Delaware · Private foundation
Mindy's Hope 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.
- $207k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Mindy's Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $207k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $278k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $236k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $147k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $35k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $61k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $230k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $252k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc | $623,500 | 7 | 5% |
| WI Cook Foundation Inc | $173,360 | 5 | 0% |
| Valor Mission Project | $150,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Careity Foundation | $125,000 | 7 | 3% |
| The Better Angels Society Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fort Worth Stock Show Syndicate | $73,844 | 8 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth Inc | $59,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women Steering Business | $45,000 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 24 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Mindy's Hope Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax
How this is measured
About Mindy's Hope Foundation
- How much does Mindy's Hope Foundation give?
- Mindy's Hope Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $207,036 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mindy's Hope Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Health (24%), Public Benefit (9%).
- Who are Mindy's Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc ($624k), WI Cook Foundation Inc ($173k), Valor Mission Project ($150k).
- Does Mindy's Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mindy's Hope 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 Mindy's Hope Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Bnsf Railway Foundation, Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust.
- Where is Mindy's Hope Foundation based?
- Mindy's Hope Foundation is based in DE.
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