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Mustang Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURLESON HIGHER EDUCATION FUND | $16,500 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF JOHNSON CNTY | $12,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC | $12,500 |
| EAST CLEBURNE COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOPE INC | $10,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY APPLES COALITION | $10,000 |
| JUMPSTART | $10,000 |
| CLEBURNE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| HILL COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| BLINN COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- ECEast Cleburne Community Center9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +35%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +68%
- HIHOPE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- RVRIO VISTA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $22k
- RCRotary Club of Cleburne Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -63%
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
To provide lbj students financial support for continuing higher education.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Clarendon college foundation, inc. is organized to support and promote the interest of education at clarendon college and to assist and extend financial support to clarendon college.
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
Private Baptist College
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
Award college scholarships
Central christian university inc is a christian academic institution with the primary mission of providing quality christian education.
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abilene Christian University and the most unlike its peers is Casa of Johnson County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 80 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 East Cleburne Community Center ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BURLESON HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNI ↗
- Who funds HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLEBURNE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLEBURNE PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BLESSING OF JOHNSON CO INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Johnson County Inc ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Cleburne Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Hazlewood Barkley Foundation · Texas Health Huguley Inc · Chase Foundation Mack C Chase Trustee · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Mustang 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.
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
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.
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