· Private foundation
Carole & Gene Chambers 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER | $5,000 |
| PREGNANCY HELP CENTER W HOUSTON- ADIRA CLINIC | $5,000 |
| EYES ON ME INC | $5,000 |
| ALPHA PRISON MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| ELIJAH RISING | $3,000 |
| VINDEX MEDIA- THE WHITE ROSE RESISTANCE | $2,500 |
| PRESTONWOOD PREGNANCY CENTER | $2,500 |
| PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA - CAMP HOPE | $2,500 |
| YMCA OF THE ROCKIES - MISSION 623 | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| HIS BRIDGEBUILDERS | $2,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $1,300 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GRIME ANDERSON VOL FIRE DEPT | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of Carole & Gene Chambers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 63%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HPHOPE PREGNANCY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +85%
- EOEyes On Me Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +197%
- FCFreedom Church Alliance7× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
- EHENGAGE HOPE MINISTRYone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Church planting and leadership training.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Evangelizing the lost through gospel crusades, camps and conferences; Empowering orphans and widows and those in need through Christ-centered vocational training; and Equipping ministers of the gospel through Christian seminars and…
Freed Life exists to eradicate human trafficking through empowering survivors, equipping communities and changing systems.
Love Life is uniting and mobilizing the church to create a culture of love and life that will bring an end to abortion and the orphan crisis.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
Save a life international helps women in crisis; including crisis pregnancies, domestic violence, post-abortion depression and other types of hardships. they provide education and bring awareness to young people about the importance of…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 38 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 HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Eyes On Me Inc ↗
- Who funds Freedom Church Alliance ↗
- Who funds HIS BRIDGEBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Elijah Rising ↗
- Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE SOURCE FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds FREE THE CAPTIVES ↗
- Who funds SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE ↗
- Who funds 1000 HILLS MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PRISON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds VINDEX MEDIA ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVED IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · More Than The Move Foundation DBA Hope Legacy Collective · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carole & Gene Chambers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carole & Gene Chambers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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