· Private foundation
Lantern Family Foundation
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN'S AUXILIARY | $23,125 |
| CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| TCU | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $220 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWOMEN'S AUXILIARY4× · 2021–2024 · $54k
- WAWOMEN'S AUXILIARY - CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $41k
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2019–2024 · $33k
Funded once
- CBCATTLE BARON'S BALLone grant, 2021 · $40k
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAN CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $37k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
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.
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 primary care to children in critically under served areas of the North Central Texas community in a private physician office setting.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
Provide dental, general pediatric, and pediatric sub-specialty services, including, but not limited to emergency department coverage, inpatient coverage, orthopedic surgery, and craniofacial orthodontics regardless of payor source or…
The organization shall undertake, sponsor, and administer basic and/or clinical research in children's health issues.children's medical center research institute at ut southwestern (cri) is a nonprofit research institute built on the…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.
Provide anesthesia services to patients at children's medical center of dallas. these services are provided without regard to a patient's ability to pay for the services.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PATHNORTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds THE JORDAN SPIETH FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lantern Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lantern Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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