· Private foundation
Lockheed Martin Employee Charity Fund
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of LOCKHEED MARTIN EMPLOYEE CHARITY FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k31 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $38,709 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS TARRANT COUNTY | $35,000 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| GRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITIES | $17,998 |
| OUCHITA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER AUX | $10,000 |
| IMPACT LUFKIN | $9,330 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DEEP EAST | $9,330 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ANGELINA | $9,330 |
| FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $9,330 |
| KURTH MEMORIAL ANIMAL SHELTER | $9,330 |
| HAROLD'S HOUSE EAST TEXAS ALLIANCE | $9,330 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION OF LUFKIN | $9,330 |
| EAST TEXAS CANCER ALLIANCE | $9,330 |
| DETACHMENT MARINE CORP LEAGUE | $9,330 |
| CHRISTIAN SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $7,555 |
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 (FY17–23, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% 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.
37 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2023 · $486k · revenue +105%
- GPGRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITES INC6× · 2017–2023 · $148k · revenue +10%
- BTBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $58k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- BTBRIGHTER TOMORROWS SHELTERone grant, 2021 · $18k
- VMVNA MEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- DODefenders of Freedomgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +34%
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.
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…
Empowers older and disabled adults to live independentlly in thier own homes by providing nutritious home-delivered meals, safety checks, socialization, and community connection, which result in an enhanced quality of life and purpose as…
Los alamos visiting nurse service, inc. is dedicated to maintaining delivery of the highest quality of home care and hospice service to the residents of los alamos county and the northern new mexico service area.
To nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living.
To provide caring and comprehensive health and supporting services, linking people experiencing homelessness to individual/collective solutions and to be a leader in creating service delivery models and solutions to homelessness.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…
Mesilla valley community of hope is a daytime service center for homeless people. it provides programs and intensive case management. it operates several housing programs to meet the people's emergency, transitional and permanent housing…
The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.
Amarillo area casa advocates for abused and neglected children through support and training of court appointed volunteers
Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Challenge Unlimited Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christian Sports Association. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 116 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 NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITES INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARGUERITE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
- Who funds TABLE OF PLENTY IN CHELMSFORD INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Impact Lufkin ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico · Celanese Foundation · America's Charities · Binns Family Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Bonnie Korlick Private Charitable Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · The Saab Family Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · We Share A Common Thread 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 Lockheed Martin Employee Charity Fund 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.
- Lowell Association for the Blind Inc — 49% of income from government
- House of Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
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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