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Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$945k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$1.9MArts & Culture$1.3MHealth$763kHousing & Shelter$675kCrime & Legal$448kYouth Development$335kEducation$295kReligion$192kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $802k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORT WORTH OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$125,000
ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL & COMMUNITY CENTER$35,000
THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC$35,000
CHILDREN FIRST INC$35,000
PATH PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP$35,000
FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY$35,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER COLLIN COUNTY$30,000
MARCH TO THE POLLS INC$30,000
CITY HOUSE INC$25,000
TRAC -TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER$25,000
PHASED IN$25,000
CAFE MOMENTUM$25,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH INC$25,000
RIVERTREE ACADEMY INC$25,000
PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER$25,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PATH PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $35k → 12%CITY HOUSE INC: $25k → 5%FORT WORTH HOPE CENTER: $15k → 11%FORT WORTH HOPE CENTER: $15k → 11%TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $25k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $25k → 14%TRAC -TRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $25k → 14%LORETO HOUSE: $12k → 8%BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 14%HOPE FARM INC: $25k → 11%DALLAS LEGAL HOSPICE: $15k → 14%HOPE FARM INC: $25k → 11%HOPE FARM INC: $25k → 11%DALLAS LEGAL HOSPICE: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $35k → 11%HOPE FARM INC: $25k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $20k → 11%6 STONES MISSION NETWORK: $15k → 11%HOPE FARM INC: $25k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15k → 11%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $35k → 14%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $25k → 14%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $25k → 14%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $20k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $25k → 14%CLAYTON DABNEY FDN FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $15k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $20k → 14%CITYSQUARE: $15k → 14%THE COUNSELING PLACE: $30k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $15k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $15k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $25k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $25k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE INC: $20k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $15k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $15k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $15k → 14%OUR CALLING INC: $15k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $25k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $20k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $20k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $20k → 14%FAMILY PLACE INC: $60k → 14%NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $15k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES INC: $15k → 14%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 58 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
77

Total granted

$4.4M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+13%

Still filing today

88%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TP
    THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY
    5× · 2019–2025 · $375k · revenue +41%
  • SM
    SEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +0%
  • HF
    HOPE FARM INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • HH
    HEALING HANDS MEDICAL COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • CC
    CHILD CARE ASSOCIATESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $67k · revenue +72%
  • TF
    The Family Place
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -44%
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.

1
UnBound North Texas

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.

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2
Hope's Door New Beginning Center

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…

Human Services
3
Elevate North Texas

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…

Health
4
His Story Coaching and Counseling

Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.

Human Services
5
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

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.

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6
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
7
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

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…

Employment
8
Tip of Texas Family Outreach Inc

To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

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9
Safe City Commission

Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.

Crime & Legal
10
The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology

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.

Health
11
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
12
Bridge Steps

To empower adults experiencing homelessness in dallas with the tools to homeless recovery as they move into sustainable housing.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life; 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.
04the grantee network

131 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/131
Grantees still filing
76/131
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH INC: $245,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH INCCHILDREN FIRST INC: $160,000 · OtherCHILDREN FIRST INC+71 more: $2,078,638 · Other+71 moreHOPE FARM INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INCMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIAH INCMETROCREST SERVICES: $75,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICESOURCALLING INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INCCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $70,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFORMIN…The Family Place: $60,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS LEGAL HOSPICE: $57,500 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY CO: $55,000 · Human ServicesJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARE: $45,000 · Human Services+22 more: $462,000 · Human Services+22 moreFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $725,000 · Arts & CultureFort Worth Opera As…FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $105,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH MUSEUM O…THE SANTA FE OPERA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANTA FE OPERATHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $65,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $375,000 · Housing & ShelterPhased In: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterSOULS HARBOR INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterDALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterAIDS OUTREACH CENTER: $96,000 · HealthSIMPLY GRACE: $60,000 · HealthHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · HealthOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $50,000 · HealthRAINBOW DAYS INC: $35,000 · HealthRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $25,000 · HealthHEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $20,000 · HealthLiving for Zachary: $15,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREATER DALLAS: $15,000 · HealthWRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook: $15,000 · Health+3 more: $27,500 · HealthSEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL: $185,000 · EducationCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $60,000 · EducationGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationKING'S ACADEMY: $30,000 · EducationCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationLIFESCHOOL OF DALLAS: $25,000 · EducationLIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationTrinity Restoration Ministries: $55,000 · Crime & LegalTEXAS LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 · Crime & LegalNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $40,000 · Crime & LegalBRIDGES TO LIFE: $35,000 · Crime & LegalEXODUS MINISTRIES: $30,000 · Crime & LegalONE MAN'S TREASURE: $20,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY COMPASS: $15,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,483,638Human Services$1,284,500Arts & Culture$1,085,000Housing & Shelter$500,000Health$408,500Education$400,000Crime & Legal$245,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $725,000 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $375,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSEAGLE MUSIC COLONY INC D/B/A SEAGLE FESTIVAL: $185,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST INC: $160,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetHOPE FARM INC: $125,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $105,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $105,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $100,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAIDS OUTREACH CENTER: $96,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $75,605 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $75,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WAY BACK HOUSE INC: $70,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE: $67,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD CARE ASSOCIATES: $67,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Place: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSIMPLY GRACE: $60,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDALLAS LEGAL HOSPICE: $57,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTrinity Restoration Ministries: $55,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO: $55,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPEDIPLACE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTCS Education - Texas Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALS ASSOCIATION-TEXAS CHAPTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCenter for Survivors of Torture: $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRANSITION RESOURCE ACTION CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTEXAS LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget22KILL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWELL COMMUNITY: $37,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationHillcrest FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…The Rees-Jones Founda…Texas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationGil and Dody Weaver F…Hoblitzelle FoundationThe Perot FoundationThe Ninnie L Baird Fo…
W P & Bulah Luse FoundationTX124.9× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    44report 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.

    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 153 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-PF 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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