Texas · Public charity
Council for Life
To empower women, men and youth to make life affirming choices. Motivated by christ-like love & responsive compassion, cfl is committed to raising public awareness of the complex issues that surround unplanned pregnancies & providing support to agencies that share our mission.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $58,710
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $106,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Council for Life funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $2.2M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $1.7M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $1.1M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $977k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $768k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $646k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $743k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Equipped to Succeed | $524,836 | 8 | 7% |
| Dallas Life Inc | $469,780 | 9 | 3% |
| Catholic Crisis Pregnancy Center of Dallas | $427,915 | 8 | 18% |
| Real Options | $417,796 | 7 | 6% |
| Pregnancy Resource Center of Lake Ray Hubbard Area | $361,600 | 8 | 11% |
| Prestonwood Caring People Network | $353,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Young Life | $325,393 | 6 | 0% |
| Pregnancy Help 4u Inc | $317,689 | 7 | 9% |
| The Catholic Pro-Life Community Inc | $308,090 | 7 | n/a |
| Mid-Cities Pregnancy Care Inc | $272,000 | 4 | 5% |
Show all 58 grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($790k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Council for Life supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Mission Pre-Born Inc · Vitamin Angel Alliance Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Thomas Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Hike for Life Inc · Servant Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc
How this is measured
About Council for Life
- How much does Council for Life give?
- Council for Life reported 39 grants totaling $2,238,619 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Council for Life fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Human Services (19%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Council for Life's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth Equipped to Succeed ($525k), Dallas Life Inc ($470k), Catholic Crisis Pregnancy Center of Dallas ($428k).
- Does Council for Life fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Council for Life?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Mission Pre-Born Inc, Vitamin Angel Alliance Inc.
- Where is Council for Life based?
- Council for Life is based in TX.
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