Texas · Private foundation
Heavenly Fathers 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.
- $9.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 45
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $6.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $17,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $228M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Heavenly Fathers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 45 | $6.4M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $7.3M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $7.3M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $4.3M | 67% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $6.5M | 43% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $6.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $3,450,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Dr James Dobson Family Institute | $3,310,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Medical Institute for Sexual Health | $1,075,000 | 3 | 43% |
| Passionlife Ministries Inc | $911,600 | 4 | 27% |
| New Horizons Ranch & Center Inc | $595,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Destiny Ministries Inc | $581,000 | 1 | n/a |
| DeliverFund | $580,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Aldersgate Enrichment Center Inc | $512,621 | 2 | n/a |
| Foundation to Abolish Abortion | $497,000 | 3 | 59% |
| The Solid Rock | $361,000 | 4 | 10% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Heavenly Fathers Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Food Bank of West Central Texas · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Community Foundation of Abilene · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation
How this is measured
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About Heavenly Fathers Foundation
- How much does Heavenly Fathers Foundation give?
- Heavenly Fathers Foundation reported 45 itemized grants totaling $6,386,500, out of $9,300,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Heavenly Fathers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Civil Rights (13%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Heavenly Fathers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alliance Defending Freedom ($3.5M), Dr James Dobson Family Institute ($3.3M), Medical Institute for Sexual Health ($1.1M).
- Does Heavenly Fathers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Heavenly Fathers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Heavenly Fathers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc.
- Where is Heavenly Fathers Foundation based?
- Heavenly Fathers Foundation is based in TX.
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