· Public charity
Dallas Seminary Foundation
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 125 grants below total $14,786,759 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,206,592 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $419,833 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $249k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+9 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dallas Theological Seminary | $6,126,000 |
| Child Evangelism Fellowship | $1,482,332 |
| Global Media Outreach | $600,000 |
| Urban Alternative | $510,151 |
| Focus on the Family | $500,111 |
| E3 Partners Ministry | $500,001 |
| American Council Asian Christ Acad | $489,411 |
| Ariel Ministries | $488,111 |
| Samaritans Purse | $264,000 |
| First Liberty Institute | $239,000 |
| Trinity Presbyterian Church | $217,000 |
| Kingdom Servants Inc | $200,000 |
| Game Plan for Life | $200,000 |
| 222 Foundation | $138,111 |
| Compass Church Iowa | $135,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
135 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DTDallas Theological Seminary9× · 2017–2025 · $49M · revenue +81%
- EPE3 Partners Ministry9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +8%
- CECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TCTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +144%
- BCBEYOND CELIACgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue +70%
- HIHEALTHCARE IN HAITI INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -77%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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…
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
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.
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…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
To preach and propogate the gospel of jesus christ in the united states and throughout the world, to provide christian literature and training materials through various forms of media, and to offer christian leadership and discipleship…
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…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Biblical Archaeology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 154 of the 226 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OVERSEAS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Foster College ↗
- Who funds LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PRINCE OF PEACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Urban Alternative ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLARK CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA COUNCIL OF ASIAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ARIEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds TELLING THE TRUTH INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Mastermedia International Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Biblical Education By Extension Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM SERVANTS INC ↗
- Who funds GAME PLAN FOR LIFE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Dallas Foundation · Breunig Family Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dallas Seminary Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.