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The Lanward 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of The Lanward Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to El Paso Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Lanward Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $27k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION -- ANEICA AZAR FUND | $5,000 |
| EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - GENERAL FUND | $5,000 |
| EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION -- LANWARD FOUNDATION FUND | $5,000 |
| INFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| DAVID LEE TEX HILL COMPOSITE SQUADRON TX-43 CIVIL AIR PATROL | $3,500 |
| DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $500 |
| PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST | $495 |
| ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $300 |
| UNIVERSITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70 |
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 (FY17–19, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +74% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TBTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE3× · 2019–2021 · $37k · revenue +27%
- RGRIO GRANDE CANCER FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +80%
- EPEL PASO BAPTIST CLINIC3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- PDPASO DEL NORTE CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +82%
- PDPASO DEL NORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- COCHURCH OF SAINT CLEMENTone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Engage in the highest quality independent production, publication and or distribution of orginial news and or news-based materials of community value to far west texas, southern new mexico and northern chihuahua, mexico.
The mission of hospice of el paso, inc. is to provide interdisciplinary care designed to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients and their families who are coping with terminal illness and resulting losses.
Professional association of physicians.
To create a permanent endowment fund to support the el paso museum of art. a portion of the capital appreciation and earnings are distributed annually to the el paso museum of art and used for acquisitions, conservation and preservation,…
The foundation was formed to receive gifts and to invest, manage and distribute such gifts for the benefit of the el paso community college and its students. the foundation promotes education and other related activities of the college.
The mission of el paso chamber of commerce is to support business and our community by providing opportunities for connecting, coaching, advocating, and innovating.
To maintain, design and operate a museum to celebrate the history of el paso high school, el paos, tx.
The purpose of the organization is to develop and facilitate the implementation of goals and programs that will enhance educational opportunities.
The mission of the hispanic chamber of commerce is to continue to be the pre-eminent resource for business and leading advocate in supporting the growth of the el paso border metroplex.
The el paso veterinary medical association is dedicated to the advancement of animal health. epvma promotes advancement of the veterinary profession and well being of its members. epvma's mission is to increase public awareness about…
El paso human services, inc. (ephsi), a private non-profit multi-purpose organization, has been providing social services in el paso county since 1984. ephsi has extensive experience in developing, implementing and executing federal, state…
To inspire, inform and educate our viewer through quality educational programming; while producing superb local programs tailored to our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Paso Center for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dutch Sheets Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 47 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 TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIO GRANDE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL PASO BAPTIST CLINIC ↗
- Who funds INFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF EL PASO ↗
- Who funds TOM LEA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds PASO DEL NORTE CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND FAMILY VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds KINGS KIDS EL PASO INC C/0 R H POFAHL ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EL PASO CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANS CLUB OF EL PASO TEXAS ↗
- Who funds St Mary's University ↗
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: El Paso Community Foundation · Paso del Norte Community Foundation · Paso del Norte Health Foundation · The Shiloff Family Foundation · Feinberg Foundation · The Stewart Family Charitable Foundation Marlene Stewart Trustee · Wilma Donohue Moleen Foundation Xxxxx7003 · Alternative House Inc · Larry & Norma Price Family Charitable Foundation · Hervey Foundation · The Hunt Family Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc
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 Lanward 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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