· Private foundation
The Grafa Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $15,095 |
| MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| NONPROFIT MANAGMENT CENTER | $1,500 |
| PERMIAN BASIN PETROELUM MUSEM | $1,080 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MIDLAND HUMANE COALITION | $1,000 |
| HILLANDER SCHOOL | $500 |
| WEST TEXAS SYMPHONY | $500 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $500 |
| SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND | $250 |
| T BOONE PICKENS HOSPICE CENTER | $250 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR | $250 |
| REDEEMER CHURCH | $250 |
| BYNUM SCHOOL | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MPMANOR PARK INC2× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +60%
- SLSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC5× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +82%
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- MOMercury One Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +301%
- TPTHE PETROLEUM MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $1k
- PBPERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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 chamber of commerce provides resources and services to promote and foster business growth and success for its members and the community.
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 support and enhance the operations, acquisitions, and funding of projects and programs that encourage lifelong learning through the Midland County Public Library System.
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…
Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
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…
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.
The Midland Foundation raises funds to support the programs and services of The Midland Corporation. The Foundation does so by grant writing, soliciting individual and corporate donations, estate and planned gifts, and revenue generated by…
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,…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Midland Project Graduation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 of the 56 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 MANOR PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 MIDLAND HUMANE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
- Who funds HILLANDER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT E LEE BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds PETROLEUM CLUB OF MIDLAND ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
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: 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
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 Grafa Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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