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McDaniel Charitable Foundation at a glance

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McDaniel Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$685k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.4MHealth$708kHuman Services$277kReligion$209kArts & Culture$179kRecreation & Sports$142kPublic Safety & Disaster$131kYouth Development$112kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $425k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$150,000
TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE (ST LUKE'S)$150,000
WEST GALVESTON COUNTY INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES$75,000
FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE$50,000
GALVESTON'S OWN FARMERS MARKET$25,000
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME$25,000
GALVESTON COUNTY FAIR & RODEO$25,000
TEXAS BOYS OUTDOORS$25,000
SANTA FE AREA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION$25,000
JOSEPH'S WARRIORS$25,000
CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING FOUNDATION$20,000
GULF COAST LADY ANGLERS$19,400
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$12,000
ORLEANS AUDUBON SOCIETY$12,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$12,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEXAS BOYS OUTDOORS: $25k → 9%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF LIBERYCHAMBERS COUNTIES: $25k → 20%TEXAS BOYS OUTDOORS: $25k → 9%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF LIBERYCHAMBERS COUNTIES: $25k → 20%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $25k → 14%WEST GALVESTON COUNTY INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES: $75k → 14%WEST GALVESTON COUNTY INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%WEST GALVESTON COUNTY INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
MA
IA
OH
PA
CA
LA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of McDaniel Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 80%.

McDaniel Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 32 repeat orgs$572k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
33

Total granted

$2.9M
$517k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+17%

Still filing today

59%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $555k · revenue +54%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +28%
  • FA
    FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • HS
    HOOK SPIT JUNIOR ANGLERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue +48%
  • SF
    SANTA FE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • MC
    MATAGORDA COUNTY FAIR & LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION ASSNgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $42k · revenue +51%
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.

1
Hunt Volunteer Fire Department

Providing fire protection and medical assistance to residents in the hunt, texas community

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Indian Creek Volunteer Fire Dept

Indian creek volunteer fire department provides fire, rescue, and emergency medical services to the indian creek fire district in cooke county, texas.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Garrison Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Cca Texas Fund

To support coastal conservation association in carrying out the charitable and educational purpose for which it was organized and is operated, namely, promoting and advancing the preservation, conservation and protection of marine, plant…

Environment
5
Texas Cowboys Against Cancer

Fundraising to support cancer patients in the cowboy community

Health
6
Wellington Volunteer Fire Department Inc

None

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Houston Big Game Fishing Club

To foster, promote and increase interest in the sport of big game fishing, oceanography, marine biology and other similar fields

Environment
8
Live Oak County Fair Association

A volunteer organization to promote the education and development of youth in agriculture in Live Oak County, Texas and surrounding counties.

Youth Development
9
Lavaca County Wildlife Management Association

Wildlife management education

Animals
10
Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc

Coastal Bend Bays Foundation is dedicated to the conservation of freshwater and coastal natural resources for current and future generations through consensus, facilitation, communication, advocacy, research and education.

Environment
11
Geronimo Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire protection/education, emergency medical treatment and rescue services to an area of approx 65 sq miles in guadalupe county texas.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Kaufman Volunteer Fire Department

Provides protection, preservation, and well-being of the health, safety, and property of persons residing in the rural areas of kaufman county, tx .

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galveston County Fair & Rodeo Inc; the most unlike its peers is Matagorda County Fair & Livestock Exposition Assn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCTEXAS HEART INSTITUTE (ST LUKE'S): $300,000 · OtherTEXAS HEART INSTITUTE (ST LUKE'S)CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING FOUNDATION: $110,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S WELL-BEING FOUNDATIONFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $81,500 · OtherGALVESTON COUNTY FAIR & RODEO INC: $75,000 · OtherDEER PARK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $65,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL BEND INC: $60,000 · Other+40 more: $626,642 · Other+40 moreTexas A&M Foundation: $555,020 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationCOLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND FOUNDATION: $266,180 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND FOUNDAT…GULF COAST LADY ANGLERS: $116,055 · EducationGULF COAST LADY ANGLERS+2 more: $15,000 · EducationFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $225,000 · HealthFRIEDREICH…GALVESTON COUNTY CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT TEAM INC: $40,000 · HealthGALVESTON …Addis Faith Foundation: $34,000 · HealthAddis Fait…STRONG WHEN WEAK: $18,000 · HealthSTRONG WHE…WEST GALVESTON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $150,000 · Human ServicesWEST GALVE…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA OF LIBERTY/CHAMBERS COUNTIES: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOURT APPO…TEXAS BOYS OUTDOORS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS BOYS…CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $25,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF GA…INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH…+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE AREA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJOSEPHS WARRIORS: $50,000 · PhilanthropyVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyYAGAS CHILDRENS FUND INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyInternational Foundation For CDKL5 Research: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHOOK SPIT JUNIOR ANGLERS INC: $51,650 · Youth Development
Other$1,618,142Education$952,255Health$317,000Human Services$310,000Arts & Culture$125,000Philanthropy$97,500Youth Development$51,650

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $555,020 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND FOUNDATION: $266,180 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $225,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWEST GALVESTON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $150,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetGULF COAST LADY ANGLERS: $116,055 over 4y, 36% of budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGALVESTON COUNTY FAIR & RODEO INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDEER PARK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $65,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL BEND INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHOOK SPIT JUNIOR ANGLERS INC: $51,650 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA OF LIBERTY/CHAMBERS COUNTIES: $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTEXAS BOYS OUTDOORS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetJOSEPHS WARRIORS: $50,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetMATAGORDA COUNTY FAIR & LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION ASSN: $41,983 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGALVESTON COUNTY CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT TEAM INC: $40,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetAddis Faith Foundation: $34,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHIGHLAND LAKES SPCA: $32,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetINTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSANTA FE AREA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetHITCHCOCK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetYAGAS CHILDRENS FUND INC: $12,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetPEEWEE'S PET ADOPTION WORLD & SANCTUARY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLEAR CREEK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHEROES ON THE WATER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Foundation For CDKL5 Research: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGalveston County Youth Soccer: $4,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetIOLA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

The Moody FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Kathleen Cailloux Fam…Dr Leon Bromberg Char…Enterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…
The Moody FoundationTX21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Moody Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Kathleen Cailloux Family Foundation Happy State Bank & Trust Trustee · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 McDaniel Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McDaniel Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to McDaniel Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to McDaniel Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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