· Private foundation
Nita Thiessen Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $945k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Impact Church | $300,000 |
| Roots & Wings Inc | $225,000 |
| Centro de Rehabilitacion Luz en mi Camino AC | $200,000 |
| Tigertown Mennonite Evangelical Church | $200,000 |
| Lighthouse Mission Church | $160,000 |
| Vida 180 | $100,000 |
| Victory Life Church | $60,000 |
| Adult Teen Chalenge of Texas | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| His Little Feet | $25,000 |
| Depot Christian School | $25,000 |
| Word of Life Fellowship INC | $20,000 |
| Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society | $20,000 |
| Como Volunteer Fire Department | $20,000 |
| Downtown Food Pantry | $20,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RWRoots & Wings International Ministries3× · 2022–2024 · $260k · revenue +81% · 54% of their budget
- CFCASA For Kids Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $32k · revenue +20%
- RRRed River Valley Down Syndrome Society2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MIMedi-Chair Incone grant, 2023 · $43k
- COCity of Reno Texasone grant, 2022 · $25k
- EVEnnis Volunteer Fire Deptone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
To provide a supportive environment where foster families, biological families, and the children they love and service may work toward healing from painful pasts through faith and friendship.
Continue to provide rescues of horses,donkeys, and large dogs
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
Christain Home
West Harrison Volunteer Fire Department is organized to provide fire fighting, rescue and other emergency services for the preservation of life and the protection of property from fire or other emergencies within the area of its operation…
Providing volunteer fire-fighting services on the west side of Possum Kingdom Lake in Palo Pinto County.
Animal Rescue
To provide healing and restoration through God's love and grace for children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 49 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 Roots & Wings International Ministries ↗
- Who funds HIS LITTLE FEET ↗
- Who funds WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CASA For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTON VFD ↗
- Who funds PARIS AREA HOMESCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSO ↗
- Who funds Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society ↗
- Who funds Paris Pregnancy Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ROXTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nita Thiessen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nita Thiessen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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