· Private foundation
Texas Baptist Deaf Ministry
TO FURTHER SOUTHERN BAPTIST MINISTRY AND DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONS FOR MINISTRY AND LEADERSHIP TO THE DEAF COMMUNITY THROUGH SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, AND OTHER MEANS.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOSHUA BRUFFEY TO MIDWESTERN BAPTIS | $13,826 |
| DAKOTA HILL TO GRAND CANYON UNVERSI | $13,300 |
| KEVLASHA HUMPHREY FOR DALLAS THEOLO | $10,000 |
| KINNA KESTERSON TO HARDIN-SIMMONS U | $8,000 |
| CAMP DEAF BY WAY OF NEW LIFE DEAF FELLOWSHIP | $3,500 |
| RYAN SIMS FOR THE LEAD PROGRAM | $900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $831 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Texas Baptist Deaf Ministry’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
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
- NLNEW LIFE BAPTIST DEAF FELLOWSHIP3× · 2019–2021 · $52k
- ADAMARILLO DEAF CHURCH3× · 2019–2021 · $30k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH3× · 2019–2021 · $25k
Funded once
- FDFAMILY DEAF CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2019–2022.
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 2019–2022, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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