· Private foundation
Mike a Myers Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $932k
- $250k+3 grants · $755k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY | $255,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER DALLAS | $250,000 |
| TEXAS ADVOCACY PROJECT | $250,000 |
| COMMIT PARTNERSHIP | $200,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $200,000 |
| TEXAS INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE FOUNDATION | $102,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS | $70,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS-DALLAS | $60,000 |
| PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN SC | $50,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $50,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST | $25,000 |
| WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LUMIN EDUCATION | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Mike a Myers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK3× · 2021–2025 · $330k · revenue +12%
- TATexas Advocacy Project2× · 2022–2025 · $325k · revenue +46%
- CCHILDCAREGROUP2× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TATEXAS ADVOCACY PROJECTSone grant, 2024 · $250k
- CCOMMIT2DALLASgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +335%
- CICATO INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
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.
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…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
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…
To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.
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…
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…
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.…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
How this is measured
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 107 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCAREGROUP ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NO HUNGRY CHILDREN ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mike a Myers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike a Myers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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