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Cios
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $280,000 |
| TMS GLOBAL | $275,000 |
| FAITH COMES BY HEARING | $250,000 |
| MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD | $250,000 |
| DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $240,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $220,000 |
| MISSION ARLINGTON | $180,000 |
| CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY | $170,000 |
| OPEN TABLE | $170,000 |
| ONE BY ONE MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| HUNGRY SOULS | $145,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $120,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF JACKSON HOLE | $120,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
48 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k 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
- DBDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +28%
- ACAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +8%
Samford University4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +32%
Funded once
- GUGalveston Urban Ministriesone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -54%
- TBTEXAS BAPTIST MISSIONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $194k
- BFBAPTIST FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE FOR EQUIPPINGone grant, 2024 · $150k
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.
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.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 73 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 DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Galveston Urban Ministries ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Kids Hope USA ↗
- Who funds EvanTell Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE BY ONE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds A Christian Ministry in the National Parks ↗
- Who funds SOWER'S FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
- Who funds Student Ministries Essentials Inc ↗
- Who funds CS Lewis Institute ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE ↗
- Who funds Baptist Women In Ministry Inc ↗
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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Christian Mission Concerns · Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Christian Mission Concerns of Tenne Piper Jr · Tyndale House Ministries · 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 Cios 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.
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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