· Private foundation
Midway 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 $10k6 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF TEXAS | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOUSTON | $10,300 |
| YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION | $2,500 |
| GRACEWOOD INC | $2,500 |
| 12TH MAN FOUNDATION | $1,626 |
| PH RECOVERY CENTER INC | $500 |
| SAVING GRACE WOMEN'S HOME | $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 (FY17–24, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
59 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 53 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- TATexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $268k · revenue +55%
- HPHouston Parks Board5× · 2017–2021 · $255k · revenue +69%
- RFREFUGE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $144k · revenue +564%
Funded once
- SStagesone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue -29%
- BMBREAKAWAY MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $35k
- HCHarbor Christian Academygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +102%
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
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Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
111 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. 111 of the 185 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 YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Halo House Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Avenue Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ↗
- Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Stages ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds STONEY CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds Harbor Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds GRACEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS ↗
- Who funds PURSUIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds SPORTS AUTHORITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Houston Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds Second Wind Programs Inc ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Methodist Hospital · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Hildebrand Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Elkins 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 Midway 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.