· Private foundation
The Lc and Mary Worley Memorial Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $349k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COACHES OUTREACH | $135,000 |
| GREGORY MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BUCKNER MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| WISEMAN MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| HODOS INSTITUTE | $45,000 |
| PINE COVE | $35,000 |
| HEARTISANS | $25,000 |
| HWY 80 RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| NEWGATE MISSION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S JOB CORP | $20,000 |
| TEXANS ON MISSION | $18,315 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| JEWS FOR JESUS | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of your 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 +46% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- COCOACHES OUTREACH8× · 2018–2025 · $955k · revenue +46%
- H8HIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $435k · revenue +51%
- WMWISEMAN MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- COCoaches Outreach Ministryone grant, 2017 · $100k
- PCPine Cove Christian Centerone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BBGCTone grant, 2018 · $30k
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.
Pastor training
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
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Training pastors in third world countries
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To reach lost people with the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coaches Outreach and the most unlike its peers is Greentree Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 93 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 COACHES OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds HIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds WISEMAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HODOS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PASTORS HOPE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORP ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION-SLAVIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
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: East Texas Communities Foundation · Sadler Family Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Rosa May Griffin Foundation · American Gift Fund · The Crain Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community 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 Lc and Mary Worley Memorial 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.