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Jean Lykes Grace Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $35,190 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN THE DIVINE | $8,000 |
| EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH | $8,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $8,000 |
| INTERNATION CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET | $5,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| RED COLLAR RESCUE | $5,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $5,000 |
| KSBJ EDUCATION FDN | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL CHEERS | $5,000 |
| AMISTAD MISSION | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $9k) 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +24%- CCChristian Community Service Center Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +12%
Compassion International Incorporated6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CCCSCone grant, 2020 · $8k
- MPMemorial Park Conservancy Incone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +5%
- SMSTEEL MAGNOLIA MOMSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +57%
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.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
The primary mission or purpose of methodist health system is to serve people in defined service areas by meeting their health needs effectively and in a manner that reflects a "commitment to the christian concepts of life and learning" as…
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Illuman. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 58 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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CHEERS ↗
- Who funds AMISTAD MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds RED COLLAR RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
- Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids Dallas fka After-School Opportunity Lab ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS ↗
- Who funds Nehemiah Center Inc ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Heights Interfaith Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HIS CHILDREN 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Jean Lykes Grace Foundation 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.
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