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The Frank W & Sue Mayborn 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$2.9MEducation$2.0MHealth$1.6MHousing & Shelter$930kYouth Development$150kReligion$44kCivil Rights$13kHuman Services$12kPhilanthropy$5kOther$285k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $184k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN - BAYLOR$1,000,000
RALPH WILSON YOUTH CLUBS OF TEMPLE INC$50,000
CHURCHES TOUCHING LIVES FOR CHRIST$44,000
TEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINC$40,000
TEMPLE CHILDRENS MUSEUM$35,000
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CENTER$35,000
OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS MATERNITY SHELTER$15,000
SALVATION ARMY$15,000
FAMILIES IN CRISIS$7,000
TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
FORT CAVAZOS SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION FOUNDATION OF TEXAS$3,000
LONGHORN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$2,000
BODY OF CHRIST COMMUNITY CLINIC$2,000
KILLEEN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FREEDOM OF INFORMATION FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $3k → 10%LONGHORN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2k → 11%THE FORT CAVAZOS FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN - BAYLOR: $1.0M → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FREEDOM OF INFORMATION FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $3k → 10%LONGHORN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2k → 11%FORT CAVAZOS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 12%BODY OF CHRIST COMMUNITY CLINIC: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FREEDOM OF INFORMATION FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $3k → 10%LONGHORN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2k → 11%THE FORT HOOD AREA MILITARY FAMILY MEMBER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 12%BODY OF CHRIST COMMUNITY CLINIC: $2k → 14%FREEDOM OF INFORMATION FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $2k → 10%LONGHORN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2k → 11%FORT HOOD AREA MILITARY FAMILY MEMBER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 12%BODY OF CHRIST COMMUNITY CLINIC: $2k → 14%LONGHORN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2k → 11%FORT HOOD AREA MILITARY FAMILY MEMBER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 12%FORT HOOD AREA MILITARY FAMILY MEMBER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $4k → 12%NATIONAL MOUNTED WARFARE FOUNDATION: $2.8M → 12%CHRISTIAN FARMS - TREEHOUSE: $5k → 14%CHRISTIAN FARMS - TREEHOUSE: $5k → 14%CHRISTIAN FARMS - TREEHOUSE: $5k → 14%CHRISTIAN FARMS - TREEHOUSE: $5k → 14%SALADO MUSEUM AND COLLEGE PARK: $5k → 14%PEACEABLE KINGDOM RETREAT: $100k → 14%CHURCHES TOUCHING LIVES FOR CHRIST: $44k → 14%AMY'S HOUSE TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS INTERNATIONAL ORG CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER: $25k → 14%OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS MATERNITY SHELTER: $15k → 14%OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS MATERNITY SHELTER: $15k → 14%AMY'S HOUSE TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS INTERNATIONAL ORG CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER: $10k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $10k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $50k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY: $900k → 14%ADVENT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CENTER: $35k → 14%TEMPLE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $35k → 14%TEMPLE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $30k → 14%TEMPLE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $25k → 14%CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CENTER: $10k → 14%TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 19 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

$2.0M
$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+10%

Still filing today

74%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther

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

  • CA
    CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +228%
  • TE
    TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +129%
  • FC
    FORT CAVAZOS FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • NM
    NATIONAL MOUNTED WARFARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2.8M · revenue -55% · 41% of their budget
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +7%
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $900k · revenue -18% · 54% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Texas a&M University-Central Tx Foundati

Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).

Education
2
Central Texas Christian School Inc

To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.

3
Texas Christian Education Foundation Inc

The foundation was founded for the purpose of providing the opportunity for a quality christian education and strives for excellence in academic, physical, spiritual, and social development.

4
Texas a&M-Corpus Christi Foundation

For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi

Education
5
Texans for Excellence in Education Inc

To aid texas independent school districts, their boards, administrators, and teachers in providing high quality education and transparency to the public.

Education
6
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies

To strengthen the lives of children and families.

Human Services
7
Central Texas College Foundation

Central texas college foundation (foundation) helps central texas college (ctc) grow through the acquisitions of gifts of scholarships, equipment and other donations, in order to help students, to support the facility, to promote programs,…

Education
8
Texas Womans University Foundation Inc

Support and promote twu

Education
9
Temple Academy

Encourage and assist families committed to providing a christian education for their children, developing the mind of christ in each student.

10
Texas Baptist Prisoner Family Ministry Foundation Inc

Providing safe shelter and other assistance to families of prison inmates.

Human Services
11
The Tstc Foundation

To complement the state of texas' support of the colleges by providing financial support for new and ongoing projects and activities in the areas of research, education and community service.

Education
12
Temple College Foundation Inc

To strengthen and contribute to the academic and physical growth of temple college by providing a means of receiving and administering gifts on behalf of the college.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Temple Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our Lady of the Angels Maternity Home Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%5%<5yr17%5%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr14%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr17%2%5–10yr18%47%10–20yr14%15%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr14%17%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
17%
277/1,609

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.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 31 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL MOUNTED WARFARE FOUNDATION — $2,800,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MOUNTED WARFARE FOUNDATION+4 more — $140,500 · Arts & CultureBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR — $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BA…+4 more — $40,000 · EducationTEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC — $1,540,000 · HealthTEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINI…+2 more — $29,000 · HealthFAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY INC — $900,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMIS…+1 more — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $55,000 · OtherADVENT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherTRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION INC CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER — $35,000 · OtherFORT CAVAZOS FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $29,000 · OtherFreedom of Information Foundation of Texas — $13,000 · OtherFAMILIES IN CRISIS — $12,000 · Other+5 more — $31,000 · OtherRALPH WILSON YOUTH CLUBS OF TEMPLE INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHURCHES TOUCHING LIVES FOR CHRIST — $44,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$2,940,500Education$2,040,000Health$1,569,000Housing & Shelter$930,000Other$315,000Youth Development$150,000Religion$44,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL MOUNTED WARFARE FOUNDATION — $2,800,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetTEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC — $1,540,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY INC — $900,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetRALPH WILSON YOUTH CLUBS OF TEMPLE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTEMPLE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $90,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCULTURAL ACTIVITIES CENTER INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION INC CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER — $35,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetFORT CAVAZOS FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $29,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetCHRISTIAN FARMS TREEHOUSE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFreedom of Information Foundation of Texas — $13,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILIES IN CRISIS — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBODY OF CHRIST COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKILLEEN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION IN — $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSalado Museum and College Park Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE BELTON EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEMPLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter FoundationPA32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · United Way of Central Texas Inc · Scott & White Memorial Hospital · Joe and Louise Cook Foundation · City Federation of Women's Clubs of Temple · Scott & White Healthcare Foundation · Garlyn & Lajuan Shelton Christian Foundation · First Community Foundation Inc · Cadence Bank Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Frank W & Sue Mayborn 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Frank W & Sue Mayborn Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Frank W & Sue Mayborn Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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