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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 FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $223k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
$100,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$109M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$280,000
TMS GLOBAL$275,000
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD$250,000
FAITH COMES BY HEARING$250,000
DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$240,000
WHEATON COLLEGE$220,000
MISSION ARLINGTON$180,000
OPEN TABLE$170,000
CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HUNGRY SOULS: $145k → 10%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $500k → 14%FAMILIES MATTER: $38k → 17%FOSTER VILLAGE: $150k → 10%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME AND SERVICES: $140k → 10%OPEN TABLE: $225k → 11%OPEN TABLE: $200k → 11%OPEN TABLE: $200k → 11%OPEN TABLE: $170k → 11%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $250k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $250k → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
MI
WY
IN
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 48 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
17

Total granted

$21M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+66%

Still filing today

58%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DB
    DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +28%
  • AC
    AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +41%
  • Samford University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • GU
    Galveston Urban Ministries
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -54%
  • TB
    TEXAS BAPTIST MISSIONS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $194k
  • FV
    FOSTER VILLAGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +66%
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
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
2
The King's University

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.

Education
3
Dallas International University

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

Education
4
Faith Baptist Bible College

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.

Education
5
Evangel University

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.

Education
6
Northeastern Seminary

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…

Education
7
Regent University

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.

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8
Houston Christian University

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."

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9
American Baptist Theological Seminary dba American Baptist College

Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.

Education
10
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
11
The Master's University and Seminary

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…

Education
12
The King's University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 73 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
26/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION OF TEXAS: $1,307,164 · OtherBAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION OF TEXASAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,285,000 · OtherAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INCTMS GLOBAL INC: $1,150,000 · OtherTMS GLOBAL INCONE MORE CHILD PROJECT: $1,000,000 · OtherONE MORE CHILD PROJECTB H CARROLL THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $862,000 · OtherB H CARROLL THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTEFAITH COMES BY HEARING: $775,000 · OtherFAITH COMES BY HEARINGMISSION ARLINGTON INC: $660,000 · OtherMISSION ARLINGTON INCIndividual grant recipient: $504,000 · Other+28 more: $4,063,800 · Other+28 moreDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $1,640,000 · EducationDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITYSamford University: $1,066,667 · EducationSamford UniversityWheaton College: $950,000 · EducationWheaton CollegeASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $765,000 · EducationASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $550,000 · EducationMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACHKids Hope USA: $435,000 · EducationKids Hope USAJUDSON COLLEGE: $350,000 · EducationFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $350,000 · EducationCampbellsville University Inc: $290,000 · EducationCS Lewis Institute: $275,000 · Education+4 more: $422,500 · Education+4 moreOPEN TABLE INC: $795,000 · Human ServicesOPEN TABLE…Galveston Urban Ministries: $500,000 · Human ServicesGalveston …BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $500,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER IN…FOSTER VILLAGE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER VIL…HUNGRY SOULS: $145,000 · Human ServicesHUNGRY SOU…PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $140,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERI…+1 more: $37,500 · Human ServicesMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $500,000 · ReligionMISSION W…EvanTell Inc: $425,000 · ReligionEvanTell …A Christian Ministry in the National Parks: $320,000 · ReligionA Christi…SOWER'S FIELD INC: $300,000 · ReligionSOWER'S F…Student Ministries Essentials Inc: $286,800 · ReligionStudent M…Arrabon Inc: $150,000 · ReligionArrabon I…Oak Grove Christian Ministries: $100,000 · ReligionWORLD METHODIST EVANGELISM INC: $75,000 · Religion+1 more: $20,000 · ReligionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $575,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $167,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $370,000 · HealthBanner Health Foundation: $100,000 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation: $40,000 · HealthONE BY ONE MINISTRIES: $391,650 · Crime & Legal
Other$11,606,964Education$7,094,167Human Services$2,267,500Religion$2,176,800Philanthropy$747,000Health$510,000Crime & Legal$391,650

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $1,640,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,285,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetSamford University: $1,066,667 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWheaton College: $950,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC: $795,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $765,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $575,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $550,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetGalveston Urban Ministries: $500,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $500,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKids Hope USA: $435,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetEvanTell Inc: $425,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetONE BY ONE MINISTRIES: $391,650 over 4y, 21% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $370,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUDSON COLLEGE: $350,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $350,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetA Christian Ministry in the National Parks: $320,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetSOWER'S FIELD INC: $300,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $290,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStudent Ministries Essentials Inc: $286,800 over 4y, 69% of budgetCS Lewis Institute: $275,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetYOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE: $270,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetBaptist Women In Ministry Inc: $210,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $167,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFOSTER VILLAGE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetArrabon Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD: $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPFEIFFER UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUNGRY SOULS: $145,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $140,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $102,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAGROS INTERNATIONAL: $90,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD METHODIST EVANGELISM INC: $75,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILIES MATTER INC: $37,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHole Food Rescue: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNathaniel's Hope Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN LATINA LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 1y, 16% 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 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 ↗

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 IncChristian Mission Con…Eula Mae and John Bau…Community Foundation …Christian Community F…Christian Community F…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Communities Foundatio…Christian Mission Con…Tyndale House Ministr…Carl C Anderson Sr an…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 Cios?

    Find your warmest path to Cios 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 73 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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