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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ORBIS MINISTRIES INC$10,000
PURSUIT 53$10,000
THE NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
UNITED INDIAN MISSIONS INC$10,000
UNITED INDIAN MISSIONS INC$5,000
THE NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC$5,000
H4OPE$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

IL
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
AZ
TN
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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%
-7%

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
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

  • 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

  • HC
    HOPE CITY LIVE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • ST
    SOUND THE TRUMPET MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • CT
    CONNECT THE WORLD
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +5%
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
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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The for All Mankind Movement Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 CHURCHHOPE CITY LIVE INC: $10,000 · OtherKINGDOM LABS INC NFP: $10,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES 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 INCORBIS MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · ReligionCONNECT THE WORLD: $10,000 · ReligionThe For All Mankind Movement Inc: $10,000 · ReligionJESUS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $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 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 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 budgetSOUND THE TRUMPET MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCONNECT THE WORLD: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe For All Mankind Movement Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJESUS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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 budgetONE FOR ISRAEL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENTRUSTED WORD MINISTRIES: $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
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.

Greater Houston Commu…Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Servant FoundationThe Todd Brock Family…Christian Brothers Au…Shell USA Company Fou…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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, 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 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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