· Private foundation
Mary Lou Lemon 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 $10k7 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELECTED OFFICIALS TO PROTECT AMERICA | $20,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $15,000 |
| THE PVBLIC FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| VOICE EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| PHILLIPS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| THE PEACE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE OPEN ARMS | $7,000 |
| OKLAHOMA COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY | $5,600 |
| NATIONAL CITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY PLACE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| KGOU | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE | $3,000 |
| CHASE YOUR DREAM YOUTH SPORTS | $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 (FY24–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +19% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- COCHURCH OF THE OPEN ARMS6× · 2018–2024 · $179k
- VEVOICE Education Fund5× · 2018–2024 · $27k · revenue -51%
- UPUNIVERSITY PLACE CHRISTIAN CHURCH2× · 2021–2024 · $21k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $31k
- BRBIOGAS RESEARCHERS INCone grant, 2018 · $20k
- DADONA ANA VILLAGE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Partnership for Participatory International Policy coordinates opportunities for elected officials, staff and community leaders to learn from people impacted by US foreign policies and practices. We do this by organizing delegations to…
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…
We build communities of impact to solve global challenges.
Legal voice was founded on the belief that all women, girls, and lgbtq+ people should be able to live their lives with dignity, safety, and autonomy. we advance justice and build community power by using multiple strategies: litigation,…
Project DIVA International is here to ensure girls' needs are met. We exist to guide girls to self-discover towards results - to think, find alignment with their truth, and financially successful.
Powerful Voices mission is to create brave spaces with BIPOC girls & gender expansive youth to take charge of their own power as leaders, igniting their abilities to confidently express themselves, build community, and act against…
Pil amplifies the stories the world needs now. through their speakers bureau film impact work, they connect peoples desire for change with opportunities for dialogue action. pil harnesses the power of storytelling by women, trans nonbinary…
Vital voices global partnership's mission is to identify, invest in and bring visibility to extraordinary women around the world by unleashing their leadership potential to transform lives and accelerate peace and prosperity in their…
The Pipeline Fund is working toward a reflective democracy where skilled, diverse, community leaders are fully supported to run for office, run campaigns, and advance progressive policies that address the urgent needs of all Americans.
Voca generates critical dialogue and interdisciplinary programming to address the production, presentation, and preservation of contemporary art.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Pops Orchestra. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 37 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 VOICE Education Fund ↗
- Who funds DONA ANA VILLAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds Congressional Chorus ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds PVBLIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COULD YOU ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ Victory Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION AND RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALLY'S LIST ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Mary Lou Lemon 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.
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.
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