Texas · Private foundation
Mize Family 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.
- $117k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Mize Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 15 | $116k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $115k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $85k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $90k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $84k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $87k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $88k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $72k | 68% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church | $704,150 | 9 | n/a |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $6,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Memorial Park Conservancy Inc | $5,455 | 5 | 0% |
| Houston Botanic Garden | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Garden Club of Houston | $4,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Tanglewood Foundation | $3,650 | 8 | 5% |
| Star of Hope Mission | $2,818 | 6 | 0% |
| Jeremiah Program | $2,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Helping Hand Home for Children Inc | $2,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Museum Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mize Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust · Sterling-Turner Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Hobby Family Foundation · The Crain Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Tapeats Fund
How this is measured
About Mize Family Foundation
- How much does Mize Family Foundation give?
- Mize Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $116,733 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mize Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (89%), Environment (2%), Education (1%).
- Who are Mize Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church ($704k), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston ($7k), Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ($5k).
- Does Mize Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mize Family 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 Mize Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mize Family Foundation based?
- Mize Family Foundation is based in TX.
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