· Private foundation
McBee Family 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 $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PEOPLES COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,000 |
| THE SAFE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| PEASE PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| AUSTIN PBS | $10,000 |
| ALLEY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| THE TRAIL CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS | $5,000 |
| THE HEART PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| THE RISE SCHOOL OF HOUSTON | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPRESERVATION AUSTIN7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +617% · 63% of their budget
- PCPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +82%
- TSTHE SAFE ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- SESt Edwards Universityone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -12%
- CACAPITOL AREA FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
The mission of Austin Creative Alliance is to advance, connect, and celebrate Austin's arts, culture, and creative communities in order to nourish and strengthen the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…
The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 PRESERVATION AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Austin History Center Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds The Trail Conservancy ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL OF TEXAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Better Business Bureau · Austin Parks Foundation · Arnold Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McBee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McBee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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