T. L. L. TEMPLE FOUNDATION. The T. L. L. Temple Foundation was established in 1962 by Georgia Temple Munz in honor of her father, Thomas Lewis Latané Temple,^qv an East Texas lumberman and founder of Southern Pine Lumber Company (later Temple Industriesqv). It is a nonprofit organization operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, primarily in areas of the deep East Texas pine timber belt. The foundation reported assets of over $254 million in 1994 with an income of over $15 million. In 1994, 121 grants totaling $13,372,424 were made. Major grants were in support of community improvement, health and medicine, education, and human services.

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