· Private foundation
The Callaway Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $328k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $77,648 |
| ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR | $40,000 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | $32,450 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $32,125 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $18,400 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $18,300 |
| ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| BLINN COLLEGE | $11,625 |
| TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $10,300 |
| TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE COLLEGE | $8,925 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of your 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.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
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
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $527k · revenue +57%- TATexas A&M Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $310k · revenue +48%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR8× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Marygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +25%
- TOTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $16k
- WSWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $16k
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.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
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.
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…
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.
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
We are the University of St. Thomas, the Catholic University in the heart of Houston. We are committed to the Catholic intellectual tradition and the dialogue between faith and reason. By pursuing excellence in teaching, scholarship and…
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Lutheran University and the most unlike its peers is The Belton Educational Enrichment Foundation. 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 62 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 70 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 St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BELTON EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
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: San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust · Texas Higher Education Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · The Robert A Welch Foundation · Charles & Lois Marie Bright Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Richard Wallrath Educational Foundation
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 The Callaway 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.
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.