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Mike a Myers 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $443k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS ADVOCACY PROJECTS | $250,000 |
| TEXAS INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE FUND | $118,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| CHILDCARE GROUP | $75,000 |
| ALL STARS PROJECT | $50,000 |
| LUMIN EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| NO HUNGRY CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS | $20,000 |
| JHG TEXAS FUND FOR NURSING SCHOLARSHIPS | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK | $15,600 |
| THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES | $15,000 |
| DALLAS BAR ASSOCIATION-CSF | $10,500 |
| CAFE MOMENTUM | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Mike a Myers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 12 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $507k 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
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK2× · 2021–2024 · $130k · revenue +12%
- CCHILDCAREGROUP2× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +34%
- GSGLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- CCOMMIT2DALLASgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +335%
- TATexas Advocacy Projectgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +46%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $40k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
The Cambridge School of Dallas was formed in 2001 and is a college preparatory, non-denominational christian school established for the purpose of providing academic excellence in a christ-centered environment.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Young Texans Against Cancer is a network of motivated young professionals collectively working together to raise awareness and funds to support the local Dallas cancer community. The Dallas chapter was established in 2007, as part of a…
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is No Hungry Children. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 86 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 Texas Interscholastic League Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHILDCAREGROUP ↗
- Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Advocacy Project ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SIEGEL RARE NEUROIMMUNE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NO HUNGRY CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · The Perot Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Harry Bass Foundation · The Florence 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 Mike a Myers 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.
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.
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