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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.

$568k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$5.0M
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $328k
$11,625
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE$10,000
TEMPLE COLLEGE$8,925
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $84k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $79k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $165k → 16%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $78k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $45k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $61k → 14%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $55k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $42k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $45k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $90k → 16%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $200k → 22%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $35k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $40k → 14%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $103k → 22%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $46k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $35k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $36k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $65k → 16%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $92k → 22%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $42k → 10%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $87k → 22%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 10%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $79k → 22%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $39k → 10%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $75k → 22%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $45k → 16%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $63k → 22%ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY: $297k → 10%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $57k → 22%ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY: $175k → 10%TEMPLE COLLEGE: $121k → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $43k → 22%ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY: $163k → 10%TEMPLE COLLEGE: $65k → 14%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $39k → 22%ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY: $135k → 10%TEMPLE COLLEGE: $55k → 14%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $35k → 22%ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY: $104k → 10%TEMPLE COLLEGE: $52k → 14%ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 10%TEMPLE COLLEGE: $42k → 14%ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%TEMPLE COLLEGE: $37k → 14%ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY: $44k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ND
IN
UT
NM
KS
AR
OK
LA
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 29 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
38

Total granted

$4.8M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+26%

Still filing today

24%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $527k · revenue +57%
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $310k · revenue +48%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR
    8× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Marygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +25%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $16k
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
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
2
Taylor University

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.

Education
3
Howard Payne University

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.

Education
4
John Brown University

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…

Education
5
Texas 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.

Education
6
Hardin-Simmons University

The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.

Education
7
Loyola University

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…

Education
8
Tusculum University

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…

Education
9
Benedictine University

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…

Education
10
University of St Thomas

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…

Education
11
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
12
Whitworth University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Lutheran University; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $581,748 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $467,507 · OtherTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITYTEMPLE COLLEGE: $421,207 · OtherTEMPLE COLLEGETHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $262,924 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINTEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $183,130 · OtherTEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGETARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $159,269 · OtherTARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY+49 more: $498,873 · Other+49 moreSt Edwards University: $1,093,000 · EducationSt Edwards UniversityBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $527,125 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYTexas A&M Foundation: $310,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $300,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR+11 more: $185,400 · Education+11 more
Other$2,574,658Education$2,415,775

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 budgetSt Edwards University: $1,093,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $527,125 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $310,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $300,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mary: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $21,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELTON EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWiley College: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacksonville College: $1,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: $1,725 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS: $1,725 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Livestock…Tulsa Community Found…Folds of Honor Founda…Thurman Crawford Char…Texas Higher Educatio…Michael & Susan Dell …The Robert A Welch Fo…Charles & Lois Marie …Council of Independen…Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationRichard Wallrath Educ…
San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund IncTX26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Callaway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Callaway 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 70 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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