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Lockheed Martin Employee Charity Fund

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$299k
Granted FY2023
36
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$661kHuman Services$385kHousing & Shelter$292kHealth$172kRecreation & Sports$39kYouth Development$27kReligion$24kPublic Benefit$22kOther$0
02FY2023 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k31 grants · $162k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $137k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EAST TEXAS CANCER ALLIANCE$9,330
DETACHMENT MARINE CORP LEAGUE$9,330
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION OF 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
IMPACT LUFKIN$9,330
CHRISTIAN SPORTS ASSOCIATION$7,555
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARGUERITES PLACE: $5k → 7%ZIA THERAPY CENTER: $857 → 20%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $4k → 7%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 11%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $4k → 7%YMCA OF ARLINGTON: $1k → 11%MARGUERITE'S PLACE: $4k → 7%MARGUERITES PLACE: $2k → 7%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM: $7k → 14%MESILLA VALLEY HOSPICE: $1k → 23%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 11%CASA DE PEREGRINOS: $857 → 23%MEALS ON WHEELS: $8k → 11%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS: $10k → 14%THE CALL: $5k → 18%THE CALL: $4k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 37 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
59

Total granted

$1.4M
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+53%

Still filing today

41%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2023 · $486k · revenue +105%
  • GP
    GRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITES INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $148k · revenue +10%
  • BT
    BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $58k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • BT
    BRIGHTER TOMORROWS SHELTER
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • VM
    VNA MEALS ON WHEELS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • DO
    Defenders of Freedomgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +34%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lone Star Casa Inc

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…

Civil Rights
2
Meals On Wheels Ministry Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service Inc

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.

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4
Meals On Wheels and More Inc

To nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living.

Food & Nutrition
5
Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Meals On Wheels of Odessa Inc

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.

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7
Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Mesilla Valley Community of Hope

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…

Human Services
9
Childrens Advocacy Center of Van Zandt County Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Amarillo Area Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Amarillo area casa advocates for abused and neglected children through support and training of court appointed volunteers

Civil Rights
11
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas

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.

Health
12
West Texas Food Bank

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Challenge Unlimited Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $486,209 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKGRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITES INC: $147,998 · OtherGRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITES INCSAFEHAVEN SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $75,000 · OtherSAFEHAVEN SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTYVISITING NURSES ASSOCIATION DALLAS: $43,000 · Other+85 more: $527,101 · Other+85 moreARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER: $148,000 · Housing & ShelterARLINGTON L…HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $22,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF HO…+1 more: $1,027 · Housing & ShelterBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $57,500 · Human ServicesBRIGHTER T…MEALS ON WHEELS: $43,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON W…MARGUERITE'S PLACE INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesMARGUERITE…THE CALL: $15,500 · Human ServicesTHE CALLFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $9,330 · Human ServicesFAMILY CRI…Defenders of Freedom: $7,000 · Human Services+4 more: $3,741 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $50,000 · Food & NutritionTABLE OF PLENTY IN CHELMSFORD INC: $9,600 · Food & NutritionOUACHITA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER: $22,000 · HealthCHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $8,000 · HealthLUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $4,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS: $3,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthCHRISTIAN SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $25,055 · EducationEL PASO EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $1,715 · EducationJUNIOR LEADERSHIP EL PASO: $1,027 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationImpact Lufkin: $9,330 · Community ImprovementTHE HUB OF OUACHITA COUNTY: $4,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $150 · Community Improvement
Other$1,279,308Housing & Shelter$171,027Human Services$154,571Food & Nutrition$59,600Health$37,500Education$28,297Community Improvement$13,980

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $486,209 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetARLINGTON LIFE SHELTER: $148,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGRAND PRAIRIE UNITED CHARITES INC: $147,998 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetBRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $57,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $43,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOUACHITA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARGUERITE'S PLACE INC: $18,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER: $16,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CALL: $15,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTABLE OF PLENTY IN CHELMSFORD INC: $9,600 over 4y, 13% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $9,330 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetImpact Lufkin: $9,330 over 1y, 72% of budgetDefenders of Freedom: $7,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HUB OF OUACHITA COUNTY: $4,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF EL PASO INC: $3,092 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHERISHED K9 ALL BREED RESCUE: $2,065 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLA CASA INC: $2,065 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL PASO EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $1,715 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESILLA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,027 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMESILLA VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $1,027 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEADERSHIP EL PASO: $1,027 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAS CRUCES: $1,026 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARLINGTON-MANSFIELD AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZIA THERAPY CENTER INC: $857 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE PEREGRINOS: $857 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWreaths Across America: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUFKIN INC: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Community Foundation of Southern New MexicoNM17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lockheed Martin Employee Charity Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lockheed Martin Employee Charity Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Lowell Association for the Blind Inc: 49% of income from government
  • House of Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Lockheed Martin Employee Charity Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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