· Private foundation
Lence Charitable Fund Inc
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k7 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $262k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALMOST HOME | $40,000 |
| ST VINCENT HOME | $30,000 |
| WOMEN IN CHARGE | $30,000 |
| ST MARTHA'S HALL | $25,000 |
| UNLEASHING POTENTIAL | $25,000 |
| PLACE OF SAFETY | $25,000 |
| BLESSED TERESA OF CALCUTTA | $25,000 |
| WOMAN'S PLACE | $25,000 |
| LYDIA'S HOUSE | $15,000 |
| MO SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $12,000 |
| OPERATION BACKPACK | $10,000 |
| LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR ABUSED WOMEN | $5,000 |
| LUTHERAN ASSOC FOR SPECIAL EDUC | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $5,000 |
| LIVING WELL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future. We accomplish our work in partnership…
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
Services for abused women & their children
SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
To serve st. louis' most vulnerable senior women, nourishing their social, physical and emotional needs, and enhancing their quality of life through compassionate care.
Meta house ends the generational cycle of addiction by healing women and strengthening families.
Alive's mission is to provide counseling, emergency sanctuary and other critical services to adults and children impacted by domestic abuse, as well as to increase awareness in order to create a supportive community.
Our vision: a community where everyone is free from abuse. our mission: empowering women and families to rebuild their lives free of domestic abuse through emergency services, education, and advocacy.
Educate, advocate, and empower to end violence.
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unleashing Potential and the most unlike its peers is Final Exit Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 20 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN CHARGE ↗
- Who funds UNLEASHING POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds ST MARTHA'S HALL ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds ROYCEMORE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FINAL EXIT NETWORK INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Pott Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lence Charitable Fund Inc 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.
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.