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Christian Brothers Automotive Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2022
143
Grants FY2022
19
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Recreation & Sports$923kHuman Services$481kReligion$427kInternational$365kYouth Development$278kHealth$181kHousing & Shelter$132kEducation$95kOther$0
02FY2022 · 143 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 143 grants below total $1,744,767 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,554,366 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $809,599 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k99 grants · $360k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $535k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$5,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
For M Camper and Retreats$375,000
T for M Camper and Retreats$375,000
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$50,000
Open Door Mission$50,000
Village Joye Ministries$41,851
Dressed for Success Houston$40,000
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$25,000
Open Door Mission$25,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Brazoria County$25,000
Lucy Legacy Foundation Inc$22,000
Shelter North West$16,000
Family Point Resources$14,000
Purdue 53$13,000
The Center for Pursuing Hope$13,000
Galveston Island Humane Society$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 (FY21–21, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GRACE LIKE RAIN: $15k → 8%HOPE'S PATH: $15k → 9%ONRAMP INC: $8k → 22%THE SPRING SHELTER INC: $15k → 15%OVERLAND MISSIONS: $25k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $3k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $360 → 15%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $13k → 9%BRIDGE OF HOPE GREATER DENVER: $10k → 7%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 13%FINISHING THE WORK INC: $5k → 11%HOPE'S PATH: $5k → 9%BLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING & RESPITE: $8k → 8%THE RYAN FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%THE LANDING: $5k → 16%HOPE IMPACTS: $10k → 16%HOPE IMPACTS: $2k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $50k → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 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.

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Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
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Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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Freedom House Ministries

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…

Education
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Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
Health
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Transform Ministries
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Texas Reach Out Inc

Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.

Health
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Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
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Compassion Ministries
Religion
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Come to Him Ministries

To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…

Health
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Christian Harvest International Min

To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.

Religion
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Child Hope International

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.

Arts & Culture
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Sower of Seeds International Ministries

SOS provides assistance to poor and marginalized people in the USA & other countries. SOS feeds the hungry, drills water wells, contributes to schools and operates an orphanage. SOS also rescues and rehabilitates victims of sex trafficking.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission and the most unlike its peers is Tyler Milliken Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyElementary Literacy TutoringFood Banks and PantriesSchool District FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsDomestic Violence ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsChristian Youth CampsCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%1%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%38%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr10%15%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%23%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr13%11%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/214
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,590

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.

04the grantee network

101 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. 101 of the 248 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
100/101
Grantees still filing
65/101
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

T for M Camper and Retreats — $755,000 · OtherT for M Camper and RetreatsREFUGEE RISING — $163,000 · OtherREFUGEE RISINGOpen Door Mission — $80,000 · Other+137 more — $1,361,412 · Other+137 moreDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON — $50,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR…Open Door Mission — $50,000 · Human ServicesOpen Door…OVERLAND MISSIONS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesOVERLAND …HOPES PATH — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPES PAT…THE SPRING SHELTER INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRIN…GIVING GRACE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesGIVING GR…GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES — $12,847 · Human ServicesHOPE IMPACTS — $12,200 · Human ServicesSCARLET ROPE PROJECT — $10,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF HOPE GREATER DENVER — $10,000 · Human Services+11 more — $57,700 · Human Services+11 moreYOUNG LIFE — $72,750 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTAR ROCK MINISTRIES — $32,000 · Youth DevelopmentDISCOVERY YOUTH FOUNDATION — $27,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $4,400 · Youth DevelopmentNew Life Advance International Inc — $76,000 · InternationalALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC — $20,000 · InternationalHIS VOICE INC HIS VOICE GLOBAL — $20,000 · InternationalSERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $12,000 · InternationalSTEPS FOR LIFE — $10,000 · InternationalEVERY VILLAGE — $7,500 · International+2 more — $6,500 · InternationalPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $30,000 · ReligionDAVAR PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · ReligionBack 2 Back Ministries Inc — $10,000 · ReligionPursuit 53 — $6,000 · ReligionSoutheast Gwinnett Cooperative Ministry Inc — $5,000 · ReligionCHRISTIAN FAMILY LIFE INC — $5,000 · ReligionN4 INC — $5,000 · ReligionTRULY FED MINISTRIES — $5,000 · ReligionPARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $4,700 · ReligionHope and Healing Center & Institute — $4,000 · ReligionTeen Challenge of Mississippi Inc — $4,000 · ReligionABBA HOMES & MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 · HealthHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · HealthNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $10,000 · HealthFHGR INC — $10,000 · HealthOUTREACH CENTER OF WEST HOUSTON INC — $7,500 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital — $5,000 · HealthHOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE — $4,000 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC — $4,000 · Health+1 more — $2,200 · HealthTREES OF HOPE — $13,000 · Housing & ShelterSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $12,500 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSERVOLUTION NETWORK INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTARRANT COUNTY SAMARITAN HOUSING INC — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterGRACE PLACE MINISTRY INC — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,359,412Human Services$277,747Youth Development$186,150International$152,000Religion$88,700Health$67,700Housing & Shelter$58,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREFUGEE RISING — $163,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetNew Life Advance International Inc — $76,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $72,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOpen Door Mission — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSTAR ROCK MINISTRIES — $32,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY YOUTH FOUNDATION — $27,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetOVERLAND MISSIONS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAMI GREATER HOUSTON — $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE ARBOR SCHOOL — $21,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPES PATH — $20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHIS VOICE INC HIS VOICE GLOBAL — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetABBA HOMES & MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE SPRING SHELTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIVING GRACE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTREES OF HOPE — $13,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGREENHOUSE MINISTRIES — $12,847 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE IMPACTS — $12,200 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetKATY CARES INC — $12,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $12,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGOOD NEWS EVANGELISTIC FELLOWSHIP INC — $10,600 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSECOR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCROSS TRAIL OUTFITTERS OF TEXAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSCARLET ROPE PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSTEPS FOR LIFE — $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCenter for Christian Growth Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSERVOLUTION NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE GREATER DENVER — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWarrior Benefit — $10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALPENA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDAVAR PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFHGR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTECHFORCE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBack 2 Back Ministries Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RYAN FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTARRANT COUNTY SAMARITAN HOUSING INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Baxter Trust Co Priva…Hildebrand FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The Methodist HospitalGreater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationThe Medallion Foundat…Shell USA Company Fou…More Than The Move Fo…The Junior League of …Halliburton Charitabl…
Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation ServicesTX26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Hildebrand Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Methodist Hospital · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Medallion Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · More Than The Move Foundation DBA Hope Legacy Collective · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Halliburton Charitable 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 Christian Brothers Automotive 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Christian Brothers Automotive Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Christian Brothers Automotive 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 248 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $6.3M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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