· Private foundation
Rachel Lyman Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $297k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $441k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $120,326 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC | $80,217 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $80,217 |
| HIGH SKY CHILDREN'S RANCH INC | $80,217 |
| WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH | $80,217 |
| ST LUKE'S HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER | $48,131 |
| HOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC | $40,109 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY | $40,109 |
| CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $40,109 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS | $40,109 |
| MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $35,655 |
| THE GLADNEY FUND | $22,462 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $16,846 |
| ALLISON CANCER CENTER | $13,952 |
| SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND | $8,824 |
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 (FY18–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
37 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH7× · 2018–2025 · $853k · revenue +49%
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC7× · 2018–2025 · $569k · revenue +81%- WTWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH7× · 2018–2025 · $569k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- SLST LUKES EPISCOPAL HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $41k
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.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
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…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Luke's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National Federation of the Blind. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 40 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY FUND ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Scott & White Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION ↗
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: Pevehouse Family Foundation · Blankinship 1991 Foundation Inc · Walter & Jere Hubbard Family Foundation · Chaparral Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Warren Charitable Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Potts and Sibley 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 Rachel Lyman Charitable Trust 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.
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
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.