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Serving Grace 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.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$46kReligion$44kYouth Development$24kHuman Services$15kCrime & Legal$7kFood & Nutrition$4kInternational$3kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$11,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$505k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PETERSON HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
HILL COUNTRY BIBLE CHURCH$11,500
BACKPACK FRIENDS INCORPORATED$3,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$2,865
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $10k → 6%YMCA OF AUSTIN: $2k → 10%BACKPACK FRIENDS INCORPORATED: $3k → 10%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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$98k · 5 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$98k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+28%

Still filing today

60%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PH
    PETERSON HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +146%
  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY BIBLE CHURCH
    7× · 2018–2024 · $44k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION
    2× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • YF
    YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +117%
  • TB
    TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +41%
  • TS
    THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -1%
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
Children At Heart Ministries Inc

Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.

Human Services
2
Texas Baptist Children's Home and Family Services Inc

Provision and management of property on which a family of nonprofit ministries carries out programs and services for vulnerable children and families.

Human Services
3
Christus Health Foundation of Southeast Texas

Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.

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4
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
5
The Bair Foundation of Texas

To provide services to children, youth, and families along with a child-placing agency. to provide therapeutic foster care.

Human Services
6
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
7
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
8
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
9
Christus St Michael Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of advancing, promoting, and supporting the health care ministries of those religious congregations (the "sponsoring…

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10
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
11
Children's Connections Inc

Children's connections' mission is to empower families, promote healthy early childhood development, and foster family engagement to ensure a strong foundation for lifelong well-being.

Human Services
12
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Baptist Children's Home Inc; the most unlike its peers is Backpack Friends Incorporated. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILL COUNTRY BIBLE CHURCH: $43,688 · OtherHILL COUNTRY BIBLE CHURCH+9 more: $6,330 · Other+9 morePETERSON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthPETERSON HEALTH FOUNDATIONYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR TOMOR…TEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS BAPTI…BACKPACK FRIENDS INCORPORATED: $3,000 · Human ServicesBACKPACK FR…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $2,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S…CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $6,500 · Crime & LegalTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST: $3,000 · PhilanthropyHILL COUNTRY CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,150 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,865 · Religion
Other$50,018Health$45,000Youth Development$20,000Human Services$15,000Crime & Legal$6,500Philanthropy$4,150Religion$2,865

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 budgetPETERSON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBACKPACK FRIENDS INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,865 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $1,248 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILL COUNTRY CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,150 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAustin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Central Texas Communi…Austin Community Foun…United Way WorldwideThe Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Central Texas Community FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Texas Community Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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 Serving Grace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Serving Grace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 19 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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