How much does The Mst Foundation give?

The Mst Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $219,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Mst Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), International (17%), Health (13%).

Who are The Mst Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Team Rubicon Inc ($289k), Donorschooseorg ($106k), University of Michigan ($90k).

Does The Mst Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mst Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Mst Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Halliburton Charitable Foundation.

Where is The Mst Foundation based?

The Mst Foundation is based in FL.

The Mst Foundation

The Mst Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Mst Foundation

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.

$219k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$26k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$949kInternational$294kHealth$231kReligion$43kEnvironment$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kHuman Services$33kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $43k
$10k–50k10 grants · $176k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FL	$26,116
TEAM RUBICON	$25,000
UNIV OF MIAMI LEAD	$25,000
DONORS CHOOSE	$20,000
MULTI AGENCY HOMELESS TASK	$20,000
UNIV OF MIAMI NEUROLOGY	$15,000
GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MINISTRIES	$15,000
WORLD'S CENTRAL KITCHEN	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
VEG CARES	$5,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY	$5,000
SISTER SISTER BREAST CANCER	$5,000
BROWARD CENTER	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 86% of grant dollars ($1.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($245k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($245k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

Canada$245k · 7 grants

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Mst Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Mst Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 34 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+9%

Still filing today

59%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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DONORSCHOOSEORG
8× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +24%
UO
University of Michigan
7× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +202%
UO
University of Miami
4× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +66%

Funded once

HI
HUMBLE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +240%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +377%
TF
THE FOX FAMILY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -233%

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.

04Its field

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.

Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment

Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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Breakthrough Energy Foundation

Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.

Public Benefit

Global Carbon Market Utility Governing Council Inc

Global carbon market utility governing council inc (gcmu governing council inc) is dedicated to dramatically reducing the amount of carbon dioxide and related greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere, thereby helping to preserve and…

Environment

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement

Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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Ucar Exchange

To assume and foster certain charitable activities of the university corporation for atmospheric research (ucar). these include development of scientific innovations, related research, and application of scientific advances for the benefit…

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health

The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers; the most unlike its peers is The Fox Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 78 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/36

Grantees still filing

21/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$889,228Education$341,460Public Safety & Disaster$294,797Health$78,243Human Services$67,108Religion$40,000International$30,000

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.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX17.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Halliburton Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mst Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mst Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home