· Private foundation
Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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: 59% of LONNIE & JAY LISCHKA FAMILY FOUNDATION’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOUNDED WARRIOR | $20,000 |
| ST PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $11,843 |
| AUSTIN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| KOLBE HOUSE | $6,000 |
| BELLVILLE VOLUTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $6,000 |
| DIOCESAN SERVICES FUND | $4,000 |
| BELLVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISCTRICT | $3,167 |
| CAT SPRINGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| COLUMBUS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| HOA INC (MEALS ON WHEELS) | $3,000 |
| BERNARDO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| UNBOUND - CFCA | $720 |
| ST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL | $600 |
| BOY SCOUT TROOP 36 | $400 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- ACAUSTIN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +116%
- BVBELLVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +28%
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TITHE INDEPENDENCE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $16k
- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FAFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +37%
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.
Volunteer fire department for rural community centered in industry, tx
Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.
Volunteer fire department organized to contain fires in and around the city of tolar, county of hood, texas
Uniting volunteers to prepare meals that get delivered to the food insecure
Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.
Fire fighting and prevention
Volunteer fire department
To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
Provide relief to family members due to death, injury, or illness.
Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.
Multi-texas city and county fire department and ambulance service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 100 Club Inc and 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.
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 43 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 — 4% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 50 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 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 TEXAS LIONS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.