· Private foundation
Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $802k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WORTH OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $125,000 |
| THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC | $35,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST INC | $35,000 |
| FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY | $35,000 |
| PATH PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP | $35,000 |
| ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL & COMMUNITY CENTER | $35,000 |
| MARCH TO THE POLLS INC | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER COLLIN COUNTY | $30,000 |
| HOPE FARM INC | $25,000 |
| PHASED IN | $25,000 |
| RIVERTREE ACADEMY INC | $25,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH INC | $25,000 |
| CAFE MOMENTUM | $25,000 |
| DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 17 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; $375k 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
- TPTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY5× · 2019–2025 · $375k · revenue +41%
- SMSEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL7× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +0%
- HFHOPE FARM INC5× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- HHHEALING HANDS MEDICAL COMMUNITYone grant, 2023 · $75k
- CCCHILD CARE ASSOCIATESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $67k · revenue +72%
- TFThe Family Placeone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -44%
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.
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…
Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming and affirming environment for youth 18-24 experiencing homelessness providing short-term housing and case management. Elevate North Texas addresses youth homelessness from two angles: a hotel program…
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
Our mission is to provide accessible high-quality counseling, training, psychological evaluations, and educational testing that equip our clients to grow through lifes changes and challenges.
To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.
To empower adults experiencing homelessness in dallas with the tools to homeless recovery as they move into sustainable housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life and the most unlike its peers is Seagle Music Colony Inc D/B/a Seagle Festival. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
131 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 131 of the 153 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 Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds AIDS OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds METROCREST SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAY BACK HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds THE MAGDALEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY GRACE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LEGAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds Trinity Restoration Ministries ↗
- Who funds HOPE SUPPLY CO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TCS Education - Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION-TEXAS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds PEDIPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Perot Foundation · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation
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 Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc 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.