Texas · Private foundation
Mk2 Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $99k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Mk2 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; $4k 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 | 11 | $99k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $89k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $65k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $65k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $71k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $62k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $52k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Westminster Schools Inc | $219,726 | 6 | 0% |
| Scenic Houston Inc | $92,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Marion Military Institute | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Episcopal High School | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| River Oaks Baptist Church | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Scenic Texas | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Fernbank Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Menil Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Westminster Schools Inc | $219,726 | 6 | 0% |
| Scenic Houston Inc | $92,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Marion Military Institute | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Episcopal High School | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| River Oaks Baptist Church | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Scenic Texas | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Fernbank Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Menil Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Seaside Chapel Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Mk2 Foundation
- How much does Mk2 Foundation give?
- Mk2 Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $99,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mk2 Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Mk2 Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Westminster Schools Inc ($220k), Scenic Houston Inc ($93k), Texas Children's Hospital ($85k).
- Does Mk2 Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mk2 Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mk2 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Mk2 Foundation based?
- Mk2 Foundation is based in TX.
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