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· Public charity

Lonestar Legacy

Form 990, part iii, the organization assists children who cannot, through their existing means, obtain the medical, financial or positive guidance necessary to live a productive and rewarding life.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$169kPublic Safety & Disaster$53kRecreation & Sports$53kYouth Development$8k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $79,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $108,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$139k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXSAR INC$15,000
TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC$15,000
SETTLEMENT HOME FOR CHILDREN$15,000
HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN$12,000
FOSTER VILLAGE INC$12,000
FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS$10,000
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 (FY21–25, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC: $15k → 16%CAMP ARANZAZU: $20k → 17%FOSTER VILLAGE INC: $15k → 10%TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC: $15k → 16%FOSTER VILLAGE INC: $12k → 10%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $12k → 10%TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC: $15k → 16%FOSTER VILLAGE INC: $12k → 10%TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC: $13k → 16%FOSTER VILLAGE INC: $10k → 10%TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC: $10k → 16%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $13k → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $12k → 10%FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10k → 10%PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $7k → 10%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$306k · 7 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$306k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+45%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TS
    THE SETTLEMENT CLUB
    5× · 2021–2025 · $83k · revenue +5%
  • TB
    TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +12%
  • FV
    FOSTER VILLAGE INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • CA
    Camp Aranzazu Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +45%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
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
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
3
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
4
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
5
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
6
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
7
Shelter Agencies for Families in East Texas

To provide shelter to abused families.

Human Services
8
Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Heart of Texas

Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights
9
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
10
Family Link Treatment Services Inc

A state of texas licensed foster care-adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Health
11
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
12
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand Home for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Camp Aranzazu Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC: $67,500 · Human ServicesTEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INCFOSTER VILLAGE INC: $49,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER VILLAGE INCFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION: $34,500 · Human ServicesFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATIONCamp Aranzazu Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesCamp Aranzazu IncPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $17,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDRENHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INCTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $82,500 · HealthTHE SETTLEMENT CLUBAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP: $32,500 · Recreation & SportsAUSTIN YMB…FOSTER ANGLES OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $22,500 · OtherFOSTER AN…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TEXAS: $7,500 · OtherBOYS & GI…TEXSAR INC: $15,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Human Services$200,000Health$82,500Recreation & Sports$32,500Other$30,000Public Safety & Disaster$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $82,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC: $67,500 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetFOSTER VILLAGE INC: $49,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION: $34,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP: $32,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $12,000 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Holt Atherton Educati…The Junior League of …Harry E and Eda L Mon…A Glimmer of Hope Fou…Reissa FoundationTopfer Family Foundat…Austin Community Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Holt Atherton Educational FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Holt Atherton Educational Foundation · The Junior League of Austin Inc · Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Tr · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Reissa Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lonestar Legacy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lonestar Legacy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lonestar Legacy?

    Find your warmest path to Lonestar Legacy 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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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