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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.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
125
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$6.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$68MEducation$4.0MPhilanthropy$4.0MInternational$1.4MCrime & Legal$1.4MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$1.2MHealth$547kOther$0
02FY2025 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 125 grants below total $14,786,759, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,206,592 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $419,833 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $249k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+9 grants · $11M
$17,100
Median grant
26
States reached
$122M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Game Plan for Life$200,000
Kingdom Servants Inc$200,000
222 Foundation$138,111
Compass Church Iowa$135,000
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, $1.6M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Happy Hill Farm: $200k → 10%The Life Center: $32k → 12%Spoken Worldwide: $20k → 14%Cal Farleys Boys Ranch: $22k → 20%Helping Hands Ministries: $10k → 9%Overland Missions: $100k → 10%Frontlines International: $16k → 13%Apollos Project: $15k → 14%Helping Hands Ministries: $26k → 13%Happy Hill Farm: $100k → 10%The Life Center: $30k → 12%Spoken Worldwide: $16k → 14%Cal Farleys Boys Ranch: $21k → 20%Apollos Project: $10k → 14%Happy Hill Farm: $100k → 10%The Life Center: $23k → 12%Cal Farleys Boys Ranch: $19k → 20%Apollos Project: $8k → 14%Happy Hill Farm: $100k → 10%The Life Center: $22k → 12%Cal Farleys Boys Ranch: $12k → 20%Happy Hill Farm: $100k → 10%The Life Center: $12k → 12%Happy Hill Farm: $100k → 10%Spoken Worldwide: $10k → 14%Happy Hill Farm: $100k → 10%Happy Hill Farm: $100k → 10%Spoken Worldwide: $10k → 14%Happy Hill Farm: $25k → 10%Kingdom Servants Inc: $200k → 11%The Men of Nehemiah: $20k → 14%The Men of Nehemiah: $10k → 14%The Men of Nehemiah: $10k → 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
NY
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
OK
MS
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77M · 135 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135
59

Total granted

$77M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+3%

Still filing today

61%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • DT
    Dallas Theological Seminary
    9× · 2017–2025 · $49M · revenue +81%
  • EP
    E3 Partners Ministry
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +8%
  • CE
    CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +144%
  • BC
    BEYOND CELIACgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue +70%
  • HI
    HEALTHCARE IN HAITI INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -75%
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
Charis Bible College Inc

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.

Religion
4
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
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
Biglife International Inc

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

Recreation & Sports
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
Leadership Resources International

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

Religion
9
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
10
Overseas Campus Ministries Inc

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…

Religion
11
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
12
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
139/154
Grantees still filing
98/154
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dallas Theological Seminary: $48,769,232 · EducationDallas Theological Seminary+19 more: $3,028,958 · Education+19 moreE3 Partners Ministry: $2,491,251 · ReligionE3 Partners Min…Luis Palau Association: $884,970 · ReligionLuis Palau Asso…GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH: $720,000 · ReligionGLOBAL MEDIA OU…RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH: $683,400 · ReligionRAMESH RICHARD …LIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY: $680,000 · ReligionLIONHEART CHILD…The Urban Alternative: $657,341 · ReligionThe Urban Alter…Christian Herald Association Inc: $532,000 · ReligionSKYLARK CAMPS INC: $515,000 · ReligionARIEL MINISTRIES: $488,111 · ReligionEast-West Ministries International: $460,939 · ReligionTELLING THE TRUTH INC: $457,520 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $400,000 · Religion+40 more: $2,151,469 · Religion+40 moreCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $938,958 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE …OVERSEAS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL INC: $806,500 · OtherOVERSEAS COUNCI…CAM INTERNATIONAL: $604,908 · OtherCOMPASS CHURCH IOWA: $585,000 · OtherBENT TREE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP: $584,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $550,645 · OtherNORTHWEST BIBLE CHURCH: $452,883 · OtherFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $516,850 · OtherPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $474,000 · Other+94 more: $6,054,862 · Other+94 moreNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $3,936,434 · Philanthropy+4 more: $140,617 · PhilanthropyCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $1,940,332 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $370,500 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $82,900 · Youth Development+1 more: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentHAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC: $925,000 · Human ServicesKINGDOM SERVANTS INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesPERMIAN BASIN WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER THE LIFE CENTER FOUNDATION: $119,000 · Human ServicesOVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $99,732 · Human ServicesYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED: $75,000 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $74,000 · Human Services+6 more: $217,100 · Human ServicesFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $817,965 · Civil RightsTEXAS VALUES: $146,500 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $36,315 · Civil Rights+1 more: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Education$51,798,190Religion$11,122,001Other$11,568,606Philanthropy$4,077,051Youth Development$2,408,732Human Services$1,709,832Civil Rights$1,010,780

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $48,769,232 over 9y, 18% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $3,936,434 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetE3 Partners Ministry: $2,491,251 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $1,940,332 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetHAPPY HILL FARM CHILDRENS HOME INC: $925,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $884,970 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $817,965 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetOVERSEAS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL INC: $806,500 over 8y, 17% of budgetGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH: $720,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetRAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH: $683,400 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetFoster College: $680,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetLIONHEART CHILDREN'S ACADEMY: $680,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetPRINCE OF PEACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $675,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetThe Urban Alternative: $657,341 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $532,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $516,850 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetSKYLARK CAMPS INC: $515,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $474,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEast-West Ministries International: $460,939 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTELLING THE TRUTH INC: $457,520 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetAFRICA NEW LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $404,580 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $400,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $370,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMastermedia International Inc: $357,540 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF EAST TEXAS INC: $322,100 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetBiblical Education By Extension Inc: $305,200 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetTHE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC: $214,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFIRST CHOICE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTERS INC: $199,135 over 8y, 2.5% of budget222 Foundation: $188,111 over 3y, 21% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST - PEORIA AREA: $159,300 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTEXAS VALUES: $146,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetNOE INTERNATIONAL: $136,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetBEYOND CELIAC: $125,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER THE LIFE CENTER FOUNDATION: $119,000 over 5y, 72% of budgetWorldview Academy: $111,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC: $110,970 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROBE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetHEALTHCARE IN HAITI INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetOVERLAND MISSIONS INC: $99,732 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ASHBROOK CENTER: $96,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetOpen Doors With Brother Andrew Inc: $83,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $82,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOST & FOUND INTERNATIONAL INC: $81,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $81,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $77,400 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetGLOBAL OUTREACH INC: $77,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED: $75,000 over 2y, 1.7% 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 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 ↗

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…Servant FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…Communities Foundatio…Chattanooga Christian…Dallas Seminary Found…Prairie Creek Partner…Christian Community F…The Dallas FoundationBreunig Family Founda…The US Charitable Gif…Texas Instruments Fou…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO61.6× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dallas Seminary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    12get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 226 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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