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W Frank Lebus Jr Charitable Tuw at a glance

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W Frank Lebus Jr Charitable Tuw

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.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$114k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.5MHuman Services$275kInternational$239kEducation$180kArts & Culture$136kHealth$27kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $114k
$11,397
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$113,968
CYNTHIANA HARRISON CO PUBLIC$22,794
HARRISON CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$22,794
EBENEZER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$11,397
MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH$11,397
ST JAMES AME CHURCH$11,397
CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL$4,854
USPIRITUS INC$4,854
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC DBA$2,533
RUDDLES MILLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC$2,533
RUDDLES MILLS METHODIST CHURCH$2,533
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC DBA: $57k → 7%CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL: $110k → 9%CYNTHIANAHARRISON CO PUBLIC: $3.0M → 15%USPIRITUS INC: $110k → 15%RUDDLES MILLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $57k → 17%RUDDLES MILLS METHODIST CHURCH: $57k → 18%HARRISON CO EDUCATIONAL: $517k → 15%HARR CO SOC FOR RETARDED CITIZENS: $29k → 17%ST JAMES AME CHURCH: $258k → 15%HARR CO SOC FOR RETARDED CITIZENS: $28k → 17%EBENEZER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $258k → 15%HARR CO SOC FOR RETARDED CITIZENS: $27k → 17%MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH: $258k → 15%HARR CO SOC FOR RETARDED CITIZENS: $25k → 17%CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $201k → 15%CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $178k → 15%CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $176k → 15%CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $168k → 15%CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $156k → 15%CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $114k → 15%CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $108k → 15%CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $63k → 15%CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $60k → 15%HARRISON CO EDUCATIONAL: $40k → 15%CYNTHIANAHARRISON CO PUBLIC: $40k → 15%CYNTHIANA-HARRISON CO PUBLIC LIBRAR: $36k → 15%HARRISON CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $36k → 15%CYNTHIANA-HARRISON CO PUBLIC LIBRAR: $35k → 15%HARRISON CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35k → 15%HARRISON CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $34k → 15%CYNTHIANA-HARRISON CO PUBLIC LIBRAR: $34k → 15%CYNTHIANA-HARRISON CO PUBLIC LIBRAR: $31k → 15%HARRISON CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $31k → 15%CYNTHIANA HARRISON CO PUBLIC: $23k → 15%HARRISON CO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $23k → 15%CYNTHIANA-HARRISON CO PUBLIC LIBRARY: $22k → 15%HARRISON CO EDUCATIONAL: $22k → 15%ST JAMES AME CHURCH: $20k → 15%MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH: $20k → 15%EBENEZER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $20k → 15%EBENEZER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $18k → 15%ST JAMES AME CHURCH: $18k → 15%MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH: $18k → 15%ST JAMES AME CHURCH: $18k → 15%EBENEZER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $18k → 15%MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH: $18k → 15%MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH: $17k → 15%ST JAMES AME CHURCH: $17k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 15 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$7.0M
$29k

Still filing today

20%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2025 · $3.1M
  • CP
    CYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $591k

Funded once

  • CC
    CYNTHIANA-HARRISON CO PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2024 · $22k
  • HC
    HARRISON CO SOCIETY FOR
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $3,117,419 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1,224,580 · OtherCYNTHIANA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $591,332 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JAMES AME CHURCH: $374,939 · OtherST JAMES AME CHURCHMACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH: $374,939 · OtherMACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCHEBENEZER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $374,939 · OtherEBENEZER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH+8 more: $663,559 · Other+8 moreCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $157,671 · InternationalPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $13,575 · InternationalUSPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN): $157,671 · Health
Other$6,721,707International$171,246Health$157,671

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN): $157,671 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $157,671 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $13,575 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
  • Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
  • Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization W Frank Lebus Jr Charitable Tuw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Frank Lebus Jr Charitable Tuw. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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