· Private foundation
The L & M Charitable Foundation Inc
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 $10k12 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER | $72,500 |
| SCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDREN | $62,500 |
| DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARD | $55,000 |
| JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY | $22,000 |
| NOLS FUND | $20,000 |
| THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE GIRLS SCHOOL OF AUSTIN | $15,000 |
| HILLCREST SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| WATERSHED SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| COOK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
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, $513k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
60 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- JAJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $299k · revenue +14%
- SESEED EFFECT7× · 2017–2023 · $220k · revenue +409%
- FWFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $208k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SFSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +156%
- WSWALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +109%
- TITARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +42%
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.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
Provide quality education for students from pre school through middle school using the Montessori method of learning and teaching.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
To serve the christian home and church by disciplining students academically and spiritually; helping each student attain a biblical worldview and their full potential as unique and beloved creations of a sovereign god.
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Education of children and youth
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bridge and the most unlike its peers is Allies Haven Animal Rescue. 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.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 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. 57 of the 90 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 JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEED EFFECT ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Greenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC ↗
- Who funds Hillcrest School Inc ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds EVERY AVENUE ↗
- Who funds LEFLORE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MANOR PARK INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: Walter & Jere Hubbard Family Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Warren Charitable Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation · Chaparral Foundation · Yarborough 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 L & M Charitable Foundation Inc 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.