Texas · Private foundation
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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2024
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $154,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $30M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Mfi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k 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 | 69 | $1.4M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $1.1M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $858k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $829k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $607k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $814k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $948k | 36% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $1.1M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterloo Greenway Conservancy | $1,208,766 | 8 | 5% |
| Austin Children's Museum | $339,292 | 7 | 6% |
| Planned Parenthood | $295,217 | 6 | n/a |
| Rare | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc | $219,450 | 2 | 0% |
| Caritas of Austin | $210,150 | 7 | 1% |
| Nextgen Climate America Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Ecoamerica | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Eagles Autism Challenge Inc | $180,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The 19th News | $175,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 113 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mfi Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Mfi Foundation
- How much does Mfi Foundation give?
- Mfi Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $1,393,092 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mfi Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (18%), Education (12%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Mfi Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Waterloo Greenway Conservancy ($1.2M), Austin Children's Museum ($339k), Planned Parenthood ($295k).
- Does Mfi Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mfi 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 Mfi Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, St David's Foundation, The Moody Foundation.
- Where is Mfi Foundation based?
- Mfi Foundation is based in TX.
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