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Mendenhall Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVING WATER FOR THE WORLD | $2,426 |
| SANCTUARY ARTS SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| GOOD SPORTS | $1,500 |
| WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS PROJECT | $1,500 |
| MAKE A WISH | $1,500 |
| SCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDREN | $1,250 |
| HAITI EDUCATION FUND INC | $1,200 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| TUPELO LEE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| UNITED TO BEAT MALARIA | $1,000 |
| GROWING UP KNOWING | $1,000 |
| STEWPOT | $1,000 |
| TREES FOR THE FUTURE | $500 |
| STEWPOT ALLIANCE OF DALLAS | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LWLIVING WATERS FOR THE WORLD8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +110%
- DCDALLAS CASA5× · 2017–2023 · $17k · revenue +21%
- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE4× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF SHREVEPORT LAone grant, 2017 · $8k
- SISOME INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -16%
- DHDORCHEAT HISTORCAL MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LIVING WATERS FOR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP FERN LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COMPASS ↗
- Who funds The Mustard Seed Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SERVE YOUR CITY ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds TUPELO LEE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Grayson Foundation Inc · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Scott Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Gap Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mendenhall Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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