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Mindy's Hope Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$856kHealth$409kPublic Benefit$150kYouth Development$74kHuman Services$59kEmployment$55kHousing & Shelter$30kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC$85,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC$54,000
W I COOK FOUNDATION INC$40,000
CAREITY FOUNDATION$20,000
FORT WORTH STOCKSHOW SYNDICATE$8,036
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLOUD COVERED STREETS: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
$1.5M · 12 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$1.5M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEmploymentEducationYouth 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

  • NC
    NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $624k · revenue +364%
  • WC
    WI Cook Foundation Inc
    5× · 2018–2025 · $173k · revenue +16%
  • CF
    CAREITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $85k · revenue -15%
  • EH
    Ebony Horsewomen Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +27%
  • AR
    AGAPE RESOURCE & ASSISTANCE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +433%
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.

1
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
2
The Texas Conference for Women

Cfw inspires and empowers the nation's leading employers, teams, and individuals to reach their full potential at work and in life.

Human Services
3
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
4
Halo House Foundation

Halo House's mission is to help save the lives of cancer patients battling leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma by providing them with low-cost, fully furnished temporary housing while undergoing active cancer treatment at the Texas Medical…

Health
5
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

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

Health
6
Texas Cultural Trust Council

Public arts funding

Philanthropy
7
Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers' Foundation

Texas & southwestern cattle raisers' foundation (foundation) will build platforms to preserve the history and advance the future of the livestock industry in the southwest through cattle raisers museum exhibits, education initiatives and…

Arts & Culture
8
Fort Worth Art Association Endowment Foundation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of the fort worth art association, a sec. 501(c)(3) organization. the foundation is responsible for the administration of the long term investments held for the benefit of the association and its…

Arts & Culture
9
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Fort Worth Art Association

The fort worth art assocation, a texas non-profit corporation, was established to acquire a collection of works of modern art of the highest quality and to promulgate and maintain a program of art activities and art education in fort…

Arts & Culture
11
All Saints Health Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center-Fort Worth, to encourage broad-based public support, and to advance medical objectives, including sponsorship or patient care, research,…

Health
12
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce

To act as the voice of business, articulating a business perspective and advocating policies supported by the fort worth general business community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association; the most unlike its peers is Cloud Covered Streets. 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

24 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $623,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INCTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INCINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $17,500 · Arts & CultureWI Cook Foundation Inc: $173,360 · HealthWI Cook Foundation IncCAREITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthCAREITY FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER …HOPE CENTER 4 AUTISM - FORT WORTH: $26,000 · HealthHOPE CENTER 4 AUTISM - FOR…VALOR MISSION PROJECT: $150,000 · Public BenefitVALOR MISS…FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE: $73,844 · Youth DevelopmentRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC: $59,000 · OtherRONALD MCD…Ebony Horsewomen Inc: $30,000 · OtherEbony Hors…BILL DASCH MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · OtherBILL DASCH…AGAPE RESOURCE & ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $20,000 · OtherAGAPE RESO…TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherTIM TEBOW …CLOUD COVERED STREETS: $10,000 · OtherCLOUD COVE…+2 more: $10,000 · Other+2 moreWOMEN STEERING BUSINESS: $45,000 · EmploymentBOSS MARES INC: $10,000 · EmploymentCowboy Artists of America Joe Beeler Foundation: $30,000 · EducationHeather's Old Skool Village: $5,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$826,000Health$399,360Public Benefit$150,000Youth Development$73,844Other$159,000Employment$55,000Education$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $623,500 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc: $173,360 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVALOR MISSION PROJECT: $150,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCAREITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE: $73,844 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC: $59,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN STEERING BUSINESS: $45,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetCowboy Artists of America Joe Beeler Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetEbony Horsewomen Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetHOPE CENTER 4 AUTISM - FORT WORTH: $26,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBILL DASCH MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetAGAPE RESOURCE & ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSS MARES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCLOUD COVERED STREETS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStronger Together Texas: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF CARING HEARTS CHARITY: $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHeather's Old Skool Village: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEXAS CENTER FOR ARTS ACADEMICS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Thomas M Helen McKee …Bnsf Railway Foundati…Crystelle Waggoner Ch…Communities Foundatio…James and Dorothy Dos…Garvey Texas Foundati…Amon G Carter Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…Textron Charitable Tr…Leo Potishman Foundat…Mary Potishman Lard T…Community Foundation …
Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Mindy's Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mindy's Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Ebony Horsewomen Inc: 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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