· Private foundation
The Grafa Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $12,190 |
| PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| PASCHAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MIDLAND HUMANE COALITION | $1,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUDNATION | $750 |
| CO2 COALITION | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $500 |
| JUDITIAL WATCH | $300 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCOCIATION | $250 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $250 |
| ASSIST THE OFFICER | $250 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 13 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMANOR PARK INC2× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +60%
- MHMIDLAND HUMANE COALITION INC3× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +116%
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- MOMercury One Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +177%
- NMNONPROFIT MANAGMENT CENTERone grant, 2024 · $2k
- PBPERMIAN BASIN PETROELUM MUSEMone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
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.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Midland school provides a distinctive co-educational boarding school experience to a diverse student body in grades 9-12. through study and work, midland teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity,…
The midland education foundation exists to promote excellence in education by generating and distributing additional resources for the benefit of midland isd students and staff.
The midland chamber of commerce provides resources and services to promote and foster business growth and success for its members and the community.
To receive contributions by means of donations, gifts, and bequests and to expend such funds for the advancement of the literary, scientific, and other educational endeavors of Midwestern State University, a tax exempt institution of…
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
To support and enhance the operations, acquisitions, and funding of projects and programs that encourage lifelong learning through the Midland County Public Library System.
Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.
To collect, preserve, catalog and exhibit scientific, geological and engineering data gathered by the petroleum industry - to be a working library for use by industry professionals, educators, students and other members of the interested…
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MANOR PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND HUMANE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASCHAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CO2 COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc ↗
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: Warren Charitable Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Blankinship 1991 Foundation Inc · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Beal Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Walter & Jere Hubbard Family Foundation · John and Maurine Cox Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Grafa Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grafa Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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