How much does Cios give?

Cios reported 37 grants totaling $4,233,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 40 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Education (24%), Human Services (18%).

Who are Cios's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Dallas Baptist University ($1.6M), Baptist General Convention of Texas ($1.3M), Agape Child and Family Services Inc ($1.3M).

Does Cios fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Cios accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cios?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Christian Mission Concerns, Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation.

Foundation Dossiers

Wyoming · Private foundation

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.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 37
Grants FY2025: 37
Organizations funded FY2024: 24%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $280,000
Organizations funded a year: 32 to 40; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 16
Total assets, FY2025: $109M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Cios funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	35	$3.9M	14%
FY2024	37	$4.5M	24%
FY2023	39	$5.6M	21%
FY2022	40	$4.9M	40%
FY2021	32	$4.3M	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$8.7MEducation$5.9MHuman Services$4.4MInternational$2.3MPhilanthropy$747kHealth$690kRecreation & Sports$340kFood & Nutrition$320kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Dallas Baptist University	$1,640,000	5	0%
Baptist General Convention of Texas	$1,307,164	2	n/a
Agape Child and Family Services Inc	$1,285,000	5	3%
Tms Global Inc	$1,150,000	4	n/a
Samford University	$1,066,667	4	0%
B H Carroll Theological Institute	$862,000	4	n/a
Open Table Inc	$795,000	4	26%
Asbury Theological Seminary	$765,000	3	1%
Mission Arlington Inc	$660,000	5	n/a
Middle East Bible Outreach	$550,000	5	3%

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All grantees of Cios by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Dallas Baptist University	$1,640,000	5	0%
Baptist General Convention of Texas	$1,307,164	2	n/a
Agape Child and Family Services Inc	$1,285,000	5	3%
Tms Global Inc	$1,150,000	4	n/a
Samford University	$1,066,667	4	0%
B H Carroll Theological Institute	$862,000	4	n/a
Open Table Inc	$795,000	4	26%
Asbury Theological Seminary	$765,000	3	1%
Mission Arlington Inc	$660,000	5	n/a
Middle East Bible Outreach	$550,000	5	3%
Galveston Urban Ministries	$500,000	1	22%
Mission Waco Mission World Inc	$500,000	2	2%
Buckner International	$500,000	2	1%
Kids Hope USA	$435,000	5	9%
EvanTell Inc	$425,000	4	9%
One by One Ministries	$391,650	4	21%
Honorhealth Foundation	$370,000	4	0%
Judson College	$350,000	2	23%
Fuller Theological Seminary	$350,000	2	0%
A Christian Ministry in the National Parks	$320,000	4	10%
Sower's Field Inc	$300,000	5	35%
Campbellsville University Inc	$290,000	2	0%
Student Ministries Essentials Inc	$286,800	4	69%
CS Lewis Institute	$275,000	4	4%
YOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE	$270,000	5	23%
Baptist Women In Ministry Inc	$210,000	4	29%
Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole	$195,000	4	n/a
Grand Teton National Park Foundation	$167,000	3	1%
Foster Village Inc	$150,000	1	11%
Arrabon Inc	$150,000	2	7%
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Inc	$150,000	1	n/a
East Texas Baptist University	$150,000	1	0%
Hill Country Daily Bread	$150,000	3	1%
Pfeiffer University	$150,000	2	0%
Hungry Souls	$145,000	1	17%
Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services	$140,000	1	0%
Denison Ministries	$130,000	5	n/a
Desert Hills Presbyterian Church	$130,000	4	n/a
Hardin-Simmons University	$102,500	2	0%
Oak Grove Christian Ministries	$100,000	1	n/a
Banner Health Foundation	$100,000	1	0%
Agros International	$90,000	3	1%
World Methodist Evangelism Inc	$75,000	2	6%
Fellowship Associates	$50,000	1	n/a
St John's Health Foundation	$40,000	1	1%
Families Matter Inc	$37,500	1	7%
Hole Food Rescue	$25,000	1	2%
The Burke Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Nathaniel's Hope Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Christian Latina Leadership Institute	$20,000	1	16%
National Christian Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.

Cios supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN20.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Cios

How much does Cios give?: Cios reported 37 grants totaling $4,233,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 40 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Cios fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Education (24%), Human Services (18%).
Who are Cios's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Dallas Baptist University ($1.6M), Baptist General Convention of Texas ($1.3M), Agape Child and Family Services Inc ($1.3M).
Does Cios fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cios accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cios?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Christian Mission Concerns, Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation.
Where is Cios based?: Cios is based in WY.