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Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation at a glance

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Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$512k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$96k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$360kHealth$230kYouth Development$226kPhilanthropy$201kHuman Services$191kEducation$140kRecreation & Sports$87kHousing & Shelter$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $257k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $146k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$96,005
BAYLOR SCOTT AND WHITE FOUNDATION$50,000
MIDLAND CHILDREN'S REHABILITATION CENTER$35,000
HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$26,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
CEDAR CREST GOLF COURSE$23,646
ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION$20,000
HUMAN IMPACT$17,000
24 HOUR CLUB$16,500
YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE$16,000
MANE GAIT$15,000
FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY$12,500
CARE$10,000
CRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
CHRIST'S FAMILY CLINIC$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%MANE GAIT: $26k → 5%MANE GAIT: $15k → 5%MANE GAIT: $14k → 5%MANE GAIT: $9k → 5%MANE GAIT: $9k → 5%MANE GAIT: $5k → 5%MANE GAIT: $3k → 5%MANE GAIT: $3k → 5%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $10k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $5k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $5k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $5k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $3k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $3k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $2k → 14%THE MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $1k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%HUMAN IMPACT: $20k → 14%HUMAN IMPACT: $17k → 14%HUMAN IMPACT: $10k → 14%HUMAN IMPACT: $5k → 14%HOUSING FORWARD (METRO DALLAS HOMELESS ALLIANCE): $3k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $5k → 14%FAMILY PLACE: $5k → 14%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

OR
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
AR
NC
DC
GA
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 46 repeat orgs$642k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
75

Total granted

$1.4M
$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+47%

Still filing today

70%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyReligionYouth 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

  • YB
    YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +66%
  • MG
    Mane Gait
    8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +210%
  • TM
    THE MAGDALEN HOUSE
    6× · 2018–2023 · $57k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE DALLAS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • WC
    WATERMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
3
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
4
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
5
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
6
North Texas Christian Foundation

National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.

Philanthropy
7
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
8
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
9
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
10
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
11
Trinity Charter School

The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…

Education
12
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salesmanship Club Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Family 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

87 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. 87 of the 144 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/87
Grantees still filing
63/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

24 HOUR CLUB: $157,000 · Other24 HOUR CLUBBAYLOR SCOTT AND WHITE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherBAYLOR SCOTT AND WHITE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $96,005 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $67,791 · OtherTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE: $56,753 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION: $52,000 · OtherCITY OF REFUGE DALLAS: $50,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (HPPC): $50,000 · OtherWATERMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION: $50,000 · OtherOUR CALLING: $48,500 · Other+82 more: $576,714 · Other+82 moreMane Gait: $82,542 · Human ServicesMane GaitTHE HUMAN IMPACT: $52,000 · Human ServicesTHE HUMAN IMP…Turner 12: $40,000 · Human ServicesTurner 12The Family Place: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Pl…MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMI…BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesBEHIND EVERY …+5 more: $14,000 · Human Services+5 moreYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $100,452 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT SHELTER INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $17,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $7,625 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBURNING TREE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyThe Stallings Award Foundation: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,700 · PhilanthropyMIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $45,000 · HealthCLAYTON DABNEY LEGACY FUND: $30,000 · HealthSHARED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $12,500 · HealthWest Texas Rehabilitation Center Foundation: $6,250 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthAMPLIFIED MINDS: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $3,900 · HealthHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EducationTRINITY SCHOOL INC: $11,000 · EducationCRISTO REY DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $10,000 · EducationHOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationHIGHLAND PARK SPORTS CLUB: $5,000 · EducationDallas Theological Seminary: $3,500 · Education+8 more: $14,003 · EducationCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $41,600 · InternationalJUDEA HARVEST INCORPORATED: $5,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $2,500 · International
Other$1,354,763Human Services$251,542Youth Development$144,452Philanthropy$108,825Health$107,650Education$86,503International$49,100

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 budgetYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $100,452 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetMane Gait: $82,542 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MAGDALEN HOUSE: $56,753 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HUMAN IMPACT: $52,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $41,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTurner 12: $40,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetCLAYTON DABNEY LEGACY FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT: $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Family Place: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS VALUES: $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SHELTER INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetI Am A Golfer Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRecovery Resource Council: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $12,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE TOLSON GROUP: $12,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTRINITY SCHOOL INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $7,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $7,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalesmanship Club Foundation: $6,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Texas Rehabilitation Center Foundation: $6,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUICIDE AND CRISIS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetJUDEA HARVEST INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK SPORTS CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDARBY'S WARRIOR SUPPORT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Mane Gait ↗
  • Who funds THE MAGDALEN HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMAN IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds Turner 12 ↗
  • Who funds CLAYTON DABNEY LEGACY FUND ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARSHOT ↗
  • Who funds The Family Place ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS VALUES ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds I Am A Golfer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC ↗
  • Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
  • Who funds Recovery Resource Council ↗
  • Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
  • Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Texas Women's Foundat…Texas Instruments Fou…Community Foundation …The Moody FoundationHillcrest FoundationMeadows Foundation IncUnited Way of Metropo…Hoblitzelle Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX65.1× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Moody Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hoblitzelle 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 Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh 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 144 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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