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The ACR Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Scripture Awakening | $7,691 |
| Salem Lutheran Church | $5,110 |
| Texas Youth Summit | $2,084 |
| Concordia Lutheran High School | $2,030 |
| Storehouse Plano | $1,612 |
| Hargis Christian Camp | $1,552 |
| Holy Cross Lutheran Church | $1,541 |
| Ligonier Ministries | $1,200 |
| Family Legacy | $864 |
| Turning Point Ministries | $600 |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | $526 |
| Assoc of Former Students | $500 |
| St Jude Hospital for Children | $500 |
| Texas AM Foundation | $500 |
| Texas Aggie Corps of Cadets Organiz | $335 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SASCRIPTURE AWAKENING INC5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +9%
- RLReflective Life Ministries3× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +13%
- BEBallet Ensemble of Texas3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- SLSalem Lutheran Schoolone grant, 2020 · $5k
- FPFIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
- TATEXAS ACADEMY 4graduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +171%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
To preach and propogate the gospel of jesus christ in the united states and throughout the world, to provide christian literature and training materials through various forms of media, and to offer christian leadership and discipleship…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bible Study Fellowship and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Ensemble of Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 44 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.
- Who funds SCRIPTURE AWAKENING INC ↗
- Who funds Reflective Life Ministries ↗
- Who funds HARGIS CHRISTIAN CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds Ballet Ensemble of Texas ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds GRACE VALLEY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ACADEMY 4 ↗
- Who funds Mercy House Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSIO CHRISTI NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS AGGIE CORPS OF CADETS ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 The ACR Foundation 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
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.
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