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Henry & Tommy Lehman Charitable Foundati

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
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.

Youth Development$185kEducation$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$93kRecreation & Sports$55kEnvironment$50kArts & Culture$50kHealth$32kPublic Benefit$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$853k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEE COUNTY TX VETERANS ASSOCIATION$30,000
LEE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION$25,000
LEE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BASS FISHING CLUB$12,000
TANGLEWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$12,000
CITY OF GIDDINGS ANIMAL CONTROL & SHELTER$2,600
Individual grant recipient$1,500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TEJAS HEALTH CARE: $32k → 11%EBENEZER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $27k → 12%LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $30k → 12%NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL: $250 → 13%LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15k → 12%NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL: $250 → 13%LEE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BASS FISHING CLUB: $12k → 12%LEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTER: $100k → 12%LEE COUNTY: $50k → 12%LEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTER: $50k → 12%ST MARGARET'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $40k → 12%LEE COUNTY TX VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 12%LEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTER: $25k → 12%LEE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%LEE COUNTY: $20k → 12%TEXAS WENDISH HERITAGE SOCIETY: $20k → 12%ST MARGARET'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20k → 12%ST MARGARET'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20k → 12%GIDDINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20k → 12%LEE COUNTY FIRST RESPONDERS: $15k → 12%GIDDINGS ISD: $13k → 12%LAGRANGE BAPTIST DISTRICT ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $10k → 12%LEE COUNTY VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%LEE COUNTY VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%CITY OF GIDDINGS ANIMAL CONTROL & SHELTER: $3k → 12%GIDDINGS ISD: $2k → 12%GIDDINGS ISD: $1k → 12%GIDDINGS ISD: $1k → 12%GIDDINGS ISD: $1k → 12%GIDDINGS ISD: $1k → 12%GIDDINGS ISD: $1k → 12%GIDDINGS ISD: $1k → 12%GIDDINGS ISD: $1k → 12%TANGLEWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20k → 12%TANGLEWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $12k → 12%LEXINGTON ISD: $750 → 12%LEXINGTON ISD: $500 → 12%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.
$438k · 9 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$438k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+66%

Still filing today

33%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • LC
    LEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTER
    3× · 2018–2023 · $175k · revenue +34% · 41% of their budget
  • SM
    ST MARGARET'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
    3× · 2017–2019 · $80k
  • LC
    LEE COUNTY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $70k

Funded once

  • TH
    TEJAS HEALTH CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue +38%
  • EL
    EBENEZER LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $27k
  • TW
    TEXAS WENDISH HERITAGE SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +66%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 19 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARGARET'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $80,000 · OtherST MARGARET'S CATHOLIC CHURCHLEE COUNTY: $70,000 · OtherLEE COUNTYTANGLEWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $32,000 · OtherTANGLEWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTEBENEZER LUTHERAN CHURCH: $26,650 · OtherEBENEZER LUTHERAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGIDDINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 · OtherGIDDINGS PUBLIC LIBRARYLEE COUNTY FIRST RESPONDERS: $15,000 · OtherLEE COUNTY VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $13,000 · OtherLEE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BASS FISHING CLUB: $12,000 · Other+3 more: $13,850 · OtherLEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTER: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTERLINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $45,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $500 · Public Safety & DisasterTEJAS HEALTH CARE: $32,000 · HealthLEE COUNTY TX VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Public BenefitLEE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsTEXAS WENDISH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$303,500Youth Development$175,000Public Safety & Disaster$45,500Health$32,000Public Benefit$30,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Arts & Culture$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTER: $175,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetLINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $45,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetTEJAS HEALTH CARE: $32,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTEXAS WENDISH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds LEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
  • Who funds TEJAS HEALTH CARE ↗
  • Who funds LEE COUNTY TX VETERANS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LEE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS WENDISH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Henry & Tommy Lehman Charitable Foundati funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry & Tommy Lehman Charitable Foundati. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 19 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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