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Inken & Les Willis Foundation at a glance

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Inken & Les Willis Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$154kHuman Services$122kCrime & Legal$57kRecreation & Sports$35kHealth$8kYouth Development$1k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
$11,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$30,000
RANSOMED LIFE INC$15,000
CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$11,250
MARBLE FALLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$11,250
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$10,250
ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION$8,000
ADOPT A NEEDY FAMILY$3,250
SHACELFORD COUNTY LIBRARY$1,000
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 (FY21–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RANSOMED LIFE INC: $50k → 16%RANSOMED LIFE INC: $20k → 16%RANSOMED LIFE INC: $15k → 16%ADOPT A NEEDY FAMILY: $6k → 16%ADOPT A NEEDY FAMILY: $3k → 16%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $11k → 16%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $10k → 16%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 6 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$252k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+18%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • RL
    RANSOMED LIFE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +53%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO
    5× · 2017–2021 · $57k · revenue +84%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CB
    CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +18%
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
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
2
Austin Christian Educational Foundation Dba St Francis School

Operation of a private school ranging from pre-k to 8th grade.

Education
3
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
4
Fresno Christian Schools

Equip young people for life and service for jesus christ through biblical foundations, christ-like character development, and academic preparation in partnership with the home and local church.

Education
5
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
6
Fond Du Lac Christian School Inc

To serve the christian home and church by disciplining students academically and spiritually; helping each student attain a biblical worldview and their full potential as unique and beloved creations of a sovereign god.

Education
7
Choose to Succeed Inc

To ensure that every family has access to exceptional, tuition-free public education options by attracting the nation's best public charter schools to san antonio, tx.

Philanthropy
8
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
9
Greater Austin Christian Foundation

Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.

Religion
10
Criswell College

The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.

Education
11
San Angelo Christian Academy

To provide academic excellence in a Christ-centered environment that exemplifies teaching children the principles that equip them for spiritual growth needed to be a servant of Christ.

Education
12
Scanlan Foundation

To promote the catholic faith and practices in texas by supporting catholic religious, educational & charitable activities in texas.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas; the most unlike its peers is Adopt a Needy Family Inc. 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 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RANSOMED LIFE INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesRANSOMED LIFE INCCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $21,250 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SO…ADOPT A NEEDY FAMILY INC: $8,875 · Human ServicesADOPT A NEEDY FAMILY INCCROSSROADS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $45,000 · OtherCROSSROADS CHRISTIAN SCHOO…SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHO…ASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $8,000 · OtherASCENSION SETON FOUNDATIONCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER: $5,625 · OtherCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENT…+1 more: $1,000 · OtherMARBLE FALLS ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $78,750 · EducationMARBLE FALLS ISD EDUCAT…CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO: $56,500 · Civil RightsCHILD ADVOCATES S…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $35,250 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP…YOUNG LIFE: $1,250 · Youth Development
Human Services$115,125Other$89,625Education$78,750Civil Rights$56,500Youth Development$36,500

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 budgetRANSOMED LIFE INC: $85,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetMARBLE FALLS ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $78,750 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO: $56,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $35,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $21,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,250 over 1y, 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.

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.

Nustar FoundationThe Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Nustar FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nustar Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Inken & Les Willis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inken & Les Willis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    5report 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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