· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| INSTITURE FOR GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT | $100,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| WILDWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| AVOCA BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| STAMFORD FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| BELL COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL | $15,000 |
| CHURCHES TOUCHING LIVES FOR CHRIST | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 99 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Garlyn & Lajuan Shelton Christian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garlyn & Lajuan Shelton Christian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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