· Private foundation
Lydick Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $29,500 |
| SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH | $21,500 |
| COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES | $2,500 |
| DAN COLEMAN MEMORIAL FUND | $2,000 |
| BRANCH TO HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| CHRIST CHAPEL BIBLE CHURCH | $2,000 |
| CAJUN NAVY RELIEF | $1,500 |
| MINISTRY CATALYSTS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| HEALTH TREE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE MISSION | $1,000 |
| FIRST LIBERTY MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| URBAN ALTERNATIVE | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
63 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 33 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- DTDallas Theological Seminary8× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +81%
- COCOACHES OUTREACH8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +46%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- RARIVERTREE ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +55%
- GSGRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGYone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -29%
- PPVBC-MISSIONARIESone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
International Biblical Training is a teaching, training and equipping religious ministry. IBT staff provide theological teaching and training for the purpose of making Christian disciples who in turn train and disciple others in…
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coaches Outreach and the most unlike its peers is Share Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 — 5% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 82 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 Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds COACHES OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds NEWBORNS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OVERSEAS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds BRANCH TO HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Houston Christian Broadcasters Inc ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY CATALYSTS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DR PEPPER MUSEUM AND FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HealthTree Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Urban Alternative ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Dallas Seminary Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vjs Charitable Private Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas 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 Lydick 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.