· Private foundation
McGAHA 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 · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT | $750,000 |
| DOCTORS WO BORDERS | $10,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ST LUKES UNITED METHODIST | $5,000 |
| VISTA GRANDE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MISSION OF YAHWEH | $2,500 |
| HOUSTON SPCA | $2,500 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $795k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SAST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL2× · 2017–2018 · $24k · revenue +72%
- VPVOCAL PRIDE FOUNDATION DBA THE COUNCIL OAK MENS CHORALE2× · 2019–2020 · $9k · revenue +64% · 41% of their budget
- TCTexas Children's Hospital5× · 2018–2023 · $7k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- CRCOMPASS ROSE INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -56%
- WFWICHITA FALLS AREA CMTY FNDNone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $7k
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 mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The organization provides direct assistance and support services to residents of champlin, corcoran, dayton, maple grove, osseo and rogers, mn targeting households with low incomes and those faced with financial crisis.
Ywca corpus christi is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
Compassion exists to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Compassion serves all children, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.
The mission of Christian Community Service Center, Inc. (CCSC) is to serve the poor, hungry, disabled and otherwise needy while respecting their religious, ethnic, or cultural differences.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Achieving permanent sanctuary and healing homes for children and families from hard places.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 36 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 ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ROSE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds VOCAL PRIDE FOUNDATION DBA THE COUNCIL OAK MENS CHORALE ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF YAHWEH INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds SALT AND LIGHT NFP ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON REVISION ↗
- Who funds THE MAXFUND INC ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Garden Center ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McGAHA FOUNDATION funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McGAHA FOUNDATION. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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