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Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund

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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
98
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$462k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$25MEducation$5.3MInternational$4.1MCivil Rights$1.7MYouth Development$541kPhilanthropy$498kHuman Services$482kHealth$211kOther$0
02FY2025 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k67 grants · $207k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $454k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $371k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$5,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$566k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GiveClear Foundation$461,743
Global Media Outreach$400,000
E3 Partners Ministry$333,334
Lifewise$250,000
Revive Our Hearts$100,900
Berrien Center Bible Church$94,450
Masters Men$64,000
Life Action Ministries$61,666
The Center for Study NT Manuscripts$50,000
Endure International$47,160
OneCry$39,180
Cornerstone Ministries Inc$30,000
Princeton Christian Fellowship$30,000
Christian Aid Mission$25,000
Life Plan$23,395
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Woodburn Christian Childrens Home: $15k → 12%Woodburn Christian Childrens Home: $12k → 12%Woodburn Christian Childrens Home: $9k → 12%Family Research Council: $100k → 14%Family Research Council: $75k → 14%Family Research Council: $35k → 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
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 134 repeat orgs$7.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

134 repeat relationships: 88 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

134
51

Total granted

$33M
$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+26%

Still filing today

46%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $819k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • EP
    E3 Partners Ministry
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11M · revenue +52% · 27% of their budget
  • DT
    Dallas Theological Seminary
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +39%
  • LC
    LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +259%

Funded once

  • OF
    One For Israel
    one grant, 2023 · $1.3M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $800k
  • UI
    United in Purpose
    one grant, 2022 · $775k · revenue -69%
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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3
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
4
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
5
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
6
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
7
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
8
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
9
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
10
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
11
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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12
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hope for the Heart. 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

90 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. 90 of the 195 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/90
Grantees still filing
62/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

E3 Partners Ministry: $11,102,242 · ReligionE3 Partners MinistryGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH: $2,935,000 · ReligionGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACHLIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY: $1,000,000 · ReligionBiblical Education By Extension Inc: $980,000 · ReligionOpen Doors With Brother Andrew Inc: $900,000 · Religion+29 more: $3,311,382 · Religion+29 morePRESTONWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2,700,000 · OtherPRESTONWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMYCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON: $1,525,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTO…One For Israel: $1,250,000 · OtherOne For IsraelIndividual grant recipient: $870,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $800,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOverseas Council: $614,500 · OtherMESA GLOBAL: $529,000 · OtherGiveClear Foundation: $461,743 · Other+122 more: $4,140,240 · Other+122 moreDallas Theological Seminary: $2,207,695 · EducationDallas Theo…KING'S ACADEMY: $600,000 · EducationKING'S ACAD…PRINCE OF PEACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $600,000 · EducationPRINCE OF P…MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $500,000 · EducationMIDDLE EAST…+4 more: $231,400 · Education+4 moreUnited in Purpose: $775,000 · Civil RightsFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $590,000 · Civil RightsAmericans United for Life Inc: $291,048 · Civil Rights+2 more: $29,890 · Civil RightsLIFEWISE INC: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIVE PINES MINISTRIES: $100,728 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC: $100,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $6,692 · Youth DevelopmentMercy Ships International: $124,000 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $124,000 · InternationalGLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 · InternationalJUDEA HARVEST INCORPORATED: $45,000 · InternationalONE COLLECTIVE: $39,475 · InternationalENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA: $35,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $31,000 · International+2 more: $15,338 · InternationalFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $360,000 · Human ServicesWOODBURN CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME INC: $36,000 · Human Services
Religion$20,228,624Other$12,890,483Education$4,139,095Civil Rights$1,685,938Youth Development$617,420International$513,813Human Services$396,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetE3 Partners Ministry: $11,102,242 over 6y, 27% of budgetGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH: $2,935,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $2,207,695 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON: $1,525,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetLIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY: $1,000,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetOpen Doors With Brother Andrew Inc: $900,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGROW Gospel Initiatives: $650,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetPRINCE OF PEACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $600,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $590,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $500,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetRE-FORMA: $400,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $360,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHARVESTERS MINISTRIES: $350,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $323,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc: $291,048 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUSATransform: $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE MASTER'S MEN: $230,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetLIFE ACTION MINISTRIES: $185,332 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPRINCETON CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $180,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetYOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC: $160,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetENDURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $154,960 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF GEORGIA: $150,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetMercy Ships International: $124,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE PINES MINISTRIES: $100,728 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $84,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION EURASIA: $82,400 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVISION OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC: $71,100 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetFriends of the Great Commission: $65,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLIFEPLAN: $62,661 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetLANGHAM PARTNERSHIP USA INC NFP: $62,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR THE HEART: $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $58,826 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONECRY GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC: $54,180 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $49,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSERGE GLOBAL INC: $48,232 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROCKVILLE PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $46,600 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE LAMB CENTER: $46,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJUDEA HARVEST INCORPORATED: $45,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetONE COLLECTIVE: $39,475 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOODBURN CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME INC: $36,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCASA CHIRILAGUA: $36,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT MEDSEND: $32,000 over 6y, 0.6% 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 E3 Partners Ministry ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Biblical Education By Extension Inc ↗
  • Who funds Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc ↗
  • Who funds United in Purpose ↗
  • Who funds GROW Gospel Initiatives ↗
  • Who funds KING'S ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PRINCE OF PEACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds RE-FORMA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTERS MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Americans United for Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
  • Who funds USATransform ↗
  • Who funds THE MASTER'S MEN ↗
  • Who funds LIFE ACTION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH BELIEVING IN CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
  • Who funds ENDURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF GEORGIA ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Tyndale House Ministr…Dallas Seminary Found…Christian Community F…Servant FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…The Bolick FoundationFirst Fruit IncChattanooga Christian…International Generos…G II CharitiesCommunities Foundatio…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO40.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · Dallas Seminary Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Bolick Foundation · First Fruit Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · G II Charities · Communities Foundation of Texas 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 Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Youth 71FIVE Ministries: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund?

Find your warmest path to Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund 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 195 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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