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A Better Neighborhood Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

A Better Neighborhood Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$33kHuman Services$16kInternational$10kReligion$4kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$295k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT BELONG$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,510
CHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONAL$3,000
THE DALLAS FOUNDATION$2,500
INTERFAITH SERVICES$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
FROM WITHIN COUNSELING$1,500
MEN OF NEHEMIAH$1,500
RENEWAL MINISTRIES$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $2k → 14%ANGEL ARMIES INC: $2k → 4%FROM WITHIN COUNSELING: $2k → 14%PROJECT BELONG: $5k → 7%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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 5 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$48k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+368%

Still filing today

40%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • OE
    OAKHURST ELEMENTARY PTO
    2× · 2018–2020 · $22k
  • OE
    OAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
    3× · 2021–2023 · $12k
  • CC
    CHILD CARE ASSOCIATES
    2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +368%
  • FO
    FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +33%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christian Mens Network

CMN works to stop fatherlessness, child abuse, and human trafficking by equipping and training men and pastors in a global movement that for over 40 years has restored families and built churches.

Religion
2
Men of Nehemiah Families Inc

Offer counseling services for families impacted by addiction.

Human Services
3
Selah International Counseling Ministries

The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.

Health
4
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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5
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
6
His Story Coaching and Counseling

Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.

Human Services
7
Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation

The Ministry exists to restore Christ to counseling and counseling to the church by thinking biblically about the issues of living. The Ministry does this through teaching, speaking, counseling, and writing.

Human Services
8
Commission to Every Nation

To advance the gospel of jesus christ to every nation through pastoral care and missionary support.

Religion
9
The Urban Alternative

The Urban Alternative is a Christian Ministry that seeks to equip, empower, and unite Christians to impact individuals, families, churches, and communities for the rebuilding of lives from the inside out.

Religion
10
The Forge Initiative

The Forge Initiative Inc. intends to create a social support structure for men by providing counseling and life coaching services and facilitating character- and relationship-building from a Christian-theistic perspective.

Health
11
Every Generation Ministries Inc

Every generation minstries is an international, interdenominational, christian organization which ministers together with local churches to develop effective ministry to children and families. the organization strives to equip overseas…

Religion
12
Truth in Nature Inc

Organization purpose and vision-founded in 2009, truth in nature is a georgia corporation and an authorized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. we seek to provide our participants pathways for spiritual growth and maturity through outdoor…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Men of Nehemiah Inc; the most unlike its peers is From Within Counseling Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAKHURST ELEMENTARY PTO: $21,603 · OtherOAKHURST ELEMENTARY PTOOAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $11,700 · OtherOAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTOCHILD CARE ASSOCIATES: $6,250 · OtherCHILD CARE ASSOCIATESIndividual grant recipient: $4,510 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBE EMBOLDENED: $4,000 · OtherBE EMBOLDENEDCHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONALINTERFAITH SERVICES: $2,500 · Other+1 more: $1,500 · OtherProject Belong VA: $5,000 · Human ServicesProject Belong…FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesFOR OTHERS COL…FROM WITHIN COUNSELING INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesFROM WITHIN CO…MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIA…CHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $4,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S…INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $3,000 · InternationalINTERNATIO…THE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyRENEWAL MINISTRIES: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$55,063Human Services$10,000International$7,000Philanthropy$2,500Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILD CARE ASSOCIATES: $6,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Belong VA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFROM WITHIN COUNSELING INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENEWAL MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Dallas FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Dallas FoundationTX13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Better Neighborhood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Better Neighborhood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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