· Private foundation
The Monty Miller Living Legacy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAVIGATORS | $110,000 |
| WRENCH IT FORWARD | $70,000 |
| TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH | $55,000 |
| LIVING STONE CHURCH | $51,000 |
| PAULS PROJECT | $14,000 |
| NEW HOPE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $10,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM IN JESUS MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| THE FORGE | $7,500 |
| BACKYARD MISSION | $6,250 |
| THE PARENTING COTTAGE | $6,100 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $5,000 |
| APOSTOLOS | $5,000 |
| LUBBOCK CHILDRENS HOME | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $378k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
35 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TGTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH5× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +59%
- GCGRACE CAMPUS5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +61%
- TPTHE PARENTING COTTAGE4× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TCTHE COMM FNDN OF WTone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To provide help, healing and hope in the name of jesus christ.
Our mission is to cultivate community, opportunity, and restoration with people experiencing poverty, homelessness, and sex trafficking.
We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…
Ministry that turns men from addiction to Jesus Christ by daily engaging them in spiritual, physical and financial guidance and goals
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
We take in homeless men and train them in life skills and skilled labor. we provide transportation, housing, and living expenses for the men until they are able to find permanent work and housing.
The purpose of the organization is to construct decent, affordable housing for low to moderate income families, and to show the love of jesus christ through action in the lubbock, texas area.
Community outreach and church services
the purpose is to Preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world, and help those who are struggling. we are an outreach to flea markets, and a transition home.
Housing the homeless
Community outreach
Transitional living for recovered addicts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lubbock Dream Center and the most unlike its peers is High Point Village 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.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 45 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 WRENCH IT FORWARD ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds GRACE CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTING COTTAGE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MALTA FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLOS ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Freedom in Jesus Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LOVE THE HUB INC ↗
- Who funds NICKS DIFFERENTLY AWESOME OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD MISSION ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of West Texas · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Matthew 633 Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Ch Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Monty Miller Living Legacy 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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