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Belin 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.

$373k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$590kInternational$108kReligion$98kArts & Culture$35kHealth$25kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$25k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $193k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$80,000
THE WOODLANDS METHODIST SCHOOL$50,000
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY$40,000
MISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON$32,901
LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL$30,000
HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
CALVARY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC$20,000
TEXAS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES FOUNDATION$15,000
THE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF GREATER HOUSTON$10,000
CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION$10,000
US PASTORS COUNCIL$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $39k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $24k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$772k · 12 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
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Total granted

$772k
$24k

Still filing today

83%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

  • HC
    HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $118k · revenue +45%
  • The Brookwood Community Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $118k · revenue +96%
  • Living Water International
    4× · 2020–2024 · $108k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CA
    COLDSPRING AREA LIBRARY
    one grant, 2020 · $24k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Houston Graduate School of Theology

Equip women and men to be ministers and messengers of God's mission of reconciliation through academic excellence, personal transformation, and leadership development.

2
Lubbock Christian University

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.

Education
3
The Woodlands Christian Academy

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…

4
Taylor University

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.

Education
5
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
6
Hardin-Simmons University

The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.

Education
7
East Texas Baptist University

East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…

Education
8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
10
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
11
LeTourneau University

Letourneau university is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work,…

Education
12
Howard Payne University

Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Libraries & Archives of Tx Dba Texas Library & Archives Foundation. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $117,621 · OtherHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYTHE WOODLANDS METHODIST SCHOOL — $98,788 · OtherTHE WOODLANDS METHODIST SCHOOLMISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON — $78,187 · OtherMISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTONCONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL — $75,000 · OtherCONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLTHE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF GREATER HOUSTON — $25,000 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF GREATER HOUSTONCOLDSPRING AREA LIBRARY — $23,833 · OtherCOLDSPRING AREA LIBRARYCALVARY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · OtherThe Brookwood Community Inc — $117,621 · EducationThe Brookwood Community IncBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $80,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS — $57,622 · EducationYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWST…Friends of Libraries & Archives of TX DBA Texas Library & Archives Foundation — $35,000 · EducationFriends of Libraries & Archives of T…Living Water International — $107,621 · Human ServicesLiving Water …STAR OF HOPE MISSION — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · HealthCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION — $10,000 · ReligionUS Pastor Council — $10,000 · Religion
Other$438,429Education$290,243Human Services$107,621Housing & Shelter$25,000Health$25,000Religion$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $117,621 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc — $117,621 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLiving Water International — $107,621 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON — $78,187 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS — $57,622 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Libraries & Archives of TX DBA Texas Library & Archives Foundation — $35,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Belin 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Belin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Belin Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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