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Lance Family 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.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$1.0MHuman Services$75kPhilanthropy$20kInternational$20kScience & Tech$10kRecreation & Sports$5kEducation$5kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$581k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC$30,000
AMAZON MISSION INC$30,000
E2 FOUNDATION$25,000
KINGDOM ON THE MOVE CHURCH$25,000
KINGDOM LABS INC NFP$10,000
THE NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
ORBIS MINISTRIES INC$10,000
UNITED INDIAN MISSIONS INC$10,000
PURSUIT 53$10,000
H4OPE$5,000
UNITED INDIAN MISSIONS INC$5,000
THE NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC$5,000
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 (FY22–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUND THE TRUMPET MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%MISSION PRE-BORN INC: $25k → 16%MISSION PRE-BORN INC: $25k → 16%MISSION PRE-BORN INC: $15k → 16%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

IL
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
AZ
TN
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 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

12
14

Total granted

$1.0M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-13%

Still filing today

67%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AM
    AMAZON MISSION FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $495k · revenue +43% · 79% of their budget
  • EF
    E2 FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $124k · revenue +18% · 32% of their budget
  • MP
    Mission Pre-Born Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -7%
  • CT
    CONNECT THE WORLD
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -21%
  • JA
    JESUS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%

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
Propagate Media Incorporaton

This media outreach tool affords preachers and teachers of the Word in Christs Kingdom the global projection of media gospel. Our vision of Propagate Media Incorporation is to lift Jesus Christ higher for the world to see! But I, when I am…

Religion
2
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
3
Follow Him Media Inc
Religion
4
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
5
Explore God Network
6
Faithbytheword Incorporated

As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…

Human Services
7
Whole World Ministries

Train&equip leaders for churchs

Religion
8
Discover Your Mission Inc

Supporing missionaries worldwide

Religion
9
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
10
S E Ministries

None

Religion
11
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
12
A2 Ministries International Ltd
Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The for All Mankind Movement Inc and the most unlike its peers is Principle Based Leadership. 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 20 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%12%<5yr17%20%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr12%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%10%<5yr17%20%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr15%56%20–35yr10%7%35–55yr12%1%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
16%
4,465/28,454

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
8/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMAZON MISSION FOUNDATION INC — $494,500 · InternationalAMAZON MISSION FOUNDATION INCEVERY VILLAGE — $19,500 · InternationalUNITED INDIAN MISSIONS INC — $72,500 · OtherUNITED INDIAN MISSIONS INCWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC — $67,500 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS …CROSSROADS CHURCH OF ASPEN — $55,000 · OtherCROSSROADS CHURCH OF ASPENHOPE CHURCH HOUSTON — $30,000 · OtherHOPE CHURCH HOUSTONKINGDOM ON THE MOVE CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherKINGDOM ON THE MOVE CHURCHINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · OtherKINGDOM LABS INC NFP — $10,000 · OtherHOPE CITY LIVE INC — $10,000 · Other+4 more — $9,000 · OtherE2 FOUNDATION — $123,500 · ReligionE2 FOUNDATIONPursuit 53 — $55,000 · ReligionPursuit 53MARS HILL PRODUCTIONS INC — $34,000 · ReligionMARS HILL PRODUCTIONS INCCONNECT THE WORLD — $10,000 · ReligionJESUS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · ReligionORBIS MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · ReligionThe For All Mankind Movement Inc — $10,000 · Religion+5 more — $19,500 · Religion+5 moreMission Pre-Born Inc — $65,000 · Human ServicesSOUND THE TRUMPET MINISTRIES — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe New Horizons Foundation Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyPRINCIPLE BASED LEADERSHIP — $5,000 · EducationFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,000 · Youth Development
International$514,000Other$289,000Religion$272,000Human Services$75,000Philanthropy$20,000Education$5,000Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMAZON MISSION FOUNDATION INC — $494,500 over 8y, 79% of budgetE2 FOUNDATION — $123,500 over 7y, 32% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPursuit 53 — $55,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMARS HILL PRODUCTIONS INC — $34,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY VILLAGE — $19,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCONNECT THE WORLD — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJESUS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetThe For All Mankind Movement Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUND THE TRUMPET MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLAYMANS FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCIPLE BASED LEADERSHIP — $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSequoia Unlimited Inc — $4,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetENTRUSTED WORD MINISTRIES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE FOR ISRAEL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHAT DAY — $900 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX17.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · The Todd Brock Family Foundation · Christian Brothers Automotive Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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 Lance Family 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your 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
    2report 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, 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 Lance Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lance Family Foundation 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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