Texas · Nonprofit
LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION
LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,870 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($401,129). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Fort Bend Junior Service Leagueshared funderslocal
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio match
- Sidney and Charline Dauphin Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $122k → $117k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 61% · 2019 73% · 2020 40% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
77% of LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fort Bend Junior Service Leagueshared funderslocalTX · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sidney and Charline Dauphin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Southwest Louisianaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Willis-Knighton Medical Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Round It Up America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frazier Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hendrick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ch Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 28 organizations near you
- United Way of Greater Houstonshared fundersTX · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION?
- LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,870 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($401,129). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $882,870 in grants to LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION?
- THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $401,129 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing