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· Private foundation
GOOD NEWS FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$650k
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
1
Communities
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Philanthropy$265kInternational$150kEducation$105kHousing & Shelter$85kHuman Services$80kHealth$75kOther$160k
02FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $475k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
- AMAZON OUTREACH INC$150,000
- THE KING'S ACADEMY$105,000
- CHANGING DESTINY PROJECT$95,000
- CASA EL BUEN SAMARITANO$75,000
- BONTON FARMS$50,000
- BAYOU CITY BLESSINGS$40,000
- BUCKENER PARKWAY PLACE SENIOR$35,000
- GRACEWOOD$35,000
- STONEY CREEK RANCH$35,000
- CENTER FOR PURSUIT$30,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Christs Hope U S a Inc
Empowering orphaned and vulnerable children to break the cycles of extreme poverty, AIDS, and spiritual brokenness through family-based care and discipleship in Jesus Christ.
Human Services
2
Child Hope International
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ-centered care, training and social work.
Arts & Culture
3
Bridge of Hope Ministries
As a faith-based organization, we believe our mission is to share God's love for all unhoused or housing insecure individuals regardless of age, gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or faith tradition.
Religion
4
Casa Viva
Promote Christian child care and foster care networks
International
5
Childcare Worldwide
Childcare Worldwide transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education.
International
6
Every Orphans Hope
To glorify God and see orphans raised to life in Christ, in a home, in a family, and in a community where they are known and loved.
Religion
7
Christian Homes of Abilene Inc
To change lives and build Christian families through maternity, foster, and adoption services.
Human Services
8
Orphan Outreach
The establishment of Christian based programs to improve the lives of orphans and children at risk in Kenya, Guatemala, Honduras, Russia, India, Ukraine, Latvia, and Nepal.
International
9
A Child's Hope International
To motivate and mobilize the church and community to care for the orphans and vulnerable children through adoption, foster care, orphan care and humanitarian relief.
Human Services
10
Homes of Hope Inc
Homes of Hope, Inc. is active in combating trafficking of persons. Our desire is to create a culture of freedom from the cycles of forced sex thereby restoring every child's dignity and innocence.
Human Services
11
Harvest Bridge
Harvest Bridge equips South Asian Christians to serve their communities more effectively. With our assistance, people and communities in South Asia are transformed by the love of Christ.
Religion
12
Open Door Adoption Agency Inc
The mission of Open Door Adoption Agency is to preserve and enhance human life through the placement of domestic and international children into loving Christian adoptive families. The counseling and placement services of the ministry…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gracewood Inc and the most unlike its peers is King's Academy. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$265,000Other$160,000International$150,000Education$105,000Housing & Shelter$85,000Human Services$80,000Health$75,000
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.
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.
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation GOOD NEWS FOUNDATION OF TEXAS 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHANGING DESTINY PROJECT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +64% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 464409961 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CHANGING DESTINY PROJECT, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Good News Foundation of Texas?
Find your warmest path to Good News Foundation of Texas through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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