· Private foundation
The Mary Kay Family Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY KAY ASH FOUNDATION | $30,500 |
| BUCKNER | $15,000 |
| FEUSA (FAMILY ENTERPRISE USA) | $15,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST DALLAS | $10,000 |
| UNLOCKING DOORS | $10,000 |
| DOVES INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| THE TEXAS LYCEUM | $10,000 |
| ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL & COMMUNITY CENTER | $7,448 |
| HOPE 4 ALL | $5,000 |
| WOMEN2WOMEN | $5,000 |
| ARMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR BRAINHEALTH | $5,000 |
| STATE FAIR OF TEXAS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VOVoice of Hope Ministries Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +17%
- UDUnlocking Doors Inc4× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +39%
- TLTEXAS LYCEUM ASSOCIATION INC DBA THE TEXAS LYCEUM3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- PPOINTone grant, 2017 · $50k
- SMSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
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 facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
To support the university of texas system
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
To support the university of texas system
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
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.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 64 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 Voice of Hope Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY KAY ASH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Unlocking Doors Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LYCEUM ASSOCIATION INC DBA THE TEXAS LYCEUM ↗
- Who funds PROJECT JOY & HOPE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds Army Scholarship Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STATE FAIR OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHETNA ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
- Who funds Believe Big Inc ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOVES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FEUSA INC ↗
- Who funds Spirit of America Worldwide ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE SPEAR 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mary Kay Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Kay Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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