· Private foundation
Christian Mission Concerns
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $572k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD | $75,000 |
| CHURCH UNDER THE BRIDGE | $50,000 |
| GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD | $48,000 |
| CHURCH UNDER THE BRIDGE | $36,000 |
| TEXAS BAPTIST MEN | $30,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TEMPLE TX | $30,000 |
| TEXAS BAPTIST MISSIONS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF EAST BELL COUNTY | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH | $25,000 |
| WACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $670k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $618k · revenue +278%- GUGalveston Urban Ministries6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +25%
- BIBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL6× · 2020–2025 · $253k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- TCTexas Christian Community Development Networkgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +199%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +1%- 2W21 WILBERFORCE GLOBAL FREEDOM CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -31%
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.
To reach the texas capitol community for christ
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To offer Kingdom partners a holy and unforgettable experience at our Texas Hill Country retreat and camp facility highlighting the still waters of God's majestic creation.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
Provide state of the art water filters into the hands of mothers and train them to provide clean water for themselves , their families and others in their communities.
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compassion Ministries of Waco and the most unlike its peers is Boys2Men of God dba Children of the King Ministries. 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.
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 21 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 79 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 MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Galveston Urban Ministries ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR LINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds WACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds GCPN GLOBAL CONNECTION PARTNERSHIP NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Baptist Women In Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds GREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WACO ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PASTORS FOR TEXAS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE EAST TEMPLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Free Guitars 4 Kids ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Psalm68Five Ministries ↗
- Who funds Tarkington Community Library Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Waco Foundation · Magnolia Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Cios · Cooper Foundation · Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Oe Blume Jr Foundation · Paul & Jane Meyer Family Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Baylor University · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson 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 Mission Concerns 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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