· Private foundation
Belin Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF GREATER HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| THE WOODLANDS METHODIST SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| CONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| MISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| CALVARY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC | $50,000 |
| PREGNANCY ASSISTANCE CENTER NORTH | $40,000 |
| US PASTORS COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| TEXAS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $158k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $180k · revenue +7%- HCHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +45%
The Brookwood Community Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- CACOLDSPRING AREA LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $24k
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.
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.
Equip women and men to be ministers and messengers of God's mission of reconciliation through academic excellence, personal transformation, and leadership development.
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…
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.
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.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
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.
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…
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,…
Its purpose is to offer a holistic educational program that will motivate the student to value and achieve academi excellence within the context of commitment to moral and spiritual values.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds MISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Friends of Libraries & Archives of TX DBA Texas Library & Archives Foundation ↗
- Who funds US Pastor Council ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Assistance Center North ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Belin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Belin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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