· Private foundation
Nelda C and H J Lutcher Stark 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 $10k22 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lamar State College - Orange | $100,000 |
| Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc | $35,000 |
| Orange Community Action Association | $15,000 |
| Orange County Sheriff's Office | $10,000 |
| Orange Lions Club Charity Carnival | $9,256 |
| Orangefield ISD | $6,000 |
| Orange Co Comm Partners for Children | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,967 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,298 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,248 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,044 |
| Little Cypress - Mauriceville CISD | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $417k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 92% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of Nelda C and H J Lutcher Stark Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +27% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 9 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- STSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +27%
- UWUNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $179k · revenue +46%
- JRJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program4× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TATRIANGLE AREA NETWORK INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -4%
- OCOrange County Disaster Rebuildone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -81%
- COCity of Orangeone grant, 2017 · $40k
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.
To serve the needs of seniors.
Support Services for the elderly through nutritional assistance
The organizations primary mission is to provide and deliver nutritious meals to eligible persons allowing them to maintain their independence. The agency is generally known as Meals on Wheels.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
Provide home delivered meals and transportation services free of charge
Orange county free clinics mission is to provide primary medical care to citizens of orange county who do not have resources to obtain these basic health care needs.
Senior Care of Orange County operates a licensed adult day health center that provides care to frail adults allowing them to remain at home rather than live in nursing homes. The program is licensed to care for up to 29 adults each day.…
Orange Elderly Services, Inc. is dedicated to providing services to the elderly located in the City of Orange through programs such as Focal Point, Meals on Wheels, recreational activities, health, and informational services.
Ensure individuals in the octorara area in need of supplemental food assistance are able to receive it.
Services to the elderly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange Community Action Association and the most unlike its peers is Orange Lions Club Charity Carnival Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 98 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 Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE AREA NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Orange County Disaster Rebuild ↗
- Who funds ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds ORANGE LIONS CLUB CHARITY CARNIVAL INC ↗
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: Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · Ross H and Eva J Smith Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · 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 Nelda C and H J Lutcher Stark 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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