· Private foundation
Mjr Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k17 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $12,000 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION | $6,000 |
| BETH-EL CONGREGATION | $2,450 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,147 |
| MULTICULTURAL ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS COVENANT HOUSE | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISANA | $1,000 |
| GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION | $1,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS MISSION | $1,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF FORT WORTH | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $500 |
| HOLE FOOD RESCUE | $500 |
| YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH | $500 |
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 (FY17–18, $1k) 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 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +208% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- FWFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +5%
- NONEW ORLEANS MISSION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +208%
- HFHole Food Rescue2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +385%
Funded once
- DFDOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +25%
- KAKIMBELL ART MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $1k
- NONEW ORLEANS PLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
The mission of the Houston Symphony is to inspire and engage a large and diverse audience in Greater Houston and beyond through exceptional orchestral performances, educational programs and community activities.
To promote and present the highest quality chamber music for our city and region, reflecting innovation, creativity in programming, and selection of superior musical artists. To build an informed audience for chamber music, now and in the…
The Dallas Opera connects local and global audiences through world-class performances of both new and traditional works. We sing stories for all generations, harmonizing entertainment, education, and artistry.
Music changing lives in North Texas and beyond through inspired collaborations, exceptional mentoring of musicians, unforgettable performances and inclusive community engagement.
The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and…
To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.
The mission of Fort Worth Opera is to enrich peoples lives with performances and programs that educate entertain inspire and expand the horizons of current and future audiences. Fort Worth Opera is committed to producing opera of the…
The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
Provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association and the most unlike its peers is Reporters Without Borders Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 30 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 FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Multicultural Alliance ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Hole Food Rescue ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Reporters Without Borders Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARITY NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds Texas Music Project Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC ↗
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: Amon G Carter Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · The Roach Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Once Upon a Time Foundation · Bernard S and Ellen C Appel Charitable Foundation · Fifth Avenue Foundation · James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Mjr 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.