· Private foundation
Give to Life Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH WITH A MISSION | $10,500 |
| PIONEERS INC | $3,250 |
| WORLD VISION INC | $2,870 |
| TEN 24 INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,400 |
| HAMILTON LIFE CHURCH | $1,534 |
| ILLUMINATE MINISTRIES | $1,250 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $1,200 |
| NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD | $1,200 |
| BRINER INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| ROOT CAUSE INSTITUTE INC | $1,000 |
| UNBOUND NORTH TEXAS | $808 |
| ADERA FOUNDATION | $800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $670 |
| CRAZY8 MINISTRIES | $600 |
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, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
41 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 9 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- CACORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +66%
- RHRESCUE HER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +139%
- CMCRAZY8 MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- DBDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +39%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +392%- SCSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +50%
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.
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…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
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.
Mission Without Borders (MWB) 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,…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
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…
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
Uncharted ministries informs, inspires and challenges the christian church to serve the people of the middle east and in uncharted lands.
World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…
Fmi works among people in areas of war, persecution, and poverty, primarily in restricted-access countries, seeking to strengthen the church, give voice to persecuted christians, and preach and publish the gospel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Hungry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 79 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE HER INC ↗
- Who funds CRAZY8 MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FINDING COMMON PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE UGANDA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Life Preparatory School ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN VALOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ADERA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UnBound North Texas ↗
- Who funds TEN 24 Inc ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds THE WINGMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds World Help ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation · Once Upon a Time Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Give to Life 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Finding Common Purpose Inc — 23% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.