· Private foundation
John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR | $100,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT AND WHITE CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION | $33,333 |
| OUR HOSPICE HOUSE | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR8× · 2017–2025 · $600k · revenue +13%
- BSBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION-MCLANE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL2× · 2017–2018 · $100k
- OHOUR HOSPICE HOUSE3× · 2023–2025 · $60k
Funded once
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXASone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -42%
- OLOUR LADY OF THE ANGELS MATERNITY HOME INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -45%
- BCBELTON CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +40%
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.
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."
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
In the spirit of christ's love, the ministry of united church of christ homes is to provide care and service to elders through acts of love and compassion.
To develop and provide premier, wellness-based campuses and community outreach.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.
Catholic eldercare provides a full continuum of care for seniors. our goal is to support each person throughout the remainder of their lives in a holistic way. we provide care in partnership with family, church and community in as least…
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Trinity bible college & graduate school (tbc) is committed to training and educating people with theological reflection and missional passion in order that people and communities everywhere will hear the good news of jesus and see his love…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR ↗
- Who funds OUR HOSPICE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS MATERNITY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BELTON CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELDREDS NURSERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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: E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John H & Martha Garner Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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