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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.

$645k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$1.2MHuman Services$606kRecreation & Sports$472kHealth$337kInternational$220kPhilanthropy$217kHousing & Shelter$188kReligion$166kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

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
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 9%GATEWAY OF GRACE: $25k → 14%CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 19%VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 22%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $500 → 5%CASA DE AMIGOS: $25k → 12%GATEWAY OF GRACE: $20k → 14%CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 19%CASA DE AMIGOS: $25k → 12%INCARNATION HOUSE: $40k → 14%CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 19%CASA DE AMIGOS: $20k → 12%CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 19%CASA DE AMIGOS: $20k → 12%INCARNATION HOUSE: $15k → 14%CASA DE AMIGOS: $15k → 12%INCARNATION HOUSE: $5k → 14%CASA DE AMIGOS: $10k → 12%MANOR PARK: $10k → 12%MANOR PARK: $10k → 12%MANOR PARK: $5k → 12%THE FAMILY PLACE: $20k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $20k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $15k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 14%INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%THE BRIDGE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NY
MA
WY
CT
CO
TN
MS
AL
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 60 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
22

Total granted

$3.6M
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+71%

Still filing today

55%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • JA
    JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $299k · revenue +14%
  • SE
    SEED EFFECT
    7× · 2017–2023 · $220k · revenue +409%
  • FW
    FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $208k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SF
    SUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +156%
  • WS
    WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +109%
  • TI
    TARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduated
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Austin Trinity School

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…

Education
2
Bosque School

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.

Education
3
The Woodlands Christian Academy

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…

4
Trinity Charter School

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…

Education
5
Hill Country Montessori School Inc

Provide quality education for students from pre school through middle school using the Montessori method of learning and teaching.

Education
6
Presbyterian School

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…

Education
7
University Cooperative School

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.

8
Fond Du Lac Christian School Inc

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.

Education
9
St John's School

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…

10
Colleyville Covenant Christian

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.

Education
11
South Shore Charter School

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
12
Fort Worth Academy for the Education of Children and Youth

Education of children and youth

Education

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChristian Youth CampsLocal Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Environmental Conservation …Community College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr10%32%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr13%30%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,746

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
46/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER — $207,500 · OtherGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTERSCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDREN — $197,500 · OtherSCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDRENDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARD — $195,000 · OtherDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOL — $114,000 · OtherALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOLHillcrest School Inc — $100,000 · OtherHillcrest School IncNOLS FUND — $75,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY — $73,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · Other+50 more — $731,000 · Other+50 moreFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $208,000 · EducationFORT WORTH COUNTRY D…WATERSHED SCHOOL INC — $164,500 · EducationWATERSHED SCHOOL INCGreenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy — $160,000 · EducationGreenwood Leflore Ed…COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC — $65,000 · EducationCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNT…UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH — $38,000 · EducationMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Education+5 more — $50,500 · Education+5 moreCHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN — $170,000 · Human ServicesCHEROKEE HOME F…CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC — $115,000 · Human ServicesCASA DE AMIGOS …GATEWAY OF GRACE — $75,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY OF GRAC…The Family Place — $65,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Plac…EVERY AVENUE — $60,000 · Human ServicesEVERY AVENUEMANOR PARK INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $25,000 · Human Services+3 more — $17,500 · Human ServicesJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC — $298,500 · Recreation & SportsJOHN AUST…POOLS FOR KIDS INC — $15,500 · Recreation & SportsPine Island Camp — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $150,000 · HealthCook Children's Medical Center — $63,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $21,000 · HealthHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC — $10,000 · HealthSEED EFFECT — $220,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $10,000 · InternationalPERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION — $135,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,753,000Education$716,000Human Services$552,500Recreation & Sports$334,000Health$244,500International$230,000Philanthropy$135,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC — $298,500 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetSEED EFFECT — $220,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $208,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN — $170,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWATERSHED SCHOOL INC — $164,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetGreenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy — $160,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC — $115,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetHillcrest School Inc — $100,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGATEWAY OF GRACE — $75,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Family Place — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center — $63,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY AVENUE — $60,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH — $38,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY — $32,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMANOR PARK INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES — $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF BOULDER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOOLS FOR KIDS INC — $15,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE BRIDGE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPine Island Camp — $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Girls School of Austin Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL AUSTIN COOPERATIVE SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTPLACE MISSISSIPPI INC — $2,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetALLIES HAVEN ANIMAL RESCUE — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

Walter & Jere Hubbard Family FoundationTX19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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