· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE PRISON MINISTRIES | $500,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $160,000 |
| METROPLEX WOMEN'S CLINIC | $50,000 |
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $42,000 |
| GRACE TO YOU | $30,000 |
| TURN-KEY MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CHRIST CHAPEL | $20,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ANSWERS IN GENESIS | $5,000 |
| TRUTH FOR LIFE | $5,000 |
| MOUNT HERMON | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE | $2,591 |
| FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HPHOPE PRISON MINISTRIES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $840k · revenue +43% · 43% of their budget
- DTDallas Theological Seminary5× · 2020–2024 · $291k · revenue +39%
- APARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $175k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- DPDREAM PARKone grant, 2018 · $251k · revenue -99%
- SMSUMMIT MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +22%
- SCSAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +191%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
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Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of fort worth country day school is to foster the intellectual, physical, emotional and ethical development of capable students through an academically rigorous college preparatory program that integrates the arts and athletics.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Turnkey Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 39 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 HOPE PRISON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TURNKEY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds DREAM PARK ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN MILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE ↗
- Who funds Acoustic Neuroma Association ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SINACA STUDIOS - SCHOOL OF GLASS AND GALLERY ↗
- Who funds ICONNECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GREEN OAKS EDUCATION AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MCCULLOUGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LADIES AUXILIARY OF ARLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds GATHER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
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: 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
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 Fred and Sandy Mesch 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.