· Private foundation
The Anne and Edgar Lackner Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE ANNE AND EDGAR LACKNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON APHASIA RECOVERY CENTER | $15,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| THE MENIL COLLECTION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER | $10,000 |
| BAPS | $5,000 |
| DAUGHTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS | $5,000 |
| INDO AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $5,000 |
| LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE OF | $5,000 |
| ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER | $5,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PRERBYTERIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| DAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE | $3,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% 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 +8% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 14 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- HAHouston Aphasia Recovery Center2× · 2023–2024 · $33k · revenue +1%
- TSTHE SEEING EYE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +61%
- DHDAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CDCREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -2%
- EAEMERGENCY AID COALITIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%
- RURICE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Victoria Fine Arts Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
24 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. 24 of the 51 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 Houston Aphasia Recovery Center ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MPS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian School ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds AVDA ↗
- Who funds DAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP H-TOWN ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens For Animal Protection Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY ↗
- Who funds ORAN ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds SUGAR LAND CITY CARE CLUB ↗
- Who funds CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY AID COALITION ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Holly Hall ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Huffington Foundation · The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable 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 The Anne and Edgar Lackner Charitable 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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