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Lackey Foundation Inc

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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$113kYouth Development$52kFood & Nutrition$21kEducation$14kInternational$10kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$6kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$266k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST LED COMMUNITIES$7,000
YOUNG LIFE$5,000
MIRACLE WORKERS FOUNDATION$3,500
ONE GENERATION AWAY$3,000
FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY$1,000
TALBOTS DRESS FOR SUCCESS$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 24%HOPE SMILES: $1k → 4%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES: $5k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MA
CO
MO
TN
NC
MS
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$190k · 10 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$190k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+120%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +59%
  • CL
    CHRIST LED COMMUNITIES INC FORMERLY CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +46%
  • OG
    ONE GENERATION AWAY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +370%

Funded once

  • WM
    WALKER MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • GM
    GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

3
Mission Mississippi

To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.

Civil Rights
4
Faith School of Theology

Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…

5
Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

To equip men to be preachers, pastors, and churchmen for christ's kingdom among the nations.

Education
6
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
7
God's Bible School College & Missionary Training Home

God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…

Education
8
Financial Planning Ministry

Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.

Health
9
Heritage Christian Schools Inc

The mission of heritage christian school is to glorify god through the discipleship of students and the pursuit of excellence in education with the bible as the foundation and jesus christ as our focus.

Education
10
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
11
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
12
Hope International University

The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Plantation Foundation. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRENTWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH — $49,000 · OtherBRENTWOOD BAPTIST CHURCHCHRIST LED COMMUNITIES INC FORMERLY CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS — $44,900 · OtherCHRIST LED COMMUNITIES INC FORMERLY CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONCEP…WALKER MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH — $7,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $5,000 · OtherGRACE WORKS INC — $5,000 · OtherWAVERLY FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $5,000 · Other+13 more — $16,972 · Other+13 moreYOUNG LIFE — $51,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE GENERATION AWAY — $12,500 · Civil RightsSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,300 · ReligionGREATER EUROPE MISSION — $1,000 · ReligionNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW HOPE ACADEMY — $8,000 · EducationFRANKLIN CLASSICAL SCHOOL — $1,000 · EducationFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY — $1,000 · EducationGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesMississippi State University Foundation Inc — $2,500 · Human ServicesHOPE SMILES — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$132,872Youth Development$52,000Civil Rights$12,500Religion$11,300Housing & Shelter$10,000Education$10,000Human Services$8,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUNG LIFE — $51,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST LED COMMUNITIES INC FORMERLY CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS — $44,900 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetONE GENERATION AWAY — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE ACADEMY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEN OF VALOR — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WELL OUTREACH INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN CLASSICAL SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER EUROPE MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SMILES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE PLANTATION FOUNDATION — $950 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Lackey 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lackey Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lackey Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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