Texas · Private foundation
Mechia Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $729k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 234
- Grants FY2024
- 215
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,100
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $42,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 210 to 261
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Mechia Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 233 | $729k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 215 | $645k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 224 | $777k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 211 | $614k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 210 | $467k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 255 | $1.0M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 261 | $1.1M | 34% |
| FY2017 | 244 | $976k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program | $314,600 | 6 | 7% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $276,855 | 8 | 0% |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $242,175 | 8 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Service | $112,800 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Defense Fund | $101,450 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation | $91,750 | 7 | 1% |
| Art Museum of Southeast Texas | $85,775 | 8 | 1% |
| Symphony of Southeast Texas Inc | $78,050 | 7 | 2% |
| University of Miami | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Beaumont Chamber of Commerce | $52,642 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 278 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 271 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mechia 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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Powell Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · John P McGovern Foundation · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · The Alkek and Williams Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The Methodist Hospital
How this is measured
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About Mechia Foundation
- How much does Mechia Foundation give?
- Mechia Foundation reported 234 grants totaling $729,216 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 210 and 261 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mechia Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (24%), Education (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Mechia Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ($315k), Anti-Defamation League ($277k), Holocaust Museum Houston ($242k).
- Does Mechia Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mechia Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mechia Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc.
- Where is Mechia Foundation based?
- Mechia Foundation is based in TX.
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