· Private foundation
Mustang Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY APPLES COALITION | $10,000 |
| JUMPSTART | $10,000 |
| EAST CLEBURNE COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOPE INC | $10,000 |
| CLEBURNE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| BLINN COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| WICHITA FALLS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| HILL COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| BLINN COLLEGE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECEast Cleburne Community Center9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +35%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +42%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
- Who funds CHAMPION CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mustang Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mustang Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Gordon College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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