· Private foundation
Thagard Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k14 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $261k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $38,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND | $25,000 |
| PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION-CLARE TOMPSON ELLIS MEMORIAL | $20,000 |
| KITTEN CLUTTER RESCUE | $19,500 |
| BREAKING BREAD MINISTRIES OF MIDLAND TX | $14,000 |
| MENLO COLLEGE OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT | $12,000 |
| SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $12,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE APHASIA FUND | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF MIDLAND | $10,000 |
| CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CASA TERESA | $10,000 |
| TRABUCO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE CARE AND DIAGNOSIS OF INHERITED BLOOD DISORDER | $10,000 |
| GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE | $10,000 |
| SAFEPLACE OF MIDLAND TEXAS | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–26, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +39% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2026, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas8× · 2018–2026 · $80k · revenue +77%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY7× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +105%
Culver Educational Foundation8× · 2018–2026 · $70k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CARTER RAIL RESOURCESone grant, 2018 · $5k
- PSPacific Symphonygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +108%
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.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.
Chandler's mission is to provide each student with the highest quality and most academically challenging education in a nurturing, balanced and diverse environment. chandler strives to have its students gain a love of learning, a means of…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…
How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 71 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 Young Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MENLO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARINERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cancer Research Collaboration Inc ↗
- Who funds BALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RAD CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE-ADULT CENTERS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The Cashion Foundation · Nobbs Family Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Pevehouse Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thagard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thagard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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