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Martin J & Denise D Landon Family Foundation at a glance

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Martin J & Denise D Landon 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.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$128kEducation$37kRecreation & Sports$14kReligion$5kFood & Nutrition$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$78k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$17,500
MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES$10,000
TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM$7,500
BENEDICTINE COLLEGE$5,000
SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION$2,500
BRIGHTON CENTER$200
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM: $8k → 16%BENEDICTINE COLLEGE: $5k → 15%TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM: $8k → 16%BENEDICTINE COLLEGE: $200 → 15%ST PETER PRINCE OF THE APOSTLES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $3k → 16%BENEDICTINE COLLEGE: $200 → 15%ST PETER PRINCE OF THE APOSTLES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2k → 16%BENEDICTINE COLLEGE: $200 → 15%ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%BRIGHTON CENTER: $200 → 16%REY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $18k → 16%TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2k → 16%TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 16%TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $950 → 16%SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $250 → 16%BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%AUGUST HEART: $5k → 16%AUGUST HEART: $4k → 16%AUGUST HEART: $4k → 16%CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AT CASTLE HILLS: $500 → 16%KIDS 4 KIDS WITH CANCER: $500 → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION: $11k → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK: $10k → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK: $5k → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK: $5k → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK: $5k → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK: $5k → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK: $5k → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION: $3k → 16%MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $22k → 16%MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $8k → 16%MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $4k → 16%TEXAS BLOOD AND TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$194k · 10 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$194k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+56%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
EducationHealthReligionScience & TechRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MR
    MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +2%
  • TB
    THE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +12%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TB
    TEXAS BLOOD AND TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SM
    St Mary's Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +25%
  • K4
    KIDS 4 KIDS WITH CANCER
    one grant, 2019 · $500
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
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
2
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
3
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
4
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

—
5
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Biola University Inc

Biola university is a private christian university located in southern california. for over 116 years, biola has stood out as an institution grounded on biblically centered education, intentional spiritual development, and career…

Education
8
Southwest Baptist University

Christ-centered, caring academic community preparing students to be servant leaders in a global society; a higher-education institution offering courses that lead to both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education
9
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
10
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
11
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
12
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. 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

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $59,700 · ReligionMISSION ROAD MINISTRIESTHE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $31,000 · HealthTHE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTE…AUGUSTHEART: $12,000 · HealthAUGUSTHEARTTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $4,100 · HealthTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARC…Individual grant recipient: $35,325 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…TEXAS BLOOD AND TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTEXAS BLOOD AND TISSUE C…ST PETER PRINCE OF THE APOSTLES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $4,500 · OtherST PETER PRINCE OF THE A…+3 more: $1,850 · OtherREY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationREY FEO SCHOLARSHI…SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN UNIVE…Benedictine College: $5,600 · EducationBenedictine Colleg…+2 more: $700 · EducationTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM: $15,500 · Science & TechSAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC: $13,500 · Recreation & SportsLas Trampas School Inc: $500 · Human Services
Religion$59,700Health$47,100Other$46,675Education$36,300Science & Tech$15,500Recreation & Sports$13,500Human Services$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $59,700 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetREY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM: $15,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTHEART: $12,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBenedictine College: $5,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $4,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's University: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLas Trampas School Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN SCHOOL AT CASTLE HILLS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTON CENTER: $200 over 1y, 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.

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.

Mays Family FoundationSan Antonio Area Foun…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Greater Houston Commu…Joan and Herb Kellehe…The Jesse H and Susan…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Faye L & William L Co…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Mays Family FoundationTX17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mays Family Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation · The Jesse H and Susan R Oppenheimer Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Martin J & Denise D Landon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin J & Denise D Landon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 18 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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