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Christian Mission Concerns at a glance

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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.

$804k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$1.5MInternational$906kHuman Services$492kHousing & Shelter$345kEducation$300kEmployment$92kCrime & Legal$65kYouth Development$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $572k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD$75,000
GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES$50,000
CHURCH UNDER THE BRIDGE$50,000
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD$48,000
CHURCH UNDER THE BRIDGE$36,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TEMPLE TX$30,000
TEXAS BAPTIST MEN$30,000
TEXAS BAPTIST MISSIONS FOUNDATION$25,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF EAST BELL COUNTY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH$25,000
WACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL$25,000
BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL$25,000
CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES$25,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $75k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $75k → 14%Galveston Urban Ministries: $50k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $50k → 14%CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES: $25k → 6%Galveston Urban Ministries: $50k → 14%Helping Hands Ministry of Belton: $10k → 14%CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES: $15k → 6%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $25k → 14%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $2k → 6%FOSTER LOVE BELL COUNTY: $5k → 14%Buckner International: $50k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%Buckner International: $25k → 14%FOSTER LOVE BELL COUNTY: $5k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $23k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%Texas Christian Community Development Network: $21k → 14%The Hangar: $10k → 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

MN
NY
CO
VA
NM
AR
TN
NC
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 54 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
17

Total granted

$4.0M
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+1%

Still filing today

59%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $618k · revenue +278%
  • GU
    Galveston Urban Ministries
    6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +25%
  • BI
    BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $253k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • TC
    Texas Christian Community Development Networkgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +199%
  • TH
    The Hangar
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -11%
  • 2W
    21 WILBERFORCE GLOBAL FREEDOM CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -31%
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.

1
Shalom of Texas Ministries

To reach the texas capitol community for christ

Religion
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Still Water Christian Ministries Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
4
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
5
Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion
6
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch

Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.

Human Services
7
But God Ministries

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…

International
8
His Story Coaching and Counseling

Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.

Human Services
9
West Texas Food Bank

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…

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10
Water By Women

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.

Human Services
11
Texas Reach Out Inc

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

Health
12
Servenow

Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compassion Ministries of Waco; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 79 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
30/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH UNDER THE BRIDGE: $328,000 · OtherCHURCH UNDER THE BRIDGEB H CARROLL THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $150,000 · OtherB H CARROLL THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTECOOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP INC: $116,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP INCLIVING WITNESS BAPTIST CHURCH: $99,000 · OtherLIVING WITNESS BAPTIST CHURCHBaptist Women In Ministry Inc: $80,000 · OtherCaritas: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TEMPLE TX: $69,000 · Other+40 more: $683,500 · Other+40 moreMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $618,000 · ReligionMISSION WACO MISSION WO…GCPN GLOBAL CONNECTION PARTNERSHIP NETWORK: $100,000 · ReligionGCPN GLOBAL CONNECTION …FELLOWSHIP SOUTHWEST: $80,000 · ReligionFELLOWSHIP SOUTHWESTLEGACY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $42,000 · ReligionPsalm68Five Ministries: $30,000 · Religion+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionGalveston Urban Ministries: $325,000 · Human ServicesGalveston Urban Min…BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $252,500 · Human ServicesBUCKNER INTERNATION…MEALS ON WHEELS WACO: $50,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS WAC…CHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AT HEART M…+6 more: $62,800 · Human Services+6 moreBAYLOR LINE FOUNDATION: $151,000 · EducationBAYLOR LINE…MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $125,000 · EducationMIDDLE EAST…PASTORS FOR TEXAS CHILDREN: $40,000 · EducationPASTORS FOR…BRIDGE EAST TEMPLE FOUNDATION: $37,000 · EducationBRIDGE EAST…Tarkington Community Library Inc: $27,500 · EducationTarkington …OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · Education+1 more: $13,000 · EducationFAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY INC: $225,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PR…WACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $105,000 · Housing & ShelterWACO HABI…+1 more: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES: $65,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS FOR LIFE: $30,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · Health
Other$1,670,500Religion$880,000Human Services$730,300Education$414,500Housing & Shelter$340,000Crime & Legal$65,000Health$58,500

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 budgetMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $618,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetGalveston Urban Ministries: $325,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $252,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY INC: $225,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetBAYLOR LINE FOUNDATION: $151,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $125,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $105,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetGCPN GLOBAL CONNECTION PARTNERSHIP NETWORK: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBaptist Women In Ministry Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP SOUTHWEST: $80,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetGREATER WACO LEGAL SERVICES: $65,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WACO: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLEGACY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $42,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetPASTORS FOR TEXAS CHILDREN: $40,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCHILDREN AT HEART MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE EAST TEMPLE FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetFree Guitars 4 Kids: $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS FOR LIFE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPsalm68Five Ministries: $30,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Christian Community Development Network: $21,300 over 1y, 13% of budgetOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRestoration Development Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSALADO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP EAST TEXAS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 39% of budgetThe Hangar: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetFOSTER LOVE BELL COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budget21 WILBERFORCE GLOBAL FREEDOM CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDirection613: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Hoops for Hope: $5,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRestoration Ranch Texas TX: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBoys2Men of God dba Children of the KING Ministries: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetRed River Community House Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Waco FoundationMagnolia FoundationUnited Way of Waco-Mc…CiosCooper FoundationEula Mae and John Bau…Texas Instruments Fou…Oe Blume Jr FoundationPaul & Jane Meyer Fam…Bernard & Audre Rapop…Baylor UniversityCarl C Anderson Sr an…
Waco FoundationTX19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mission Concerns funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian Mission Concerns. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Mission Concerns?

Find your warmest path to Christian Mission Concerns 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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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