· Private foundation
The Church in Your City
TO MEET PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS THROUGH CHRIST.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $424k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $943k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD | $141,644 |
| VAULT FOSTERING COMMUNITY | $100,000 |
| CURREY CREEK CHURCH | $100,000 |
| MOMENT OF TRUTH MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $70,000 |
| TRANSFORMATION HOUSE | $70,000 |
| DUTTON BOYS TRUST | $60,000 |
| LIFE STREAM | $51,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| KENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER | $50,000 |
| FRONTIER ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| STILL WATER CAMPS | $40,000 |
| TAKING IT TO THE STREETS | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 24 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $359k 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
- HCHILL COUNTRY PREGNANCY CARE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +76%
- KCKENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER9× · 2017–2025 · $550k · revenue +185%
- HCHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD6× · 2017–2025 · $545k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- NJNEW JERUSALEM MISSIONSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue +238% · 75% of their budget
- FLFREEDOM LEGACY INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +134%
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.
To be an organization where people are excited to assist in the love and care of the orphan and those in foster care, as well as providing temporary housing and training for those in the worldwide missionary field.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Cowboy at the cross ministries is an evangelical, outreach ministry. gathering strays, allowing god to change our ways, to walk in truth and holiness.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ruah Retreat At the River. 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 18 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 11% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 98 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 MOMENT OF TRUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds Transformation House ↗
- Who funds LIFESTREAM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Frontier Alliance International Inc ↗
- Who funds MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAULT FOSTERING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds STILL WATER CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERUSALEM MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds The Orphanetwork ↗
- Who funds TAKING IT TO THE STREETS ↗
- Who funds Forever Cowboys Ministries ↗
- Who funds The Hangar ↗
- Who funds CATTLE FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Cb and Anita Branch Trust James L Drought Trustee · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · White Hat Foundation · Stuart Griffin Perlitz Foundation · The Gvtc Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment 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 Church in Your City 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.
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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