· Private foundation
Lewis H Pool 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
- Under $10k21 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CISD Education Foundation | $21,250 |
| Panola College Foundation | $15,000 |
| Living Hope for Honduras | $15,000 |
| ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Christian Works | $5,000 |
| Prestoncrest Church of Christ | $5,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $5,000 |
| Christ's Family Clinic | $5,000 |
| Montgomery Blvd Church of Christ | $5,000 |
| Methodist Children's Home | $3,000 |
| Gold Network of East Texas | $2,700 |
| Presbyterian Ear Institute | $2,500 |
| Rahab's Retreat Ranch | $2,000 |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation | $2,000 |
| TCA Independent Social Committee | $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 (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- HCHERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY5× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +121%
- PCPANOLA COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +27%
- AAALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY7× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- LHLiving Hope co Broadstreet Churchone grant, 2018 · $10k
- NFNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +34%
- JJJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -19%
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 educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
Our mission at temple christian school is to glorify god by providing for students a christ-centered education marked by excellence and grounded in biblical truth.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Its purpose is to offer a holistic educational program that will motivate the student to value and achieve academi excellence within the context of commitment to moral and spiritual values.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
Pinnacle Christian School serves to meet the education needs of families in the greater Parker County area by providing complete, advanced, Bible-based academic K-8th grade instruction taught by highly-qualified teachers on Tuesdays and…
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
Mckinney christian academy exists to honor jesus christ by teaching students to live biblically through education of mind, body, and spirit.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
Provide christ-centered education in a classroom setting
In partnership with parents, hca develops students who impact the kingdon and their culture b employing a christ-centered curriculum taught with excellence by gifted educators who embrace the classical model of education. hca emphasized…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Christian Academy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Panola County Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 59 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 HERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PANOLA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Christian Works For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds MISSION CARTHAGE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN EAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds GOLD NETWORK OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SHARED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Independent Social Committee ↗
- Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT STRING POWER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION 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: The Charles C Matthews Foundation · The Crain Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 H Pool 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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