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Lackey Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

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 (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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
CO
MO
TN
NC
MS
GA
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+93%
+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
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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +59%
  • CL
    CHRIST LED COMMUNITIES INC FORMERLY CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +93%
  • 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
  • WF
    WAVERLY FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

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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…

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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,…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; 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 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. 18 of the 31 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherWAVERLY FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherGRACE WORKS INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SMILES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRANKLIN CLASSICAL SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER EUROPE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $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
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.

The Community Foundat…United Way of Middle …Servant FoundationRaymond James Charita…Hca Healthcare Founda…Natl Christian Charit…The US Charitable Gif…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 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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