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Lesley Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$195k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.3MArts & Culture$690kAnimals$678kHousing & Shelter$475kHuman Services$400kHealth$340kCrime & Legal$270kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $659k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$195,000
HEIRLOOM CACAO PRESERVATION FUND$164,450
HULA PRESERVATION SOCIETY$99,940
SHUMLA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCHEDUC CTR$80,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROSEBUD$70,000
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$50,000
CTR ORANGUTANCHIMPANZEE CONSERVATION$35,000
FURRY FRIENDZY$30,000
GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN$30,000
GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL$30,000
TRAFFICK911$25,000
MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC$20,000
ENNIS PUBLIC THEATRE$20,000
METROCREST SERVICES$20,000
LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC$15,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHE SUPPLY: $10k → 8%TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%YOUTH 180: $15k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $10k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $30k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $30k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $15k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $20k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $20k → 14%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $15k → 14%HOPE SUPPLY: $5k → 14%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

WA
SD
CA
UT
DC
HI
LA
GA
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.6M · 37 repeat orgs$818k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
31

Total granted

$5.6M
$543k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+8%

Still filing today

84%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalEducationOther

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

  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +38%
  • HC
    Heirloom Cacao Preservation Fund
    5× · 2019–2025 · $730k · revenue +76% · 74% of their budget
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    6× · 2019–2025 · $435k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • HD
    HOPE'S DOOR dba HOPE'S DOOR NEW
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • HP
    HOME POINT
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +10%
  • DS
    DALLAS SERVICES dba CENTER FOR VISION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k

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
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
2
UnBound North Texas

Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.

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3
Texas Defender Service

See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…

Civil Rights
4
Central Texas Spca

Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…

Animals
5
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
6
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
7
Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center

To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.

Human Services
8
Safe City Commission

Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.

Crime & Legal
9
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
10
The Dallas County System of Services Inc

To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.

Human Services
11
The Sanctuary Foster Care Services

Achieving permanent sanctuary and healing homes for children and families from hard places.

Human Services
12
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Furry Friendzy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and CareDisability Support ServicesChristian Evangelical Minis…Community Health CentersPerforming Arts Centers & O…Pediatric Healthcare SystemsCrisis Housing & Family Sup…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%2%<5yr17%2%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr9%25%35–55yr11%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr9%22%35–55yr11%29%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
17%
10,666/63,141

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 77 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
46/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $435,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient — $161,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHUMLA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCHEDUC CTR — $155,825 · OtherSHUMLA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCHEDUC CTRCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR — $90,000 · OtherJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC — $75,000 · OtherTEXAS LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN — $115,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC — $100,000 · OtherCenter for Survivors of Torture — $100,000 · Other+36 more — $955,150 · Other+36 moreTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $1,245,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERS…DESIGN CONNECT CREATE — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $15,000 · EducationHeirloom Cacao Preservation Fund — $729,537 · EnvironmentHeirloom Cacao P…GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL — $220,000 · EnvironmentGREAT PLAINS RES…INTERNATIONAL BALLET THEATRE — $200,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATION…Ennis Public Theatre — $150,000 · Arts & CultureEnnis Publi…HULA PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $99,940 · Arts & CultureHULA PRESER…Artist Outreach Inc — $95,000 · Arts & CultureArtist Outr…GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN — $64,205 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL FUND…Deep Vellum Publishing Inc — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFURRY FRIENDZY — $330,000 · AnimalsFURRY FRIEN…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $85,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIEND…Take Me Home Pet Rescue Inc — $65,000 · AnimalsTake Me Hom…BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $45,000 · AnimalsBLUEBONNET …Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc — $35,000 · AnimalsCenter for …CHIMP HAVEN INC — $30,000 · AnimalsHumane Society of North Texas — $25,000 · Animals+3 more — $37,500 · Animals+3 morePROMISE HOUSE INC — $390,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME POINT — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterPhased In — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $75,000 · Health29 ACRES INC — $25,000 · HealthSIMPLY GRACE — $15,000 · HealthRAINBOW DAYS INC — $10,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY NORTH TEXAS — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · Health
Other$2,186,975Education$1,310,000Environment$949,537Arts & Culture$654,145Animals$652,500Housing & Shelter$440,000Health$240,000

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 budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $1,245,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHeirloom Cacao Preservation Fund — $729,537 over 5y, 74% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $435,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC — $390,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFURRY FRIENDZY — $330,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetGREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL — $220,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BALLET THEATRE — $200,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetEnnis Public Theatre — $150,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetTEXAS LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN — $115,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Survivors of Torture — $100,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetArtist Outreach Inc — $95,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WAY BACK HOUSE INC — $65,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTake Me Home Pet Rescue Inc — $65,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN — $64,205 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDESIGN CONNECT CREATE — $50,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetTraffick911 — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $45,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHOME POINT — $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPrevent Blindness Texas — $27,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budget29 ACRES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Food Bank — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHumane Society of North Texas — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDeep Vellum Publishing Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDALLAS SERVICES — $20,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWings of a Butterfly — $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTECO THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMPLY GRACE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH 180 INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPhased In — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGENAUSTIN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Little Elm Animal Support — $12,500 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetRAINBOW DAYS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Communities Foundatio…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Texas Women's Foundat…The Dallas FoundationHattie Mae Lesley Fou…The Moody FoundationThe Ninnie L Baird Fo…Texas Instruments Fou…Hoblitzelle FoundationTheodore and Beulah B…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX54.7× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc

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 Lesley Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report 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

    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.

    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 77 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.

    Source object · view filing

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