texas · Private foundation
Mays Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $300k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Mays Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 50 | $299k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $351k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $404k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $396k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $390k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $284k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $304k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $281k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor University | $1,129,192 | 9 | 0% |
| First Baptist Church | $366,400 | 8 | n/a |
| Baylor Line Foundation | $198,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Amarillo Symphony Inc | $135,200 | 9 | 2% |
| Heal the City Free Clinic | $82,015 | 5 | 1% |
| West Texas A&M Univ Foundation | $78,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Kids Co | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Opportunity Plan Inc | $69,800 | 8 | 1% |
| Dallas Baptist University | $62,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Wayland Baptist University | $60,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($386k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mays Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Amarillo Business Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc · William & Louise Mullins Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mays Foundation
- How much does Mays Foundation give?
- Mays Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $299,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mays Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Religion (15%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Mays Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Baylor University ($1.1M), First Baptist Church ($366k), Baylor Line Foundation ($198k).
- Does Mays Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mays Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mays Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amarillo Area Foundation Inc, Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation, Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust.
- Where is Mays Foundation based?
- Mays Foundation is based in TX.
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