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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.

$58k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 75
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$29k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Midway Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$58k33%
FY202314$107k29%
FY202237$665k32%
FY202141$401k39%
FY202043$534k40%
FY201967$889k46%
FY201852$781k46%
FY201775$668kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.1MRecreation & Sports$609kHealth$551kHousing & Shelter$498kReligion$312kHuman Services$193kAnimals$179kEmployment$118kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 116 grantees
All grantees of Midway Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools$476,64564%
Halo House Foundation$322,50046%
The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University$304,00020%
Avenue Community Development Corporation$271,20061%
Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation$267,77670%
Houston Parks Board$255,00050%
Star of Hope Mission$170,00040%
Refuge Foundation$143,95072%
Alliance for Choice in Education$135,00030%
Breakaway Student Ministries$105,0003n/a
Texas A&M Foundation$91,94050%
Dress for Success Houston$87,74081%
I Like Giving$78,3202n/a
Search Homeless Services$50,7504n/a
Stages$40,00010%
SpringSpirit Inc$35,00040%
Breakaway Ministries Inc$35,0001n/a
Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc$33,00050%
Stoney Creek Foundation$33,00020%
Covenant House Texas$30,75040%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc$30,30060%
Casa de Esperanza$27,7946n/a
The Methodist Hospital Foundation$25,00040%
Harbor Christian Academy$25,00012%
Child Advocates Inc$24,10060%
Gracewood Inc$22,50080%
The Workfaith Connection$22,50080%
Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area$21,66610%
Families Against Mandatory Minimums$20,000116%
Pursuit Foundation$19,75050%
William Marsh Rice University$18,50030%
Sports Authority Foundation$18,25041%
Greater Houston Partnership Inc$15,33520%
Second Wind Programs Inc$13,80010%
The Center for Pursuit$13,00020%
Jimmy Pappas Memorial Shoot$11,00036%
Scenic Houston Inc$10,50021%
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter$10,00011%
Life Time Foundation$10,0002n/a
Astros Foundation$10,0001n/a
United Way of Greater Houston$10,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$10,00040%
Boys and Girls Country of Houston Inc$10,00010%
Houston Museum of Natural Science$10,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$9,00010%
Holocaust Museum Houston$7,50020%
Avondale House Inc$6,51020%
Building New Foundations Inc$6,20051%
American Cancer Society Inc$5,09120%
Her Path Forward Inc$5,0101n/a
University of Houston Foundation$5,00010%
The George W Bush Foundation$5,00010%
Memorial Assistance Ministries$5,00010%
Community Vision International$5,00011%
Houston Wilderness Inc$5,00011%
Young Life$5,00010%
Humble Isd Education Foundation$5,00020%
Texas Medical Center$5,00010%
Onegoal$5,00010%
Humble Area Assistance Ministries Inc$5,00010%
The Country Playhouse$5,00010%
Mission Centers of Houston$5,00011%
The Center for Hearing and Speech$5,00010%
Living Water International$4,75020%
Camp Aranzazu Inc$4,50020%
The Houston Food Bank$4,46130%
West Houston Assistance Ministries Inc$4,00020%
Kids' Meals Inc$3,68020%
Scenic Texas$3,00010%
Spring Branch Education Foundation$3,00010%
The Will Erwin Headache Research Foundation$2,50010%
Lupus Foundation of America Inc$2,5001n/a
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston$2,50010%
Straydog Inc$2,50010%
Houston Area Women's Center$2,50010%
LifeHouse of Houston Inc$2,50010%
Casa de Esperanza de Los Ninos Foundation$2,50011%
The Urban Enrichment Institute$2,50010%
Find Inc$2,00011%
Champions Kids Camp Inc$2,0002n/a
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston-Galveston$2,00011%
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc$2,00040%
Hope Media Group$1,50010%
Prayers of the People$1,25011%
Blessings in a Backpack Inc$1,00010%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$1,00010%
Cancare Inc$1,00010%
Houstonians for Great Public Schools$1,00011%
Jewish Family Service$1,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$67520%
Houston Public Media Foundation$57510%
Depelchin Children's Center$54610%
Saving Grace Women's Home Inc$50010%
Metavivor Research and Support Inc$50010%
Open Door Mission$50010%
Breakthrough T1d$50010%
Target Hunger Inc$50010%
River Pointe Community Church$5001n/a
Washington High School Quarterback Club Inc$5001n/a
Sire Inc$50010%
Faith in Practice$50010%
Texas Children's Hospital$50010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$50010%
Conscious Capitalism Inc$50010%
Ph Recovery Center Inc$50010%
Beyond Batten Disease Foundation$5001n/a
United Against Human Trafficking$50010%
Greater Houston Prayer Breakfast$35010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$35010%
Sports Quest$25010%
His Grace Foundation$2501n/a
Friends for Life$25010%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn$20010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$20010%
Augustheart$20010%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($548k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Midway Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools: $476,645 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetHalo House Foundation: $322,500 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetThe Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University: $304,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAvenue Community Development Corporation: $271,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation: $267,776 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $255,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetStar of Hope Mission: $170,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRefuge Foundation: $143,950 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetAlliance for Choice in Education: $135,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $91,940 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDress for Success Houston: $87,740 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetStages: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $33,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetStoney Creek Foundation: $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House Texas: $30,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $30,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Methodist Hospital Foundation: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHarbor Christian Academy: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetChild Advocates Inc: $24,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGracewood Inc: $22,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Workfaith Connection: $22,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $21,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies Against Mandatory Minimums: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPursuit Foundation: $19,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSports Authority Foundation: $18,250 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGreater Houston Partnership Inc: $15,335 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Wind Programs Inc: $13,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Pursuit: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJimmy Pappas Memorial Shoot: $11,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetScenic Houston Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Country of Houston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Museum Houston: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAvondale House Inc: $6,510 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding New Foundations Inc: $6,200 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $5,091 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Houston Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George W Bush Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Vision International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHouston Wilderness Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYoung Life: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 102.

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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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX58.4× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Midway Foundation

How much does Midway Foundation give?
Midway Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $57,926 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 75 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Midway Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Health (13%).
Who are Midway Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools ($477k), Halo House Foundation ($323k), The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University ($304k).
Does Midway Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Midway 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 Midway Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Strake Foundation.
Where is Midway Foundation based?
Midway Foundation is based in TX.

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 185 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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