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Leota Steed Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS | $85,000 |
| UNITED REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HANDS TO HANDS | $15,000 |
| FAITH MISSION | $10,000 |
| THE KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| CHRIST ACADEMY | $6,735 |
| FIRST STEP WICHITA FALLS INC | $5,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE YOUTH SENTER | $5,000 |
| STRAIGHT STREET | $5,000 |
| CASA OF RED RIVER | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WICHITA FALLS | $5,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS REHAB CENTER | $5,000 |
| BIG BORHTERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| RATHGEBER HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF WF | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CACHRIST ACADEMY3× · 2020–2024 · $147k · revenue +53%
- HOHospice of Wichita Falls Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +18%
- RHRathgeber Hospitality House5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MSMIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $15k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $10k
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
Formerly ywca wichita, the wichita family crisis center (wfcc) began operations in wichita, ks in 1907. wfcc's mission is to eliminate domestic violence in our community by supporting survivors through shelter, education & advocacy.
The organization is dedicated to providing quality, comprehensive services to pregnant women, infants, and toddlers. teaming with other agencies enables them to help each child and family achieve social competency. early head start…
To provide emergency/supplemental assistance in the form of food, clothing, household items, utility, rent and mortgage aid to people in need in the waco community.also provides case management assistance to people wanting to become…
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
In partnership with the community, christmas in action rehabilitates the homes of low income elderly and low income disabled so that they may continue to live in warmth, safety and independence.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
Wichita area sexual assault center works with individuals and communities through comprehensive services and education to create a culture of intolerance for sexual violence and an atmosphere of healing for those impacted by it.
Women's and children's crisis shelter is committed to providing safety, shelter and hope to victims of domestic violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Central Texas Community Health Care Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 36 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 CHRIST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc ↗
- Who funds Rathgeber Hospitality House ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Patsy's House Children's Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF WICHITA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds North Central Texas Community Health Care Center ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEP OF WICHITA FALLS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF WEST TX INC ↗
- Who funds Project Back to School ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA COUNTY ↗
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: James N McCoy Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · The Fain Foundation · Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · Donnell Foundation · Julia Lee Taubert Foundation · Guinn Foundation Inc · J S Bridwell Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Kadane Foundation · Gene Conley Foundation · Bill & Jan 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 Leota Steed 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.
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.
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