· Private foundation
Hobbs Foundation
Its FY2025 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE | $11,200 |
| HOLY LAND MISSIONS | $5,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING CHURCH | $5,000 |
| KERYGMA VENTURES | $2,000 |
| BEAUTIFUL FEET MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +161%- TCTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY5× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +46%
TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- LFLEGACY FAMILY MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +86%
- MCMIDWAY CHOIR BOOSTER ORGANIZATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
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…
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
Ariel ministries exists to bring the good news of the messiah to jewish people and to disciple believers through intensive bible teaching from a messianic jewish perspective and dispensational theological position. continued on schedule o
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 48 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 MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOLY LAND MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds JOHN WOOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kerygma Ventures ↗
- Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ↗
- Who funds FUZZY FRIENDS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF WACO ↗
- Who funds LET'S START TALKING 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: Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Clifton Foundation · Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundation · The Fentress Foundation · The McClane Brown Family Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Cooper Foundation · Baylor University · Waco Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hobbs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hobbs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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