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Barnabas 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE INC | $60,500 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $20,000 |
| FAMILYPOINT RESOURCES | $17,000 |
| VERTICAL MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| DENISON MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| EYES ON ME | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL PARTNERS IN HOPE | $10,000 |
| BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| FAMILY LEGACY MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $6,864 |
| 21 WILBERFORCE GLOBAL FREEDOM CENTER | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON RESPONDS | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of Barnabas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $371k · revenue +57%- DBDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $163k · revenue +39%
- FRFamilyPoint Resources7× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- BGBAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION OF TEXASone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BUBAYLOR UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k
- SMSTUDENT MOBILIZATION INCone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
Provide teaching of the word of god and religious music.
It is the mission of the organization to provide services to disadvantaged and homeless families with children; to reintegrate homeless families with children into permanent housing and employment.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
To provide essential and next-step services to restore hope and help end homelessness in houston.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Blessing Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Houston Responds. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 56 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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FamilyPoint Resources ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds VERTICAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Eyes On Me Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds 21 WILBERFORCE GLOBAL FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PARTNERS IN HOPE ↗
- Who funds Free Indeed Community Works CDC ↗
- Who funds Houston Responds ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST'S HOPE AND RECONCILIATION MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BELONG BAKERY ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF MCLENNAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds AS OUR OWN NFP ↗
- Who funds RMH OF AKRONINC ↗
- Who funds CAMP BLESSING TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CAMPS FOR SPECIAL KIDS ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Waco Foundation · Stoller Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Celanese Foundation
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 Barnabas 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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