· Private foundation
Garlyn & Lajuan Shelton Christian 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of GARLYN & LAJUAN SHELTON CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $398k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS | $100,000 |
| INSTITURE FOR GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT | $100,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SALADO | $90,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $56,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL DISTRICT | $52,275 |
| RESTORATION FELLOWSHIP | $30,000 |
| AVOCA METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| AVOCA BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| WILDWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BELL COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT | $20,000 |
| STAMFORD FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL | $15,000 |
| CHURCHES TOUCHING LIVES FOR CHRIST | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +29% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +134%
- TCTEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC4× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +129%
BODY OF CHRIST COMMUNITY CLINIC INC6× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SBSHINER BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $42k
- GCGRACE CHURCH SALADOone grant, 2021 · $25k
- BOBENJAMIN O DAVIS VFW 9191one grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Provide teaching of the word of god and religious music.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
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."
To deliver high quality healthcare emphasizing excellence and compassion consistent with the healing ministry of jesus christ.
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…
A church whose primary purpose is to spread the gospel of jesus christ to the world
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 42 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) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 99 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 DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Institute for Global Engagement ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BODY OF CHRIST COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE HUNGRY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES TOUCHING LIVES FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds JAIL MINISTRY ↗
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: Scott & White Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Central Texas Inc · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Scott & White Memorial Hospital · The Frank W & Sue Mayborn Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Enterprise Holdings 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 Garlyn & Lajuan Shelton Christian 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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