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The Mariah Fund Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$291k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$11,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Mariah Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$291k38%
FY202412$163k0%
FY202314$174k29%
FY202212$125k50%
FY202115$231k53%
FY202012$147k42%
FY201923$319k61%
FY201821$367k57%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MRecreation & Sports$589kAnimals$116kCommunity Improvement$56kEducation$53kFood & Nutrition$41kPhilanthropy$28kReligion$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boot Hill Museum Inc$571,87586%
Friends of Buffalo Dunes Inc$136,250327%
Ford County Historical Society Inc$62,6015n/a
Dodge City Roundup Inc$42,67351%
Beef Empire Days Inc$41,25061%
Wild West Country Inc$39,8826n/a
Depot Theater Company$36,95754%
Red Dog Childrens Museum$31,2501n/a
Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame Inc$23,791314%
Meade County Historical Society$23,20446%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of The Mariah Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boot Hill Museum Inc$571,87586%
Friends of Buffalo Dunes Inc$136,250327%
Ford County Historical Society Inc$62,6015n/a
Dodge City Roundup Inc$42,67351%
Beef Empire Days Inc$41,25061%
Wild West Country Inc$39,8826n/a
Depot Theater Company$36,95754%
Red Dog Childrens Museum$31,2501n/a
Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame Inc$23,791314%
Meade County Historical Society$23,20446%
Main Street Dodge City Inc$20,000111%
The Finney County Kansas Historical Society Inc$17,25023%
Claude and Donalda Stauth Foundation$16,8751n/a
Baker Arts Center Inc$14,00034%
Cimarron Golf Club Inc$11,2501n/a
Garden City Arts Inc$11,25017%
Humanities Kansas Inc$10,00020%
Tumbleweed Festival Inc$9,00034%
Ness County Bank Building Foundation Inc$6,914323%
Travel Industry Association of Kansas$6,60035%
Scott County Historical Society Inc$6,11525%
Dechant Foundation$5,50012%
Special Olympics Kansas Inc$5,00010%
Kansas Professional Rodeo Association$5,00011%
Hodgeman County Economic Development Inc$4,5331n/a
City of Dodge City$3,0001n/a
Brothers of the Third Wheel$3,00014%
Dodge City Area Arts Council Inc$3,0001n/a
Twilight Theatre Inc$2,26311%
Edwards County Historical Society$8551n/a
Santa Fe Trail Association$75310%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($848k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Mariah Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoot Hill Museum Inc: $571,875 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetFriends of Buffalo Dunes Inc: $136,250 over 3y, 27% of budgetDodge City Roundup Inc: $42,673 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBeef Empire Days Inc: $41,250 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetDepot Theater Company: $36,957 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetKansas Teachers Hall of Fame Inc: $23,791 over 3y, 14% of budgetMeade County Historical Society: $23,204 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetMain Street Dodge City Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Finney County Kansas Historical Society Inc: $17,250 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBaker Arts Center Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGarden City Arts Inc: $11,250 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHumanities Kansas Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTumbleweed Festival Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNess County Bank Building Foundation Inc: $6,914 over 3y, 23% of budgetTravel Industry Association of Kansas: $6,600 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetScott County Historical Society Inc: $6,115 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetDechant Foundation: $5,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSpecial Olympics Kansas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKansas Professional Rodeo Association: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBrothers of the Third Wheel: $3,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTwilight Theatre Inc: $2,263 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSanta Fe Trail Association: $753 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Community Foundation of Southwest KansasKS28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas · Western Kansas Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Mariah Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Mariah Fund Inc 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.

About The Mariah Fund Inc

How much does The Mariah Fund Inc give?
The Mariah Fund Inc reported 26 grants totaling $290,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Mariah Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Recreation & Sports (29%), Animals (6%).
Who are The Mariah Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boot Hill Museum Inc ($572k), Friends of Buffalo Dunes Inc ($136k), Ford County Historical Society Inc ($63k).
Does The Mariah Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mariah Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mariah Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas, Western Kansas Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Mariah Fund Inc based?
The Mariah Fund Inc is based in UT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2025, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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