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Argent Foundation
ARGENT FOUNDATION (the "foundation") is a texas nonprofit corporation focused on aiding charitable organizations to raise the funds necessary to conduct and scale work that is crucial in addressing social and environmental challenges and promoting the welfare of society.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $1,444,832 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,680,184 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $235,352 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $457k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $365k
- $250k+2 grants · $572k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COUNTY LINE BAPTIST CHURCH | $300,000 |
| THE BRIDGE COMMUNITY | $271,900 |
| LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $160,750 |
| MASTER'S RESOURCING COMMISSION | $54,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC | $50,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL INNSTITUTE FOR DETERRENCE | $50,000 |
| WORD OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL CHRUCH | $44,750 |
| ALSAC ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $41,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LA | $34,047 |
| OKLAHOMA COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS | $31,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH RUSTON | $30,100 |
| IFEGES | $27,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LOUISIAN | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LTLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $235k · revenue +25%
- SCSikeston Christian School2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +2%
- OCOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $66k · revenue -3%
Funded once
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +13%
- BRBEAUMONT ROTARY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +62% · 72% of their budget
- HAHARTFIELD ACADEMY INCone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
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To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sikeston Christian School ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis ↗
- Who funds MED-CAMPS OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
- Who funds Fredericksburg Community Health Center ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · AT&T Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Argent Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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