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Lindsey & May Tape Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Lindsey & May Tape Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Lindsey & May Tape Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $15k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| OAKBEND MEDICAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF VINCE | $1,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| HOMELESS PET PLACEMENT LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| NERY'S PROMISE LLC | $1,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY | $100 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +41%
- LOLUNCHES OF LOVE3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +5%
- NPNerys Promise5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +308%
Funded once
- FBFort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +12%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +115%
- RSREINING STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIPone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +13%
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.
We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…
Fort bend family health center, inc. is dedicated to excellence in providing integrated health care services to improve the quality of life in the communities it serves. accesshealth will enable to achieve a personal state of wellness…
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
To provide shelter, meals, and comprehensive support to families without homes.
To provide homeless families with children the tools necessary to achieve long term financial, parental, and personal self-sufficiency through a comprehensive program of temporary housing, case management, and supportive services.
To transform community wellness through literacy, health, spiritual and wellness programs
Christian organization serving under-resourced families including single parents, refugees, and immigrants by providing spiritual and financial assistance.
Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston and the most unlike its peers is Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUNCHES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds Nerys Promise ↗
- Who funds LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Homeless Pet Placement League ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM ↗
- Who funds EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Pride Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds REINING STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE ↗
- Who funds Blessed Be Hope for Three 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 Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · The George Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Fort Bend Junior Service League · Madison Charitable Foundation Inc · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Gulf Coast Medical Foundation · Odyssey Outreach · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Lindsey & May Tape 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.