· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Orangefield ISD | $6,000 |
| Orange Co Comm Partners for Children | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 30% of Nelda C and H J Lutcher Stark Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 85%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 98 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · Ross H and Eva J Smith Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nelda C and H J Lutcher Stark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nelda C and H J Lutcher Stark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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