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Micah Foundation Inc at a glance

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Micah Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$123kReligion$29kHealth$18kHuman Services$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kInternational$10kRecreation & Sports$5kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$717k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RETINA FND OF THE SOUTHWEST$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
RIDE WITH JACK$5,000
THE WINSTON SCHOOL$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $5k → 14%SAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 4 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +69% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
19

Total granted

$64k
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+69%

Still filing today

50%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
EducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ND
    NOTRE DAME SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2023 · $25k
  • PH
    PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +77%
  • LA
    LITERACY ACHIEVES
    3× · 2019–2023 · $15k

Funded once

  • SM
    SAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +6%
  • RA
    RIVERTREE ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +70%
  • JA
    JONI AND FRIENDSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +82%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Pinnacle Christian School

Pinnacle Christian School serves to meet the education needs of families in the greater Parker County area by providing complete, advanced, Bible-based academic K-8th grade instruction taught by highly-qualified teachers on Tuesdays and…

Education
2
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
3
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
4
Discovery School of San Antonio

At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…

Education
5
Fellowship Academy

The mission of Fellowship Academy is to provide every child an opportunity for a safe, affordable, well-rounded Christ-centered educational experience and build Christian leaders to serve the community.

Education
6
Lutheran Education Association of Houston

The mission of the Lutheran Education Association of Houston (LEAH) is to operate and champion exemplary Lutheran schools in the Houston area to expand Christ's Kingdom.

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7
Dominion Ridge Academy

The mission of Dominion Ridge Academy is to provide a Christian understanding of God, man, and the universe based on biblical and natural revelation through an integrated curriculum.

Education
8
Fort Bend Christian Academy

Fort Bend Christian Academy exists to glorify God through excellence in college preparatory Christian education. FBCA strives to equip students with the ability to thrive spiritually, academically, socially, and physically.

Education
9
St Stephen's Episcopal School

St. Stephen's Episcopal School - Houston ("St. Stephen's", "the School") nurtures each child's academic, creative, and spiritual potential.

Education
10
Foundation Preparatory Academy

Provide a college-preparatory education in a christian environment through a university-model-school - a blend of traditional public and private schools and home schools. currently kindergarten - 12th grade.

Education
11
Truth Academy Inc

Truth academy works in partnership with families to integrate high-quality education with biblical truth and discipleship in order to train students, spiritually and academically, how to operate in their god-given purpose and live out a…

Religion
12
The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Michael Episcopal School; the most unlike its peers is Ride With Jack. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOTRE DAME SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME SCHOOLLITERACY ACHIEVES: $15,000 · OtherLITERACY ACHIEVESJONI AND FRIENDS: $10,000 · OtherJONI AND FRIENDSTHE YMCA: $10,000 · OtherTHE YMCABROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $10,000 · OtherBROTHER BILLS HELPING HANDCROSSFIRE: $10,000 · OtherCROSSFIREST MICHAELS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherRUF: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherThe Winston School: $5,000 · OtherRETINA FND OF THE SOUTHWEST: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $3,750 · OtherPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationPRESTON HOLLOW P…INSPIRE SPACES INSPIRE STUDENTS: $5,000 · EducationINSPIRE SPACES I…Southern Methodist University: $5,000 · EducationSouthern Methodi…HIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationHIGHLAND PARK PR…SAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAINT MICHAE…YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METR…LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY: $10,000 · ReligionLIONHEART…MIKE RYAN MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · ReligionMIKE RYAN…Practice Ministries Inc: $4,000 · ReligionPractice …RIVERTREE ACADEMY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFor the Nations Refugee Outreach: $10,000 · InternationalNAMI National: $5,000 · HealthCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $5,000 · HealthRIDE WITH JACK: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$108,750Education$32,500Human Services$25,000Religion$19,000Youth Development$10,000International$10,000Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT MICHAEL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIDE WITH JACK: $5,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetINSPIRE SPACES INSPIRE STUDENTS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNAMI National: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Winston School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPractice Ministries Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSA Life Academy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Rees-Jones Founda…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX19.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Micah Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Micah Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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