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Brentwood 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $645k
- $250k+1 grant · $477k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $477,000 |
| THE HUMAN IMPACT | $235,000 |
| VICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FND | $210,000 |
| THE BRANCH CHURCH | $200,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| CAMPUS MINISTRIES OF HARVEST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $40,000 |
| FULL GOSPEL TEMPLE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CHANGE A LIFE MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| FAR & WISE | $10,000 |
| THE BUCKET MINISTRIES | $9,000 |
| UPWORDS | $7,500 |
| OSCAR ROAN MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $5,200 |
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 (FY17–25, $711k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- THTHE HUMAN IMPACT9× · 2017–2025 · $468k · revenue ×21
Southern Methodist University6× · 2017–2025 · $313k · revenue +57%- HFHope For Life7× · 2018–2025 · $116k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- VMVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +57%
- THTIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +112%
- LCLEONARD CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
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.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
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.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Human Impact and the most unlike its peers is St Margarets House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 119 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 ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN IMPACT ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds Hope For Life ↗
- Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds CHANGE A LIFE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIVING HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Bucket Ministry ↗
- Who funds Oscar Roan Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Ryans Reach ↗
- Who funds UPWORDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds FARWISE INC ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant 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 Brentwood 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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