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Les and Mary Puckett Childrens 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.

$188k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$433kRecreation & Sports$326kArts & Culture$209kHuman Services$191kHealth$130kReligion$119kFood & Nutrition$96kHousing & Shelter$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $167k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORT BEND CHILDRENS DISCOVERY CTR$30,000
CHILDRENS COALITION OF$30,000
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST$22,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WHARTON CO JUNIOR COLLEGE$10,000
TEXAS MARITIME MUSEUM$10,000
CAL FARLEYS$10,000
TEXAS LIONS CAMP$10,000
BRAZOSPORT COLLEGE$10,000
TEXANS ON MISSION - TEXAS BAPTIST MEN$10,000
GOOD SAMARITANS$5,000
EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY$5,000
MID COAST CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY$2,500
CRAFT TRAINING CENTER OF$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP ARANZAZU: $6k → 10%CHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO: $50k → 17%EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $5k → 8%CAMP ARANZAZU: $6k → 17%CAMP ARANZAZU: $6k → 17%CHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO: $5k → 17%CHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO: $3k → 17%CHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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AZ
NM
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NC
OK
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 44 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+151%

Still filing today

23%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • FB
    Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +12%
  • CC
    CHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO
    4× · 2018–2021 · $59k · revenue ×18
  • MC
    MID COAST CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY TRUST
    7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ROCKPORT
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TB
    TEXAS BAPTIST MEN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • SH
    SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN - GALVESTON
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Texas Flying Legends Museum
2
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
3
Friends of the Corsicana Public Library
Education
4
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
5
The Good Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
6
Fort Bend County Fair Association

Youth education and development are the primary focus of fair activities and programs.

Recreation & Sports
7
Convencion Bautista Hispana De Texas

The convencion bautista hispana de texas - the hispanic baptist convention of texas - convencion exists to serve its congregations and members to fulfill their god-inspired mission and vision. the vision of convencion is to become a family…

Religion
8
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
9
Texas Christian Foundation

Texas Christian Foundations mission is to mobilize resources by inspiring biblical generosity and educating Texans on ways their generosity can impact their community, Texas and the world.

Philanthropy
10
Usc - United Soccer Clubs

The mission of the United Soccer Clubs (USC) is to provide an exceptional platform for youth soccer in South Texas. We aim to elevate the game of soccer by fostering player, coach, and referee development, promoting parent education,…

Recreation & Sports
11
Love Fosters Hope

Love Fosters Hope is a Texas based Non-Profit Organization with many facets but one purpose To impact the lives of children and teens in foster care who have been abused, neglected or abandoned.

Human Services
12
Reaching Outdoors of Texas

Working togther to produce good fruit by reaching outdoors into god's creation.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Lions Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAL FARLEY'S — $166,000 · OtherCAL FARLEY'SCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST — $76,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN - GALVESTON — $60,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $57,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $56,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC — $53,000 · OtherCHILDRENS COALITION OF — $52,500 · OtherWHARTON CO JUNIOR COLLEGE — $51,500 · OtherMO-RANCH CONFERENCE CENTER — $50,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ROCKPORT — $50,000 · OtherTEXAS MARITIME MUSEUM — $42,500 · OtherYOUNG LIFE NEW MEXICO — $42,000 · OtherGULFWINDS RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CTR — $39,500 · Other+34 more — $310,000 · Other+34 moreFort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC — $180,000 · Arts & CultureFort Bend C…TEXAS LIONS CAMP INC — $147,000 · HealthTEXAS LIO…UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $94,000 · EducationBRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $21,500 · EducationCHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO — $58,500 · Human ServicesCamp Aranzazu Inc — $18,000 · Human ServicesEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY — $5,000 · Human ServicesMID COAST CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY TRUST — $44,500 · EmploymentGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council — $15,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,181,500Arts & Culture$180,000Health$147,000Education$115,500Human Services$81,500Employment$44,500Youth Development$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC — $180,000 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC — $147,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $94,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO — $58,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetMID COAST CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY TRUST — $44,500 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetBRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $21,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc — $18,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $11,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKI — $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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 Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC
  • Who funds TEXAS LIONS CAMP INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHILDRENS COALITION OF ARANSAS CO
  • Who funds MID COAST CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY TRUST
  • Who funds BRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CHAMPIONS KIDS CAMP INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Les and Mary Puckett Childrens 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Les and Mary Puckett Childrens Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Les and Mary Puckett Childrens 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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