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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.

$28k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$600
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,691
Organizations funded a year
14 to 20
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$112k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The ACR Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationArts & CultureMembership BenefitInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$28k35%
FY202414$17k14%
FY202317$15k24%
FY202219$32k26%
FY202118$53k33%
FY202020$32kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$119kEducation$18kArts & Culture$10kHealth$8kInternational$8kHousing & Shelter$3kYouth Development$3kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Salem Lutheran Church$44,4366n/a
Scripture Awakening Inc$28,22757%
Reflective Life Ministries$10,00031%
Hargis Christian Camp Inc$8,09720%
Reliant Mission Inc$7,0504n/a
Family Legacy Missions International$6,26460%
Ballet Ensemble of Texas$5,50032%
Ligonier Ministries Inc$5,5006n/a
First Priority Global Ministries$5,00010%
The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University$4,13850%
Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The ACR Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetScripture Awakening Inc: $28,227 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetReflective Life Ministries: $10,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHargis Christian Camp Inc: $8,097 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Legacy Missions International: $6,264 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Ensemble of Texas: $5,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFirst Priority Global Ministries: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University: $4,138 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point Counseling Inc: $3,659 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGrace Valley Ministries Inc: $2,531 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTexas Academy 4: $2,078 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy House Ministries Inc: $2,045 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetConcordia Lutheran High School: $2,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBible Study Fellowship: $1,220 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc: $1,215 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMissio Christi Network: $1,037 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran World Relief Inc: $1,017 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation: $627 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Delta Gamma Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWateraid America Inc: $265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Aggie Corps of Cadets Association: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoom to Read: $252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Kindness: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to The ACR Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The ACR 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.

About The ACR Foundation

How much does The ACR Foundation give?
The ACR Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $27,733 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The ACR Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (67%), Education (10%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are The ACR Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Salem Lutheran Church ($44k), Scripture Awakening Inc ($28k), Reflective Life Ministries ($10k).
Does The ACR Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The ACR Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The ACR Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
Where is The ACR Foundation based?
The ACR Foundation is based in TX.

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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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