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Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation at a glance

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Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Recreation & Sports$124kReligion$114kPublic Safety & Disaster$53kHuman Services$51kHealth$25kYouth Development$16kEducation$14kInternational$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
$3,167
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOUNDED WARRIOR$20,000
ST PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH$11,843
AUSTIN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION$10,000
BELLVILLE VOLUTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$6,000
KOLBE HOUSE$6,000
DIOCESAN SERVICES FUND$4,000
BELLVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISCTRICT$3,167
BERNARDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$3,000
COLUMBUS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$3,000
HOA INC (MEALS ON WHEELS)$3,000
CAT SPRINGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$3,000
UNBOUND - CFCA$720
ST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL$600
BOY SCOUT TROOP 36$400
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNBOUND - CFCA: $720 → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 15%UNBOUND - CFCA: $360 → 16%UNBOUND - CFCA: $360 → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 15%UNBOUND - CFCA: $360 → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 15%UNBOUND - CFCA: $360 → 16%UNBOUND - CFCA: $360 → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 15%UNBOUND - CFCA: $360 → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
SD
IN
NJ
CT
VA
MD
KS
TN
TX
FL
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.
$368k · 29 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
18

Total granted

$368k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+0%

Still filing today

45%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AC
    AUSTIN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +116%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +30%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE INDEPENDENCE FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • KO
    KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • FA
    FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +6%
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
Industry Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department for rural community centered in industry, tx

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2
Frelsburg Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation
Human Services
4
Tolar Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department organized to contain fires in and around the city of tolar, county of hood, texas

Human Services
5
Feeding the Lone Star Llc

Uniting volunteers to prepare meals that get delivered to the food insecure

Food & Nutrition
6
Nocona Rural Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.

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7
Matador Motley County Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting and prevention

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Melvin Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Garrison Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Tulsa Firefighters Benevolence Fund

Provide relief to family members due to death, injury, or illness.

Philanthropy
11
Hankamer Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Hartley Volunteer Fire Dept & Ems

Multi-texas city and county fire department and ambulance service

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 100 Club Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lone Star Lions Eye Bank. 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

20 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. 20 of the 50 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $54,323 · OtherST PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCHSTS PETER & PAUL PARISH: $45,870 · OtherSTS PETER & PAUL PARISHWOUNDED WARRIOR: $20,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIORTHE INDEPENDENCE FUND: $16,000 · OtherTHE INDEPENDENCE FUNDFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCBELLVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISCTRICT: $14,484 · OtherBELLVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISCTRICTKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: $10,000 · OtherBELLVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $9,583 · OtherKOLBE HOUSE: $9,000 · Other+30 more: $68,661 · Other+30 moreAUSTIN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $65,514 · Recreation & SportsAUSTIN COUNTY FAI…Warrior Benefit: $55,000 · PhilanthropyWarrior Benefi…BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $22,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN: $4,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMEALS ON WHEELS: $5,500 · Human ServicesUnbound: $2,880 · Human ServicesBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,000 · HealthTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthChristian New Creation Inc: $6,000 · Crime & LegalTHE 100 CLUB INC: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$262,921Recreation & Sports$65,514Philanthropy$55,000Public Safety & Disaster$26,000Human Services$8,380Health$8,000Crime & Legal$7,000

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 budgetAUSTIN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $65,514 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWarrior Benefit: $55,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetBELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $22,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristian New Creation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $5,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBERNARDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $4,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUnbound: $2,880 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBELLVILLE BRAHMA BOOSTER CLUB: $2,788 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONE STAR LIONS EYE BANK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIO COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Legion: $429 over 2y, 0.0% 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 AUSTIN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Warrior Benefit ↗
  • Who funds BELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds Christian New Creation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds BERNARDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds CAT SPRING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN ↗
  • Who funds Unbound ↗
  • Who funds BELLVILLE BRAHMA BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LONE STAR LIONS EYE BANK ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE 100 CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS LIONS CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Commu…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · 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 Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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
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.

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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home