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Mz Foundation

To raise funds and distribute for educational purposes

$309k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

50% of Mz Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of The Texas Hill Country Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Mz Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $93k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
6
’18
8
’19
6
’20
1
’21
1
’22
1
’23
1
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$181kHealth$83kRecreation & Sports$38kArts & Culture$20kYouth Development$15kEducation$1k
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $93,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $309,427 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $216,427 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$980k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS DEPARTMENT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION$33,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$25,000
THE CHROMOSOME 18 REGISTRY AND RESEARCH SOCIETY$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS$10,000
HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS$10,000
SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $25k → 9%TEXAS DEPARTMENT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%FALLS CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS: $5k → 13%MORGANS POINT RESORT VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC: $10k → 16%EPILEPSY FOUNDATIN OF TEXAS: $10k → 16%DRISCOLL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15k → 17%TEED OFF AT CANCER CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT: $5k → 20%UNIFORMED SAFETY EDUCATION OFFICERS INC: $15k → 11%LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $3k → 9%TEXAS DEPARTMENT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%MORGANS POINT RESORT VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC: $10k → 16%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $5k → 16%TEED OFF AT CANCER CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT: $3k → 20%TEXAS DEPARTMENT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $33k → 10%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC: $5k → 16%CAMP FOR ALL: $5k → 16%TEXAS DEPARTMENT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%THE CHROMOSOME 18 REGISTRY & RESEARCH SOCIETY: $10k → 16%THE CHROMOSOME 18 REGISTRY AND RESEARCH SOCIETY: $10k → 16%TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%THE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS: $10k → 16%THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$281k · 8 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$281k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+119%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TD
    TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $153k · revenue +13%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +53%
  • HC
    HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • US
    UNIFORMED SAFETY EDUCATION OFFICERS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • TM
    The Miracle League of San Antonio Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -58%
  • TB
    THE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -15%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The University of Texas Foundation No 1

To support the university of texas system

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2
North Central Texas Medical Foundation
Health
3
Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
5
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
6
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
7
Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation

To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.

Health
8
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
9
Texas Back Institute Research Foundation
Health
10
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Tx Sports and Cultural Foundation
Public Benefit
12
Texas Children's

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc; the most unlike its peers is Morgans Point Resort Volunteer Firefighters Assn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $153,000 · EducationTEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,000 · EducationTHE CHROMOSOME 18 REGISTRY & RESEARCH SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherTHE CHROMOSOME 18 REG…UNIFORMED SAFETY EDUCATION OFFICERS INC: $15,000 · OtherUNIFORMED SAFETY EDUC…Morgans Point Resort Volunteer Firefighters Assn: $12,500 · OtherMorgans Point Resort …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $10,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SIST…TEED OFF AT CANCER CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT: $8,000 · OtherTEED OFF AT CANCER CH…+1 more: $1,000 · OtherBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $27,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED …EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $15,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION …Driscoll Children's Hospital: $15,000 · HealthDriscoll Children's …THE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTHE BLOOD & TISSUE C…SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSAN ANTON…The Miracle League of San Antonio Inc: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Mirac…HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCamp For All Foundation: $5,000 · Youth Development
Education$158,000Other$66,500Health$62,500Recreation & Sports$30,000Arts & Culture$20,000Philanthropy$5,000Youth Development$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $153,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CHROMOSOME 18 REGISTRY & RESEARCH SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDriscoll Children's Hospital: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Miracle League of San Antonio Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetFALLS CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
San Antonio Area FoundationTX15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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