Texas · Private foundation
The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $872k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $731k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $867k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $550k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $425k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $259k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $481k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $267k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $424k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $201k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Chapel Bible Church | $890,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Hope Prison Ministries Inc | $840,000 | 2 | 43% |
| All Saints Episcopal School | $395,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Turnkey Outreach | $300,000 | 8 | 94% |
| Dallas Theological Seminary | $291,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Dream Park | $250,600 | 1 | 14% |
| Arlington Pregnancy Center Inc | $175,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Grace to You | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Search Ministries Inc | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Morgan Mill Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 8% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($121k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Roach Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Reilly Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Gift Fund · Verizon Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust
How this is measured
Compare The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation with peer funders
About The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation
- How much does The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation give?
- The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $872,091 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (70%), Education (15%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
- Who are The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Christ Chapel Bible Church ($890k), Hope Prison Ministries Inc ($840k), All Saints Episcopal School ($395k).
- Does The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, The Roach Foundation Inc, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc.
- Where is The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation based?
- The Fred and Sandy Mesch Foundation is based in TX.
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