· Private foundation
The Chambless Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURNING POINT USA INC | $50,000 |
| STATE FAIR OF TEXAS | $41,700 |
| SOUL HARVEST MISSIONS INC | $12,000 |
| TOWARD JERUSALEM COUNCIL II | $10,000 |
| MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TJToward Jerusalem Council II5× · 2021–2025 · $79k · revenue +86%
- ATActs Today Ministries International3× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +60%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC2× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- GCGATEWAY CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $9k
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +28%
- HSHOPE SUPPLY COone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -3%
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.
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.
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To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Empowering everyday leaders with courage, tools and hope to ignite a revival of christian leadership.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 STATE FAIR OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Toward Jerusalem Council II ↗
- Who funds Acts Today Ministries International ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOPE SUPPLY CO ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chambless Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chambless Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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