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DNBA Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of DNBA Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year DNBA Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $129k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VILLAGE CHURCH | $39,000 |
| PROJECTHANDUP | $25,000 |
| HARDING UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LODI | $13,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE PROPERTY CHARITABLE TR | $10,000 |
| COACHES OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| CHIN COMMUNITY MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| PREGNANCY HELP 4 U INC | $5,000 |
| NAOMIS VILLAGE INC | $2,684 |
| COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY | $2,000 |
| NAOMIS VILLAGE INC | $1,287 |
| HARDING UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| NAOMIS VILLAGE INC | $100 |
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 (FY17–18, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- NVNAOMI'S VILLAGE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +56%
- COCOACHES OUTREACH2× · 2018–2019 · $7k · revenue +46%
- PHPREGNANCY HELP 4U INC3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- FUFamily Upreach Inc New Life Behaviorone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +13% · 41% of their budget
- CCITYSQUAREone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -48%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +83%
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coaches Outreach and the most unlike its peers is Chin Community Ministry. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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
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 Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds Family Upreach Inc New Life Behavior ↗
- Who funds PROJECTHANDUP ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NAOMI'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Chin Community Ministry ↗
- Who funds COACHES OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HELP 4U INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR MISSIONAL LEADERSHIP DBA SPARROW MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BIBLEPROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE JOURNEY TO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST COAST ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon 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 DNBA 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.
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