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Christian Brothers Automotive Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.1M
Granted FY2023
132
Grants FY2023
19
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$923kHuman Services$481kReligion$427kInternational$365kYouth Development$278kHealth$181kHousing & Shelter$132kEducation$95kOther$0
02FY2023 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 132 grants below total $3,609,475, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,065,392 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,455,917 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k48 grants · $177k
  • $10k–50k69 grants · $930k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Two Thirds Ministries$450,000
Two Thirds Ministries$400,000
Center for Bayright Foundation$250,000
Dress for Success Houston$200,000
T Bar M Camps and Retreats$187,500
T Bar M Camps and Retreats$187,500
T Bar M Camps and Retreats$187,500
Eyes On Me Inc$125,000
His Father's Heart Ministries$125,000
Star Rock Ministries$120,000
Open Door Mission$60,000
Eyes On Me Inc$60,000
College of Biblical Studies - Houston$50,000
Joy in the Cause$50,000
Amira$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
OR
NV
IA
OH
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$477k · 12 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 94 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
236

Total granted

$477k
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+21%

Still filing today

83%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesReligionInternationalHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SR
    STAR ROCK MINISTRIES
    2× · 2021–2023 · $156k · revenue +62%
  • KC
    KATY CARES INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $72k · revenue +251% · 30% of their budget
  • OVERLAND MISSIONS INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TF
    T for M Camper and Retreats
    one grant, 2022 · $755k
  • RR
    REFUGEE RISING
    one grant, 2021 · $163k · revenue -4% · 47% of their budget
  • OD
    Open Door Mission
    one grant, 2022 · $80k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
2
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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3
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
4
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
Health
5
Transform Ministries
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6
Texas Reach Out Inc

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

Health
7
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
8
Compassion Ministries
Religion
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Gospel Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 343 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/109
Grantees still filing
71/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Two Thirds Ministries: $850,000 · OtherTwo Thirds MinistriesT for M Camper and Retreats: $755,000 · OtherT for M Camper and RetreatsT Bar M Camps and Retreats: $587,500 · OtherT Bar M Camps and RetreatsCenter for Bayright Foundation: $250,000 · OtherDress for Success Houston: $200,000 · Other+157 more: $2,826,612 · Other+157 moreSTAR ROCK MINISTRIES: $156,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $72,750 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentDISCOVERY YOUTH FOUNDATION: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $50,000 · Human ServicesOpen Door Mission: $50,000 · Human ServicesOVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesHOPES PATH: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRING SHELTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesGIVING GRACE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesGREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $12,847 · Human ServicesHOPE IMPACTS: $12,200 · Human ServicesSCARLET ROPE PROJECT: $10,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE OF HOPE GREATER DENVER: $10,000 · Human Services+5 more: $34,500 · Human ServicesNew Life Advance International Inc: $76,000 · InternationalSTEPS FOR LIFE: $20,000 · InternationalHIS VOICE INC HIS VOICE GLOBAL: $20,000 · InternationalALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 · InternationalSERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 · InternationalEVERY VILLAGE: $7,500 · InternationalOUTREACH CENTER OF WEST HOUSTON INC: $17,500 · HealthABBA HOMES & MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · HealthHOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE: $14,000 · HealthFamilyPoint Resources: $10,500 · HealthHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · HealthFHGR INC: $10,000 · HealthNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10,000 · HealthKATY CARES INC: $72,000 · Food & NutritionSECOR: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $30,000 · ReligionDAVAR PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · ReligionBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $10,000 · ReligionPursuit 53: $6,000 · Religion
Other$5,469,112Youth Development$305,750Human Services$274,547International$155,500Health$87,000Food & Nutrition$82,000Religion$56,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREFUGEE RISING: $163,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetSTAR ROCK MINISTRIES: $156,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNew Life Advance International Inc: $76,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $72,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATY CARES INC: $72,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Mission: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY YOUTH FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNAMI GREATER HOUSTON: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE ARBOR SCHOOL: $21,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPES PATH: $20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetMIRACLE FARM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPS FOR LIFE: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGOOD NEWS EVANGELISTIC FELLOWSHIP INC: $20,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetHIS VOICE INC HIS VOICE GLOBAL: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTREACH CENTER OF WEST HOUSTON INC: $17,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE SPRING SHELTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetABBA HOMES & MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetGIVING GRACE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE: $14,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 budgetSERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFamilyPoint Resources: $10,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSERVOLUTION NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSCARLET ROPE PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE MEDIA GROUP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECHFORCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAVAR PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFHGR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCenter for Christian Growth Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALPENA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCROSS TRAIL OUTFITTERS OF TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE GREATER DENVER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 REFUGEE RISING ↗
  • Who funds STAR ROCK MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds New Life Advance International Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds KATY CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
  • Who funds OVERLAND MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAMI GREATER HOUSTON ↗

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Christian Brothers Automotive Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian Brothers Automotive Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 343 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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