· Public charity
Council for Life
To empower women, men and youth to make life affirming choices.
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
- $10k–50k15 grants · $505k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Youth Equipped to Succeed | $106,000 |
| REAL OPTIONS FOR WOMEN | $100,000 |
| MID CITIES WOMENS CENTER | $100,000 |
| PREBORN | $100,000 |
| Live Action | $88,000 |
| BELLA HOUSE | $80,000 |
| CARE NET | $80,000 |
| Fort Worth Pregnancy Center | $75,000 |
| BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY | $75,000 |
| PRESTONWOOD PREGNANCY CENTER | $73,000 |
| HOPE WOMENS CENTER | $71,915 |
| METROPLEX WOMENS CENTER | $69,840 |
| THRIVE WOMENS CLINIC | $69,000 |
| PREGNANCY HELP4U INC | $66,897 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIFE | $65,000 |
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, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.
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.
50 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- YEYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED8× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +234%
- DLDALLAS LIFE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $470k · revenue +87%
- ROREAL OPTIONS7× · 2018–2025 · $418k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- TTTRANS TO DESIGNATED RESERVESone grant, 2018 · $175k
- SPSouthwest Pregnancy Servicesone grant, 2018 · $57k
- VHVIOLAS HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +269%
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.
The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.
To provide support for pregnant women
To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.
Our mission is to affirm the value of life by providing a network of care. We strive to empower mothers and fathers experiencing planned and unplanned pregnancies with healthy options through medical services, education, mentoring and…
The center provides free pregnancy tests, limited o.b. ultrasounds, non- professional peer counseling, free literature & brochures on topics related to pregnancy and spiritual issues, emergency support for clients in the form of maternity…
Lifes optins pregnancy center is a christian non profit ministry that exists to help pregnant women before, during and after pregnancy with pregnancy tests, ultrasounds and support, parenting classes and free baby items from kids closet.
Non-profit medical clinic educating and equipping individuals to make empowered decisions, providing pregnancy confirmation, and offering programs of prevention, intervention, and restoration.
It is our mission to provide women with medical care and alternatives to abortion as we proclaim the hope of the Gospel.
Pregnancy Resources' mission is to inspire hope and unconditionally love everyone we serve by empowering them to thrive through compassionate support and positive solutions.
Pregnancy center dedicated to protecting the sanctity of human life.
To provide support to unplanned pregnancies.
The Womens Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered ministry designed to engage and inform women in unplanned pregnancies, empowering them to make life-affirming decisions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Council for Life Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 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 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 71 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 YOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds REAL OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center of Lake Ray Hubbard Area ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HELP 4U INC ↗
- Who funds MID-CITIES PREGNANCY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Works For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WATERMARK HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Bella House Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HELPERS OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds IN MY SHOES INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Embrace Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center of GP ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Hope Womens Center ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VITAE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Fort Worth Pro-Life Ministries ↗
- Who funds Embrace Waiting Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Abel Speaks ↗
- Who funds Vitamin Bridge ↗
- Who funds Mater Filius of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Homes of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds AIM FOR SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Lifeline ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Mission Pre-Born Inc · Vitamin Angel Alliance Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Thomas Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Hike for Life Inc · Servant Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc
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 Council for Life 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.