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· Public charity

Council for Life

To empower women, men and youth to make life affirming choices.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$4.8MHuman Services$1.9MYouth Development$992kReligion$496kCivil Rights$424kHousing & Shelter$386kInternational$253kEnvironment$175kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $505k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.7M
$58,710
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Youth Equipped to Succeed$106,000
PREBORN$100,000
MID CITIES WOMENS CENTER$100,000
REAL OPTIONS FOR WOMEN$100,000
Live Action$88,000
CARE NET$80,000
BELLA HOUSE$80,000
Fort Worth Pregnancy Center$75,000
BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY$75,000
PRESTONWOOD PREGNANCY CENTER$73,000
HOPE WOMENS CENTER$71,915
METROPLEX WOMENS CENTER$69,840
THRIVE WOMENS CLINIC$69,000
PREGNANCY HELP4U INC$66,897
STUDENTS FOR LIFE$65,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DEEP ROOTS MINISTRIES: $24k → 5%Foster Love Bell County: $13k → 14%COMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO: $30k → 16%CHRISTIAN HOMES & FAMILY SERV: $26k → 16%PREBORN: $100k → 16%DEEP ROOTS MINISTRIES: $24k → 5%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY: $75k → 14%CHRISTIAN HOMES & FAMILY SERV: $18k → 16%PREBORN: $100k → 16%Gladney Center For Adoption: $25k → 11%CHRISTIAN HOMES & FAMILY SERV: $18k → 16%COMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO: $20k → 16%CHRISTIAN HOMES & FAMILY SERV: $12k → 16%BELLA HOUSE: $80k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $40k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $25k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $25k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $25k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $20k → 5%HOPE WOMENS CENTER: $72k → 5%Hope Womens Center: $42k → 5%Hope Womens Center: $32k → 5%BRAVELOVE: $15k → 14%VIOLAS HOUSE: $50k → 14%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $60k → 11%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $57k → 11%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $26k → 11%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $26k → 11%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $23k → 11%CHRISTIAN WORKS FOR CHILDREN: $62k → 14%CHRISTIANWORKS FOR CHILDREN: $60k → 14%CHRISTIAN WORKS FOR CHILDREN: $58k → 14%CHRISTIAN WORKS FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 14%LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY: $60k → 14%Buckner International: $60k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $27k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%Buckner International: $25k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 50 repeat orgs$827k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
16

Total granted

$9.0M
$635k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+60%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthReligionCivil RightsInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • YE
    YOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED
    8× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +234%
  • DL
    DALLAS LIFE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $470k · revenue +71%
  • RO
    REAL OPTIONS
    7× · 2018–2025 · $418k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • TT
    TRANS TO DESIGNATED RESERVES
    one grant, 2018 · $175k
  • SP
    Southwest Pregnancy Services
    one grant, 2018 · $57k
  • VH
    VIOLAS HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +269%
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
Brenham Pregnancy Center

Brenham Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered organization serving women and families experiencing pregnancy related issues, from unplanned pregnancy to pregnancy loss. We provide life-affirming consultation, education, spiritual support,…

Health
2
Pregnancy Care Center

The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.

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3
Life Choices Care Center

To provide support for pregnant women

Health
4
Life Choice Care Center Inc

To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.

Human Services
5
Center for Pregnancy Choices Metro Area

The organization's mission is to honor god's standard of the sanctity of human life by empowering women facing unplanned pregnancies to choose life.

Health
6
Alternatives Pregnancy Center

It is our mission to provide women with medical care and alternatives to abortion as we proclaim the hope of the Gospel.

—
7
Pregnancy Centers of Middle Tennessee Inc

Our mission is to affirm the value of life by providing a network of care. We strive to empower mothers and fathers experiencing planned and unplanned pregnancies with healthy options through medical services, education, mentoring and…

Health
8
Life Choices Pregnancy Care Center Inc

The center provides free pregnancy tests, limited o.b. ultrasounds, non- professional peer counseling, free literature & brochures on topics related to pregnancy and spiritual issues, emergency support for clients in the form of maternity…

Health
9
Lifes Options Pregnancy Center

Lifes optins pregnancy center is a christian non profit ministry that exists to help pregnant women before, during and after pregnancy with pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and support, parenting classes and free baby items from kids closet.

Health
10
A Woman's Choice

Pregnancy center dedicated to protecting the sanctity of human life.

—
11
Life Choices Crisis Pregnancy Supp

Non-profit medical clinic educating and equipping individuals to make empowered decisions, providing pregnancy confirmation, and offering programs of prevention, intervention, and restoration.

Health
12
Lifechoice Pregnancy Care Center

To provide support to unplanned pregnancies.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Council for Life 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

