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Frankie Lemmon Foundation Inc

The frankie lemmon foundation was established for the purpose of supporting the frankie lemmon school and developmental center and lemmon tree academy.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$13MPublic Safety & Disaster$100kHealth$77kFood & Nutrition$56kRecreation & Sports$44k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.5M
$2,470,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL & DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER$2,470,000
LEMMON TREE ACADEMY$106,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $56k → 8%TRIANGLE DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK: $21k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its 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.

1
Down Syndrome Association of Central California

To enhance the quality of life for all people whose lives are touched by Down Syndrome

Health
2
Magnolia Speech School

Magnolia speech school exists to enable children with communication disorders to develop their full potential through spoken language and literacy.

Health
3
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
4
St Francis Day School Inc

A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.

Education
5
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
6
Friends of Down Syndrome

The friends of down syndromes mission is to create a lifelong of education and learning opportunities for teens and adults with down syndrome through education, socialization, and community outreach.

Human Services
7
Lime Connect Inc

Lime connect is leading the way as the premier resource for top talent in the disability space by attracting, preparing and connecting highly accomplished individuals, including veterans, with disabilities for careers with the world's…

Employment
8
North Carolina Symphony Foundation

To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.

Arts & Culture
9
Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children

Sunshine cottage school for deaf children promotes early identification and intervention for children who are deaf and hard of hearing and helps them develop their maximum potential through listening, spoken language, and literacy.

Education
10
Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California

To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.

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11
The Keswell School

The keswell school is a specialized school for children with autism spectrum disorder.

Education
12
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frankie Lemmon Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Silent Warrior Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $13,346,707 · EducationFRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER+2 more: $126,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $50,000 · PhilanthropySONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $53,274 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA DOWN SYNDROME ALLIANCE INC: $20,536 · Human ServicesNEXTSTEP FITNESS INC: $56,500 · HealthWAKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $31,946 · OtherSilent Warrior Foundation: $15,000 · Other
Education$13,472,707Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$73,810Health$56,500Other$46,946

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $13,346,707 over 9y, 72% of budgetLEMMON TREE ACADEMY: $106,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetNEXTSTEP FITNESS INC: $56,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $53,274 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSilent Warrior Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budget
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.

Triangle Community Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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