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Frank Lockwood Foundation (formerly Lockwood Family Foundation)
Its FY2026 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of Frank Lockwood Foundation (formerly Lockwood Family Foundation)’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Track Houston Youth Track Club | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +51% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2020, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KCKBR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +51%
- THTrack Houston Youth Track Club3× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +37%
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- JHJDRF Houston Gulf Coast Chapterone grant, 2018 · $25k
- SHSKY HIGH FOR KIDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $21k · revenue +69%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +49%
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.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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…
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
Improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by supporting and enabling the greater houston area to increase ev adoption.
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.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
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.
Young texans against cancer (ytac) is an independent, nonprofit organization comprised of men and women who have been affected by cancer or are seeking to become more actively involved in the cancer community. our organization is focused…
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sky High for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Panther Backers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 58 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 SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds KBR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Track Houston Youth Track Club ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds The Brilliant Lecture Series Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds CATTLEMEN'S DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGING FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FLUOR CARES ↗
- Who funds CENIKOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE PVF ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PANTHER BACKERS ↗
- Who funds PONDEROSA VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good
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 Frank Lockwood Foundation (formerly Lockwood Family Foundation) 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.
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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