55 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. 55 of the 71 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
40/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALLAS LIFE INC: $469,780 · OtherDALLAS LIFE INCCATHOLIC CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF DALLAS: $427,915 · OtherCATHOLIC CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF DALL…PRESTONWOOD CARING PEOPLE NETWORK: $353,000 · OtherPRESTONWOOD CARING PEOPLE NETWORKTHE CATHOLIC PRO-LIFE COMMUNITY INC: $308,090 · OtherTHE CATHOLIC PRO-LIFE COMMUNITY INCHOPE WOMENS CENTER: $233,230 · OtherHOPE WOMENS CENTERST JOSEPH'S HELPERS OF DALLAS INC: $214,542 · OtherST JOSEPH'S HELPERS OF DALLAS INCTRANS TO DESIGNATED RESERVES: $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $145,700 · OtherVITAE FOUNDATION: $125,750 · OtherGreater Fort Worth Pro-Life Ministries: $124,015 · Other+17 more: $1,007,603 · Other+17 moreYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED: $524,836 · Human ServicesYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEEDChristian Works For Children Inc: $230,300 · Human ServicesChristian Works For Children …Bella House Inc: $215,000 · Human ServicesBella House IncIN MY SHOES INC: $213,710 · Human ServicesIN MY SHOES INCMission Pre-Born Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesMission Pre-Born IncEmbrace Grace Inc: $192,561 · Human ServicesEmbrace Grace IncBRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC: $180,840 · Human ServicesBRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INCBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $167,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER INTERNATIONALHope Womens Center: $145,225 · Human ServicesHope Womens CenterBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesChristian Homes of Abilene Inc: $94,675 · Human Services+9 more: $339,500 · Human Services+9 moreREAL OPTIONS: $417,796 · HealthREAL OPTIONSPregnancy Resource Center of Lake Ray Hubbard Area: $361,600 · HealthPregnancy Resource Center o…PREGNANCY HELP 4U INC: $317,689 · HealthPREGNANCY HELP 4U INCARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $225,840 · HealthARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER …WATERMARK HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $215,000 · HealthWATERMARK HEALTH A NONPROFI…FORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $197,884 · HealthFORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY…WRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook: $176,378 · HealthWRC Pregnancy Center of Ell…Pregnancy Resource Center of GP: $166,500 · HealthPregnancy Resource Center o…Abel Speaks: $121,340 · HealthVitamin Bridge: $110,000 · Health+3 more: $155,021 · Health+3 moreStudents for Life of America Inc: $170,000 · Civil RightsLIVE ACTION: $88,000 · Civil RightsCare Net: $80,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $12,000 · Civil RightsMID-CITIES PREGNANCY CARE INC: $272,000 · ReligionTHEOLOGY OF THE BODY EVANGELIZATION: $49,600 · ReligionLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $16,500 · Religion+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionYOUNG LIFE: $325,393 · Youth DevelopmentBLESSINGS INTERNATIONAL: $153,000 · InternationalEmbrace Waiting Children Inc: $122,640 · International
Other$3,584,625Human Services$2,638,647Health$2,465,048Civil Rights$350,000Religion$348,100Youth Development$325,393International$275,640

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 budgetYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED: $524,836 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $469,780 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF DALLAS: $427,915 over 8y, 18% of budgetREAL OPTIONS: $417,796 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center of Lake Ray Hubbard Area: $361,600 over 8y, 11% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $325,393 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY HELP 4U INC: $317,689 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetMID-CITIES PREGNANCY CARE INC: $272,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetChristian Works For Children Inc: $230,300 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $225,840 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWATERMARK HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $215,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBella House Inc: $215,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HELPERS OF DALLAS INC: $214,542 over 5y, 12% of budgetIN MY SHOES INC: $213,710 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetFORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $197,884 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetEmbrace Grace Inc: $192,561 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetBRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC: $180,840 over 4y, 14% of budgetWRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook: $176,378 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $170,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $167,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center of GP: $166,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetBLESSINGS INTERNATIONAL: $153,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHope Womens Center: $145,225 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $135,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVITAE FOUNDATION: $125,750 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGreater Fort Worth Pro-Life Ministries: $124,015 over 4y, 16% of budgetEmbrace Waiting Children Inc: $122,640 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetAbel Speaks: $121,340 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetVitamin Bridge: $110,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMater Filius of Dallas Inc: $95,278 over 2y, 35% of budgetChristian Homes of Abilene Inc: $94,675 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAIM FOR SUCCESS INC: $92,970 over 3y, 15% of budgetPregnancy Lifeline: $90,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCare Net: $80,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmira's House: $77,972 over 3y, 16% of budgetMercy House Ministries Inc: $76,800 over 3y, 14% of budgetCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetNIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS: $65,715 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $60,021 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVIOLAS HOUSE: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCommunity Doulas of Waco: $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHEOLOGY OF THE BODY EVANGELIZATION: $49,600 over 1y, 11% of budgetDEEP ROOTS MINISTRIES INC: $48,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTOGETHER FOR GOOD: $39,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLifeTalk Resource Center: $20,000 over 1y, 6.0% 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 YOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds REAL OPTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center of Lake Ray Hubbard Area ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY HELP 4U INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-CITIES PREGNANCY CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Christian Works For Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERMARK HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Bella House Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HELPERS OF DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds IN MY SHOES INC ↗
  • Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
  • Who funds FORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Embrace Grace Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook ↗
  • Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center of GP ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Hope Womens Center ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds VITAE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Greater Fort Worth Pro-Life Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Embrace Waiting Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds Abel Speaks ↗
  • Who funds Vitamin Bridge ↗
  • Who funds Mater Filius of Dallas Inc ↗
  • Who funds Christian Homes of Abilene Inc ↗
  • Who funds AIM FOR SUCCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Pregnancy Lifeline ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Mission Pre-Born IncVitamin Angel Allianc…Texas Instruments Fou…The Thomas FoundationTextron Charitable Tr…Community Foundation …The Dallas FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…Hike for Life IncServant FoundationKnights of Columbus C…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX56.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Council for Life funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Council for Life. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 71 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 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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