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LykesKnapp Family Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$213k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$268kReligion$191kRecreation & Sports$133kYouth Development$131kArts & Culture$122kEducation$114kHealth$40kFood & Nutrition$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASATCH ACADEMY$50,000
CAMP CHIPPEWA FOUNDATION$30,000
PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY$17,000
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL$15,000
YELLOWSTONE FOREVER$12,500
STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREP$10,000
JOHN FAIREY GARDEN CONSERVATION$10,000
GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION$10,000
MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY$10,000
HOUSTON SYMPHONY$10,000
CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON$7,500
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATER$7,500
HOUSTON PARKS BOARD$5,000
A SEATTLE CHURCH$5,000
CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $7k) 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.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $4k → 14%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 16%Friends of The World Food Program: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$862k · 29 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
32

Total granted

$862k
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+20%

Still filing today

72%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CC
    Camp Chippewa Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +43%
  • MP
    Memorial Park Conservancy Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +138%
  • YF
    YELLOWSTONE FOREVER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $53k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • BB
    Buffalo Bayou Partnership Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +257%
  • AB
    Armand Bayou Nature Center Foundation Attention Anne Bike
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -74%
  • SA
    ST AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

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

04Your field

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.

1
The Houston Audubon Society

To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…

Environment
2
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
3
The Houston Parks Board Foundation

The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.

Environment
4
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…

Environment
5
Trinity Park Conservancy

Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…

Community Improvement
6
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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7
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.

Environment
8
Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc

To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.

Community Improvement
9
Bayou Land Conservancy

To preserve land along streams for flood control, clean water, and wildlife in the geographical area that drains into lake houston.

Environment
10
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
11
Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy

The Willow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy ("Willow Waterhole") serves as the leading advocate for public greenspace improvements and nature preservation at the 291-acre Willow Waterhole Greenway. (See Schedule O)Willow Waterhole partners…

Environment
12
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cultural Landscape Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blackwood Educational Land Institute. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Addiction Recovery ServicesCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersChristian Youth CampsLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr10%41%35–55yr13%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr10%35%35–55yr13%17%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,751

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
26/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Christ Church Cathedral Endowment Fund — $95,000 · OtherChrist Church Cathedral Endowment FundTHE BRYAN MUSEUM — $41,000 · OtherTHE BRYAN MUSEUMPECKERWOOD GARDEN FOUNDATION — $32,000 · OtherPECKERWOOD GARDEN FOUNDATIONCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL — $30,500 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRALSt John's Episcopal Church — $25,000 · OtherSt John's Episcopal ChurchJOHN FAIREY GARDEN CONSERVATION — $23,000 · OtherJOHN FAIREY GARDEN CONSERVATIONPRO-VISION INC — $15,000 · Other+30 more — $143,996 · Other+30 moreMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $92,000 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Conservancy IncYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $52,500 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVERGalveston Bay Foundation Inc — $50,000 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation IncWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE — $41,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCEPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY — $22,000 · EnvironmentPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCYHermann Park Conservancy — $21,500 · EnvironmentHermann Park ConservancyBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $12,000 · EnvironmentRiver Oaks Garden Club — $11,500 · Environment+7 more — $29,000 · Environment+7 moreCamp Chippewa Foundation — $113,725 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Chippew…+1 more — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentWASATCH ACADEMY — $50,000 · EducationTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY — $27,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC — $5,000 · EducationGLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $12,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony Society — $10,000 · Arts & CultureContemporary Arts Museum Houston — $7,500 · Arts & CultureTheatre Under the Stars Inc — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,250 · Arts & CultureA Way Out Inc — $25,000 · HealthTHE MENNINGER CLINIC — $9,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $5,500 · HealthTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON — $1,500 · HealthHouston Parks Board — $37,500 · Philanthropy
Other$405,496Environment$331,500Youth Development$116,225Education$82,000Arts & Culture$66,750Health$41,000Philanthropy$37,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCamp Chippewa Foundation — $113,725 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $92,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWASATCH ACADEMY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE — $41,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHouston Parks Board — $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY — $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Way Out Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY — $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $21,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRO-VISION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRiver Oaks Garden Club — $11,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTrees For Houston — $10,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetArmand Bayou Nature Center Foundation Attention Anne Bike — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Symphony Society — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ALTA INC — $8,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAmerican Sustainable Business Council — $7,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetContemporary Arts Museum Houston — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc — $4,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYes ministries — $3,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAOS LAND TRUST — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTheatre Under the Stars Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Sustainable Business Institute Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCENIC TEXAS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …The Elkins FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Vivian L Smith Founda…Strake FoundationAlvin & Lucy Owsley F…John P McGovern Found…Houston Endowment IncThe Prioleau Family F…Shell USA Company Fou…MD Anderson Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX31.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Strake Foundation · Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Prioleau Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · MD Anderson 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 LykesKnapp Family Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to LykesKnapp Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to LykesKnapp Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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