Does Marion and Cadell S Liedtke Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Marion and Cadell S Liedtke Family Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scharbauer Foundation Inc, Abell-Hanger Foundation, Permian Basin Area Foundation.

Marion and Cadell S Liedtke Family Charitable Foundation

Marion and Cadell S Liedtke Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Marion and Cadell S Liedtke Family Charitable Foundation

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.

$21k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$182kEducation$152kEnvironment$51kHuman Services$35kArts & Culture$28kRecreation & Sports$27kReligion$18kAnimals$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$986k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY TO CHILDREN'S MEDICAL	$5,868
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	$5,000
YOUNG LIFE DALLAS METRO	$3,000
MISSION AGAPE	$2,500
MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$1,500
WHITNEY CHURCH OF CHRIST	$1,000
THE PETROLEUM MUSEUM	$1,000
SIBLEY NATURE CENTER	$500
ASHFORD RISE SCHOOL OF DALLAS	$250
THE KINKAID SCHOOL	$250

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$406k · 26 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$406k

$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+37%

Still filing today

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther

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

MC
MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +93%
TK
The Kinkaid School Inc
7× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +87%
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
7× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +21%

Funded once

CF
CAMPAIGN FOR PBBHC
one grant, 2024 · $25k
IF
INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +13%
WT
WEST TEXAS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC
one grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%

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.

Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture

Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment

Lone Star Flight Museum

Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.

Arts & Culture

Texas Foundation for Educational Advancement Inc dba the Da Vinci School

School's mission is to help establish basic skills through teaching methods that enhance a child's joy in learning, ability to learn, and interest in learning while fostering the child's self-confidence.

Education

Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education

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

Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education

Midland School Corporation

Midland school provides a distinctive co-educational boarding school experience to a diverse student body in grades 9-12. through study and work, midland teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity,…

Education

Permian Basin Petroleum Museum Library and Hall of Fame

We will share the petroleum and energy story and its impact on our lives.

Arts & Culture

Scott & White Healthcare Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health

Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to mobilize community support and resources for the academic improvement of the Mountain Brook City School System through technological improvement, library enhancement, and professional development.

Education

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas; the most unlike its peers is Wppk Parents Club 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

29 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. 29 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/29

Grantees still filing

23/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$257,060Education$144,600Environment$44,875Arts & Culture$21,100Human Services$20,500Food & Nutrition$16,500Housing & Shelter$15,000

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

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.

Scharbauer Foundation IncTX30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Beal Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Walter & Jere Hubbard Family Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Paul and Katherine Morrow Family Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · The Henry 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 Marion and Cadell S Liedtke Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marion and Cadell S Liedtke Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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