· Private foundation
Lewis & Juaniece Madden Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $421k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Port Lavaca Main Street Theatre Inc | $151,935 |
| Calhoun County Senior Citizens Assn | $120,000 |
| Harbor Childrens Alliance Victim | $80,000 |
| Pregnancy Help Center of the Crossr | $68,725 |
| Calhoun County Community Ministries | $45,000 |
| Friends of Port OConnor Library Inc | $35,000 |
| Calhoun County Library System | $25,000 |
| Calhoun County 4-H Trap Skeet Clu | $23,000 |
| VFW Calhoun County Post No 4403 | $22,482 |
| Port OConnor Community Service Club | $20,000 |
| Port Lavaca Art Guild Inc | $17,099 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,295 |
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 (FY17–25, $394k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $346k 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
- PHPREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF THE CROSSROADS AREA4× · 2021–2024 · $214k · revenue +4% · 36% of their budget
- CCCALHOUN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSO3× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +35%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PORT O CONNOR LIBRARY INC3× · 2018–2025 · $131k · revenue +15% · 66% of their budget
Funded once
- PLPORT LAVACA MAIN STREET INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $97k · revenue +83% · 98% of their budget
- FUFirst United Methodist Churchone grant, 2023 · $50k
- PCPOC COMMUNITY GARDEN CLUBone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
Senior center serving sr meals
Maintaining a public library in the village of pascoag
Free Public Library
Provide info and assist to expe
Providing the elderly services at little or not cost
Senior citizens center
Free library services to the community
Providing educational and recreational reading materials, reference materials, cultural and informational programs and non-reading materials to all ages in the port carbon area
Produce plays utilizing community talent
Provide training and support to the fire department for the citizens of cove, texas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Port O Connor Community Service Club and the most unlike its peers is Calhoun County Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 23 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 CALHOUN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF THE CROSSROADS AREA ↗
- Who funds THE PORT LAVACA ART GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CALHOUN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PORT O CONNOR LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds PORT LAVACA MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds PORT O CONNOR COMMUNITY SERVICE CLUB ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE 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.
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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 Lewis & Juaniece Madden 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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