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Painted River 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.

$352k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$134k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$214kPhilanthropy$204kHuman Services$187kInternational$115kHealth$25kPublic Benefit$20kRecreation & Sports$20kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $184k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$134,000
HOPE HAVEN$50,000
RWANDA CHILDREN$45,450
NAOMI'S VILLAGE$30,000
MISSION WACO$25,000
HIGHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH$20,000
MISSION TO THE WORLD$10,000
FOSTER LOVE BELL COUNTY$10,000
TEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC$10,000
WORSHIP AT THE MALL$10,000
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$5,000
DR CAROL MINISTRIES$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 10%FOSTER LOVE BELL COUNTY: $10k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$218k · 5 repeat orgs$620k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +136% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
24

Total granted

$218k
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+136%
+16%

Still filing today

80%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $324k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BM
    BARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $116k · revenue +25%
  • MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +278%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • WC
    WELLSSPRING CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • MM
    MAQOR MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -23%
  • CS
    CENTEX SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Passionlife Ministries Inc

Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.

Religion
3
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
4
What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
5
Global Impact Ministries Inc Dba Love Life

Love Life is uniting and mobilizing the church to create a culture of love and life that will bring an end to abortion and the orphan crisis.

Religion
6
Christian Life Ministries

Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…

Human Services
7
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
8
Freedom That Lasts Ministries

Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.

Human Services
9
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
10
Mark Driscoll Ministries

To proclaim the gospel of jesus christ

Religion
11
Faith Warrior Ministry

To reach gods elect with the gospel

Religion
12
Lifesource Ministries Inc

Christ-centered organization dedicated to empowering women with the truth and hope they need to choose life. develop and distribution of informational and educational materials.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

20 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. 20 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $134,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES: $116,000 · OtherBARTIMAEUS MINISTRIESWELLSSPRING CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherWELLSSPRING CHURCHHOPE HAVEN: $50,000 · OtherHOPE HAVENRwanda Children: $45,450 · OtherRwanda ChildrenCARENET: $41,250 · OtherCARENET+17 more: $164,912 · Other+17 moreMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $28,500 · ReligionMISSION WAC…MAQOR MINISTRIES: $25,000 · ReligionMAQOR MINIS…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S…DR CAROL MINISTRIES INC: $12,500 · ReligionDR CAROL MI…+1 more: $2,500 · ReligionNAOMI'S VILLAGE INC: $30,000 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $10,000 · InternationalRICK CAYWOOD MINISTRIES: $5,000 · InternationalFOSTER LOVE BELL COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5,000 · Human ServicesTEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthAGAPE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$651,612Religion$88,500International$45,000Human Services$25,000Health$20,000Education$5,000Youth Development$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARTIMAEUS MINISTRIES: $116,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetRwanda Children: $45,450 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNAOMI'S VILLAGE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $28,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAQOR MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE ADOPTIONS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSUNSHINE RECOVERY HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetDR CAROL MINISTRIES INC: $12,500 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetFOSTER LOVE BELL COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICK CAYWOOD MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGAPE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY OUTFITTERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

The Gary & Diane Heav…The Signatry Charitab…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Gary & Diane Heavin Community FundTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gary & Diane Heavin Community Fund · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Painted River Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Painted River Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Painted River Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Painted River Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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