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LII Lennox Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$780k
Granted FY2023
287
Grants FY2023
32
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 287 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k265 grants · $328k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $352k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$500
Median grant
32
States reached
$209k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Operation Warm$100,000
Special Olympics Texas$49,000
Josiah Whites Quakerdale Foundation$27,500
The Storehouse of Collin County$25,000
Metrocrest Services$25,000
Ruths Cottage and The Patticake House$25,000
Friends of the Grenada Area Chamber of Commerce$23,000
Circle Ten Council Boy Scouts of America$20,000
Isha Foundation Inc$15,634
Clifford H Ted Rees Jr Scholarship Foundation$15,000
Brother Charlies Rescue Center Inc$15,000
University of North Texas$12,000
American Heart Association$10,000
Family Gateway$10,000
Cornerstone Childrens Ranch$10,000
02The need
02

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 (FY23–23, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Americas Mighty Warriors: $264 → 11%Operation Warm: $100k → 10%Impact Guru: $6k → 10%Calvary Home for Children: $3k → 15%Epworth Childrens Home: $60 → 16%Wings of Refuge: $500 → 17%Friends of Disabled Adults and Children Too Inc: $30 → 14%North American Telugu Association Inc: $3k → 11%Operation Warm Inc: $60 → 10%Impact Guru: $4k → 10%City House: $1k → 5%Epworth Childrens Home: $60 → 16%American Red Cross: $51 → 14%Uplift Organization Inc: $10k → 15%Salvation Army Services Inc: $90 → 14%Operation Warm Inc: $60 → 10%Impact Guru: $1k → 10%The Cooperative Ministry: $5k → 16%Uplift Organization Inc: $300 → 15%Operation Warm Inc: $45 → 10%Impact Guru: $1k → 10%Raindrop of Dallas: $1k → 14%Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas: $700 → 14%White Rock Center of Hope: $100 → 14%Zach Hoefler Memorial Trust: $5k → 5%Cornerstone Childrens Ranch: $10k → 5%Kid Net Foundation DBA Jonathans Place: $3k → 14%Metrocrest Services: $25k → 14%4Word: $3k → 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

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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 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.

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Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
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Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
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Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
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The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.

Education
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Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

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Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
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United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc

Uwmd is a community-based social change organization that unites the community to create lasting change. for 100 years, we've brought together passionate change-makers, alongside corporate, civic and nonprofit partners, to strengthen…

Philanthropy
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Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chesterfield Youth Football & Cheer. 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 backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Community Food PantriesCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Mentoring ProgramsPregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Independent K-12 SchoolsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Dance Arts OrganizationsMilitary Veterans SupportSchool District FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterYouth Development CentersLgbtq+ Community SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyYmca Youth Development
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/165
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,400

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.

03the grantee network

144 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. 144 of the 184 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)
142/144
Grantees still filing
104/144
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $35,619 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRuths Cottage and The Patticake House — $25,000 · OtherRuths Cottage and The Patticake HouseFriends of the Grenada Area Chamber of Commerce — $23,000 · OtherFriends of the Grenada Area Chamber of CommerceNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $16,910 · OtherFoundation for Excellence FFE — $15,000 · OtherBROTHER CHARLIES RESCUE CENTER INC — $15,000 · Other+104 more — $232,740 · Other+104 moreOperation Warm Inc — $100,165 · Human ServicesOperation Warm IncMETROCREST SERVICES — $25,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICESIMPACT GURU INC — $24,899 · Human ServicesIMPACT GURU INCUPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC — $10,300 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE CHILDRENS RANCH INC — $10,000 · Human Services+18 more — $27,455 · Human Services+18 moreSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC — $49,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsFOR THE LOVE OF THE LAKE FOUNDATION — $2,080 · Recreation & Sports+4 more — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsJOSIAH WHITE'S QUAKERDALE FOUNDATION — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL — $22,605 · Youth Development+3 more — $2,600 · Youth DevelopmentISHA FOUNDATION INC — $15,634 · EducationCLIFFORD H TED REES JR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationTHE IVY CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC — $5,000 · EducationHEBRON BAND BOOSTER CLUB — $2,525 · EducationHeathwood Hall Episcopal School — $2,000 · Education+15 more — $7,091 · EducationTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER — $25,000 · Community ImprovementMARSHALLTOWN CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT INC — $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $150 · Community ImprovementAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,621 · HealthARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $3,388 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INC — $1,662 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,150 · Health+10 more — $1,760 · Health
Other$363,269Human Services$197,819Recreation & Sports$56,580Youth Development$52,705Education$47,250Community Improvement$35,150Health$27,581

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOperation Warm Inc — $100,165 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC — $49,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOSIAH WHITE'S QUAKERDALE FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL — $22,605 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $16,910 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISHA FOUNDATION INC — $15,634 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER CHARLIES RESCUE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCLIFFORD H TED REES JR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetUPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC — $10,300 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,210 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARSHALLTOWN CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCORNERSTONE CHILDRENS RANCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONSPRING INC — $9,756 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTELANGANA PEOPLES ASSOCIATION OF DALLAS — $6,296 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC — $5,060 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK TIE DINNER INC — $5,045 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Cooperative Ministry — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARSHALLTOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-YWCA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIBHA INC AKA HELP THEM GROW — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMS MAIN EVENT — $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetZach Hoefler Memorial Trust — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,621 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCor Swimming Association — $3,720 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $3,388 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Telugu Association — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget4WORD — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS — $2,708 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEBRON BAND BOOSTER CLUB — $2,525 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC — $2,515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLES IMPACT NETWORK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAKANKSHA EDUCATION FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS DBA BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG THOUGHT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHogar De La Promesa — $2,100 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOR THE LOVE OF THE LAKE FOUNDATION — $2,080 over 1y, 3.3% 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.

Texas Instruments Fou…Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationHillcrest FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…United Way of Metropo…McKesson Foundation I…The Addy FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Textron Charitable Tr…The Hoglund Foundation
Texas Instruments FoundationTX42.5× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Addy Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Hoglund 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 LII Lennox 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
33report 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to LII Lennox Foundation?

Find your warmest path to LII Lennox 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 184 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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