· Private foundation
The Mary H Cain Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL | $850,000 |
| TIRR FOUNDATION | $850,000 |
| ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $450,000 |
| HEALTH SERVICES DISTRICT OF KERSHAW COUNTY | $230,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $210,000 |
| AVERY COUNTY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FUND | $150,000 |
| SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| TLR FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $100,000 |
| SHELDON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $95,000 |
| THE GOODNESS WEB FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| NEUHAUS EDUCATION CENTER | $50,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR THE PUBLIC TRUST | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its 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.
22 repeat relationships: 17 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTIRR Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +63%
- LFLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $900k · revenue +57% · 40% of their budget
- MPMemorial Park Conservancy Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $455k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- NSNATIONAL STEEPLECHASE MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +590%
- ARAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEATHCAREone grant, 2021 · $25k
- BRBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +113%
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.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Assist Wilson Medical Center in its mission of promoting, improving, and restoring health.
The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…
The NSU Foundation was created exclusively to benefit Northeastern State University for charitable, benevolent, educational, scientific and literary purposes.
To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…
The NREL Foundation advances an affordable and secure energy future by catalyzing NREL's world-class energy research and innovation capabilities.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 32 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 TIRR Foundation ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GOODNESS WEB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR THE PUBLIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FORREST GENERAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS HELPING FIREFIGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMBLE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mary H Cain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary H Cain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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