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.

Midway Foundation

Midway Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$58k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% 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

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $13k
$10k–50k3 grants · $45k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$29k

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.6M · 59 repeat orgs$513k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120

Total granted

$3.6M

$487k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+36%

Still filing today

71%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

TA
Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation
7× · 2017–2024 · $268k · revenue +55%
HP
Houston Parks Board
5× · 2017–2021 · $255k · revenue +69%
RF
REFUGE FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $144k · revenue +564%

Funded once

S
Stages
one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue -29%
BM
BREAKAWAY MINISTRIES INC
one grant, 2023 · $35k
HC
Harbor Christian Academygraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +102%

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.

Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

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.

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Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment

Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health

Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education

Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture

Mhs Physicians of Texas

Health

Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health

Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health

Houston Area Community Services

Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

111 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. 111 of the 185 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

111/111

Grantees still filing

73/111

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,361,721Other$1,244,167Housing & Shelter$464,200Health$394,216Philanthropy$284,250Human Services$214,132Religion$146,200

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home