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Research Educational Foundation Inc

TO GLORIFY THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$240kReligion$130kHuman Services$80kCommunity Improvement$45kHousing & Shelter$40kHealth$30kFood & Nutrition$20kCrime & Legal$15kEducation$5kOther$190k
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPIRIT COMMUNICATIONS$25,000
HOPE MEDIA GROUP$25,000
THE STOREHOUSE OF COLLIN COUNTY$15,000
LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION$10,000
SAMARITAN INN$10,000
MASTERMEDIA MINISTRIES$10,000
DALLAS LIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
HHM HEALTH$5,000
JONATHAN'S PLACE$5,000
BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND$5,000
NEIGHBORS NOURISHING NEIGHBORS$5,000
MERCY HOUSE MINISTRIES$5,000
WORLD RADIO NETWORK$5,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION DALLAS$5,000
NEED HIM GLOBAL$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPES DOOR NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER: $5k → 5%LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%HOPES DOOR NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER: $5k → 5%LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%HOPES DOOR NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER: $5k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $5k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $5k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $5k → 5%VIOLA'S HOUSE: $5k → 14%VIOLA'S HOUSE: $5k → 14%LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF MCKINNEY: $5k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$710k · 24 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
9

Total granted

$710k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+20%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureReligionHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HM
    HOPE MEDIA GROUP
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +48%
  • MM
    MASTERMEDIA MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +32% · 40% of their budget
  • TS
    THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • EM
    EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +10%
  • CR
    CUSTER ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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2
The Family Radio Network Inc

The family broadcasts the hope of jesus christ to strengthen and encourage listeners.

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3
Hope Faith Ministries Inc

Hope Faith Ministries Inc. works to alleviate homelessness and poverty in the Kansas City area by providing basic necessities and assistance while also providing critical programs to help empower individ

Human Services
4
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services
5
Bridge of Hope Ministries

Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.

Religion
6
Katy Christian Ministries

See Schedule O.Katy Christian Ministries (KCM) is a social service non-profit that serves the Katy/West Houston area. KCM's Social Service Department offers emergency financial assistance, a Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the…

Human Services
7
Houston Christian Broadcasters Inc

Provide teaching of the word of god and religious music.

Arts & Culture
8
Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County

A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.

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9
First Baptist Denton Ministry Center

The mission of First Refuge Ministries is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ by offering essential services to those in need within our community. Our belief is that every person has worth and value since they are created by God. Our goal…

Health
10
Refuge of Hope Ministries

Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.

Religion
11
Hearts for Homes

The mission of Hearts for Homes is to improve the living conditions of low-income senior homeowners in Denton County. Hearts for Homes is a nonprofit Christian outreach providing hope and dignity through home rehabilitation, affording…

Human Services
12
Immaculate Heart Media Inc

Relevant radio - bringing christ to the world through the media.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope for the Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%3%<5yr18%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr8%42%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%1%<5yr18%1%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr15%39%20–35yr8%41%35–55yr12%5%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/32
the rest of the field
17%
3,527/20,635

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SPIRIT COMMUNICATIONS INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSPIRIT COMMUNICATIONS INCHOPE MEDIA GROUP — $100,000 · Arts & CultureHOPE MEDIA GROUPWorld Radio Network Inc — $30,000 · Arts & CultureWorld Radio Network IncEDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS LIFE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherDALLAS LIFE FOUNDATIONSAMARITAN INN INC — $35,000 · OtherSAMARITAN INN INCIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $20,000 · OtherALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACHWay Media Inc — $20,000 · OtherWay Media IncBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND — $15,000 · OtherBROTHER BILLS HELPING HANDUGM OF DALLAS — $15,000 · OtherUGM OF DALLASCUSTER ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherNEIGHBORS NOURISHING NEIGHBORS — $15,000 · OtherNEIGHBORS NOURISHING NEIGHBORSEXODUS MINISTRIES — $15,000 · OtherEXODUS MINISTRIES+5 more — $25,000 · Other+5 moreMASTERMEDIA MINISTRIES INC — $75,000 · ReligionMASTERMEDIA MINIST…NEED HIM NATIONAL MEDIA OUTREACH INC — $30,000 · ReligionNEED HIM NATIONAL …PENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $20,000 · ReligionPENFOLD COMMUNICAT…FAITH COMMUNICATIONS CORP — $5,000 · ReligionLIFESAVERS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesLIFESAVERS …HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE'S DOOR…Bella House Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesBella House…VIOLAS HOUSE — $10,000 · Human ServicesVIOLAS HOUS…KID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $5,000 · Human ServicesKID NET FOU…COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY F…THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 · Community ImprovementMercy House Ministries Inc — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterAGAPE RESOURCE & ASSISTANCE CENTER INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterPROMISE HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC — $15,000 · HealthHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$240,000Other$230,000Religion$130,000Human Services$80,000Community Improvement$45,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Health$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSPIRIT COMMUNICATIONS INC — $100,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetHOPE MEDIA GROUP — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMASTERMEDIA MINISTRIES INC — $75,000 over 7y, 40% of budgetTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIFESAVERS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWorld Radio Network Inc — $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEED HIM NATIONAL MEDIA OUTREACH INC — $30,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPENFOLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWay Media Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORS NOURISHING NEIGHBORS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBella House Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMercy House Ministries Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAGAPE RESOURCE & ASSISTANCE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIOLAS HOUSE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH COMMUNICATIONS CORP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FOR THE HEART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Thomas FoundationW P & Bulah Luse Foun…The Dallas FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…North Texas Food BankTexas Women's Foundat…Hillcrest FoundationThe Prayer ClosetEpiscopal Health Foun…Coserv Charitable Fou…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX36× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Thomas Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · North Texas Food Bank · Texas Women's Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Prayer Closet · Episcopal Health Foundation Of Dallas · Coserv Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Research Educational Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Research Educational Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Research Educational Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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