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The Barnabas Faith Foundation at a glance

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The Barnabas Faith Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$253kEducation$215kInternational$85kYouth Development$75kArts & Culture$35kPhilanthropy$20kReligion$12kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP$12,000
YOUNG LIFE$10,000
LOVE GOD GREATLY$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%C5 FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP: $12k → 6%DALLAS STARS FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%I'M BETTER THAN THAT INC: $6k → 8%MACK JACK & MCCONAUGHEY - CHAMPIONS OFF THE FIELD: $200k → 10%ARISE AFRICA: $19k → 11%WATERMARK CHURCH: $600 → 14%THE CRU FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%YOUNG LIFE: $7k → 9%MAHAN FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SERVING HIM: $3k → 5%MACK JACK & MCCONAUGHEY - CHAMPIONS OFF THE FIELD: $24k → 10%ARISE AFRICA: $14k → 11%THRIVE WOMEN'S CLINIC: $1k → 14%THE CRU FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%YOUNG LIFE: $5k → 9%MACK JACK & MCCONAUGHEY - CHAMPIONS OFF THE FIELD: $21k → 10%ARISE AFRICA: $12k → 11%CHILDRENS MIDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $200 → 14%ARISE AFRICA: $8k → 11%ART HOUSE: $32k → 14%ARISE AFRICA: $7k → 11%ART HOUSE: $2k → 14%ARISE AFRICA: $5k → 11%HIGHLAND PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ARISE AFRICA: $5k → 11%LA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS: $2k → 14%HP FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUB: $2k → 14%PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $100k → 14%PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $100k → 14%PROVIDENCE: $1k → 14%PROVIDENCE: $1k → 14%PROVIDENCE: $300 → 14%ARISE AFRICA: $11k → 14%LOVE GOD GREATLY: $3k → 14%LOVE GOD GREATLY: $3k → 14%LOVE GOD GREATLY: $3k → 14%PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $750 → 14%PRACTICE MINISTRIES: $1k → 14%PARK CITIES PRESBYERIAN CHURCH: $200 → 14%PRACTICE MINISTRIES: $1k → 14%YMCA: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
OH
CA
CO
AZ
DC
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$1.1M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+90%

Still filing today

38%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PC
    PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +33%
  • AA
    ARISE AFRICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82k · revenue +244%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $59k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CO
    Champions Off the Fieldgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +540%
  • DS
    DALLAS STARS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -1%
  • IB
    IM BETTER THAN THAT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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2
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
3
The Greatest School in West Houston

Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from

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4
North Texas Christian Foundation

National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.

Philanthropy
5
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
6
Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
7
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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8
St Paul's United Methodist Foundation of Houston

To provide financial support to St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Houston, TX.

Religion
9
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
10
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
11
Linfield Christian School

Linfield christian school provides a college preparatory education in a caring, relational, christ-centered environment that develops and inspires students to: know jesus christ as lord; love others as themselves; and grow in knowledge and…

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12
Classical School of Dallas Inc

Classical school of dallas is a christ-centered, classical, and collaborative school which educates students in the liberal arts tradition. classical partners with families to cultivate a love of learning and jointly pursue what is true,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 28 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $255,190 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $244,530 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSMU ATHLETICS CLUB: $203,295 · OtherSMU ATHLETICS CLUBSMU MUSTANG CLUB: $36,000 · OtherART HOUSE: $33,500 · Other+10 more: $42,857 · OtherPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $200,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN…DALLAS STARS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $6,000 · EducationARISE AFRICA INC: $81,720 · InternationalServingHIM Healthcare International Ministries: $3,400 · InternationalYOUNG LIFE: $59,000 · Youth DevelopmentChampions Off the Field: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCollege Golf Fellowship: $12,000 · ReligionLOVE GOD GREATLY INC: $8,000 · ReligionPractice Ministries Inc: $2,000 · ReligionBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $200 · Health
Other$815,372Education$216,000International$85,120Youth Development$69,000Religion$22,000Health$700

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 budgetPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetARISE AFRICA INC: $81,720 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $59,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChampions Off the Field: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS STARS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOVE GOD GREATLY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetServingHIM Healthcare International Ministries: $3,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPractice Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC: $1,507 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds ARISE AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds College Golf Fellowship ↗
  • Who funds Champions Off the Field ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS STARS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVE GOD GREATLY INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ServingHIM Healthcare International Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Practice Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds LA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC ↗
  • Who funds HP FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…Community Foundation …The Pauline and Austi…Denman Family Foundat…Servant FoundationChristian Community F…Texas Instruments Fou…Zoe Grace FoundationGeorge E Seay III Fou…The Dallas FoundationRaymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX19.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Pauline and Austin Neuhoff Foundation · Denman Family Foundation · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Zoe Grace Foundation · George E Seay III Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 The Barnabas Faith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barnabas Faith 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 28 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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