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Mfi 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $954k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $154,000 |
| PEOPLE'S FUND | $150,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $109,450 |
| EQUALITY TEXAS | $100,000 |
| ECOAMERICA | $100,000 |
| NEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND | $100,000 |
| WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY | $75,500 |
| CARITAS OF AUSTIN | $65,000 |
| ECHO | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $50,000 |
| ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION | $32,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE | $25,000 |
| TEXAS TRIBUNE | $25,000 |
| RARE | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +25% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 17 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k 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
- WGWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +4%
- ACAUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM7× · 2017–2024 · $339k · revenue +62%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $219k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- DSDELL SETON MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2019 · $63k
- TMTHE MILKEN INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +191%
- MIMILKEN INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $35k
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.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peoplefund and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
109 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. 109 of the 163 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 WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds ECOAMERICA ↗
- Who funds NEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLEFUND ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds NEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds Eanes Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Champions Off the Field ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Better Business Bureau · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Applied Materials Foundation · Ascension Seton
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 Mfi Foundation 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.
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% 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.