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Amazing Grace Life

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.

$940k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.5MReligion$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MInternational$1.1MEducation$788kHousing & Shelter$286kFood & Nutrition$215kPublic Safety & Disaster$200kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $564k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $311k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$554k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE$61,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
PINE COVE$50,000
FRIENDS OF SKY RANCH$50,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$50,000
PROJECT HANDUP$50,000
INSPIRED VISION COMPASSION CENTER$40,000
OPERATION CARE$39,000
WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL$35,000
YOUNG LIFE$31,000
REFUGE CITY$30,000
EL MONTECITO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$30,000
YOUTH LIFE WEST DALLAS$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CHILDRENS HUNGER FUND$25,000
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 (FY18–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOUSE OF CHERITH: $28k → 13%HOUSE OF CHERITH: $18k → 13%OPERATION CARE: $120k → 14%OPERATION CARE: $67k → 14%OPERATION CARE: $60k → 14%OPERATION CARE: $50k → 14%OPERATION CARE: $48k → 14%OPERATION CARE: $40k → 14%OPERATION CARE: $36k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $30k → 14%REFUGE CITY: $40k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $26k → 14%REFUGE CITY: $39k → 14%BEHIND EVERY DOOR: $25k → 14%REFUGE CITY: $36k → 14%REFUGE CITY: $30k → 14%REFUGE CITY: $20k → 14%OUR CALLING: $53k → 14%OUR CALLING: $50k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $30k → 14%OUR CALLING: $30k → 14%OUR CALLING: $25k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $20k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $20k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $20k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $20k → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $15k → 14%ASSIST THE OFFICER: $15k → 14%OPERATION CARE: $39k → 14%THE HUMAN IMPACT: $25k → 14%THE HUMAN IMPACT: $15k → 14%THE HUMAN IMPACT: $15k → 14%LIFE SAVERS FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%LIFE SAVERS FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%LIFE SAVERS FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%LIFE SAVERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%FELLOWSHIP OF FATHERS FOUNDATION: $91k → 14%FELLOWSHIP OF FATHERS FOUNDATION: $39k → 14%FELLOWSHIP OF FATHERS FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%FELLOWSHIP OF FATHERS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%DELIVER FUND: $46k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $33k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $32k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $27k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $23k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
OR
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 76 repeat orgs$501k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

76 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
58

Total granted

$7.6M
$358k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+20%

Still filing today

58%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • YB
    YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $700k · revenue +66%
  • WD
    WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $373k · revenue +61%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $315k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • BE
    BONTON ENTERPRISESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +535%
  • ID
    IMAGINE DALLAS INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
  • AI
    ANSWERS IN GENESIS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +75%
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
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
2
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over seventy countries around the world.

International
3
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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4
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
5
Life International

To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.

Health
6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
Redeem International

Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.

International
8
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
9
Far Reaching Ministries

Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…

International
10
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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11
What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
12
UnBound North Texas

Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Christian Vision North America. 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

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 143 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/78
Grantees still filing
55/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SKY RANCH FOUNDATION: $331,445 · OtherSKY RANCH FOUNDATIONPINE COVE INC: $275,000 · OtherPINE COVE INCINSPIRED VISION COMPASSION CENTER: $230,000 · OtherINSPIRED VISION COMPASSION CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $198,679 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $190,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $185,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION: $171,100 · OtherTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATIONFOOD FOR THE SOUL: $135,750 · OtherDALLAS LIFE INC: $127,500 · OtherYOUTH WITH A MISSION: $125,000 · OtherCRU: $122,700 · Other+78 more: $1,102,614 · Other+78 moreOPERATION CARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $460,402 · Human ServicesOPERATION CARE INTERNATIONA…BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $228,700 · Human ServicesBUCKNER INTERNATIONALFELLOWSHIP OF FATHERS FOUNDATION: $186,925 · Human ServicesFELLOWSHIP OF FATHERS FOUND…REFUGE CITY: $164,500 · Human ServicesREFUGE CITYOURCALLING INC: $157,500 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INCMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $145,445 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIAH INCLIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $145,000 · Human ServicesLIFESAVERS FOUNDATIONBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $96,600 · Human ServicesTHE HUMAN IMPACT: $75,000 · Human Services+13 more: $296,164 · Human Services+13 moreYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $699,800 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH BELIEVING IN…YOUNG LIFE: $229,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFERIVERTREE ACADEMY: $161,115 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERTREE ACADEMYMERCY STREET: $107,500 · Youth DevelopmentMERCY STREETFRIENDS OF SKY RANCH INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF SKY RAN…+1 more: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $315,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S …KIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $207,575 · ReligionKIDS ACROSS …THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC: $177,044 · ReligionTHE POCKET T…Kanakuk Ministries: $69,900 · ReligionKanakuk Mini…East-West Ministries International: $42,000 · Religion+7 more: $103,500 · Religion+7 moreWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $373,000 · EducationBONTON ENTERPRISES: $90,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationOrphan Outreach: $35,000 · InternationalThe Bucket Ministry: $29,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND: $25,000 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $21,899 · InternationalREBECCA BENDER INITIATIVE: $5,000 · InternationalSEED EFFECT: $5,000 · International+2 more: $1,250 · InternationalREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterEMILY'S PLACE INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,194,788Human Services$1,956,236Youth Development$1,299,915Religion$915,019Education$463,500International$122,149Housing & Shelter$105,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $699,800 over 8y, 19% of budgetOPERATION CARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $460,402 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $373,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $315,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $229,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $228,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $207,575 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF FATHERS FOUNDATION: $186,925 over 6y, 12% of budgetTHE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC: $177,044 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION: $171,100 over 6y, 82% of budgetREFUGE CITY: $164,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $161,115 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $157,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $145,445 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetLIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $127,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetMERCY STREET: $107,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF SKY RANCH INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC: $96,600 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBONTON ENTERPRISES: $90,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $75,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE HUMAN IMPACT: $75,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetKanakuk Ministries: $69,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD: $65,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAssist the Officer Inc: $63,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetHouse of Cherith Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDeliverFund: $50,750 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $43,132 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $40,182 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetOrphan Outreach: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS ACADEMY 4: $32,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetONE805 INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Bucket Ministry: $29,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTO THE EAST CONSULTANTS: $22,500 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $21,899 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED: $18,100 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAMAZON REVIVAL ON THE RIVER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION RECOVERY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMILY'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE J A Y C FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT COMPASS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEVERY ORPHANS HOPE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION CARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SKY RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF FATHERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds REFUGE CITY ↗
  • Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
  • Who funds MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY STREET ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SKY RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BONTON ENTERPRISES ↗
  • Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMAN IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds Kanakuk Ministries ↗
  • Who funds CARRY THE LOAD ↗
  • Who funds Assist the Officer Inc ↗
  • Who funds House of Cherith Inc ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Christian Community F…The Rees-Jones Founda…Community Foundation …The Dallas FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…Servant FoundationPrairie Creek Partner…The Moody FoundationDenman Family Foundat…Breunig Family Founda…Capital for Kids
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX45× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Denman Family Foundation · Breunig Family Foundation · Capital for Kids

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 Amazing Grace Life funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amazing Grace Life. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Amazing Grace Life?

    Find your warmest path to Amazing Grace Life through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 143 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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