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Council for Life

To empower women, men and youth to make life affirming choices.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$4.8MHuman Services$1.9MYouth Development$992kReligion$496kCivil Rights$424kHousing & Shelter$386kInternational$253kEnvironment$175kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

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
$58,710
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

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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.

area typical 10%DEEP ROOTS MINISTRIES: $24k → 5%Foster Love Bell County: $13k → 14%COMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO: $30k → 16%CHRISTIAN HOMES & FAMILY SERV: $26k → 16%PREBORN: $100k → 16%DEEP ROOTS MINISTRIES: $24k → 5%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY: $75k → 14%CHRISTIAN HOMES & FAMILY SERV: $18k → 16%PREBORN: $100k → 16%Gladney Center For Adoption: $25k → 11%CHRISTIAN HOMES & FAMILY SERV: $18k → 16%CHRISTIAN HOMES & FAMILY SERV: $12k → 16%BELLA HOUSE: $80k → 5%COMMUNITY DOULAS OF WACO: $20k → 16%BELLA HOUSE: $40k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $25k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $25k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $25k → 5%BELLA HOUSE: $20k → 5%HOPE WOMENS CENTER: $72k → 5%Hope Womens Center: $42k → 5%Hope Womens Center: $32k → 5%BRAVELOVE: $15k → 14%VIOLAS HOUSE: $50k → 14%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $60k → 11%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $57k → 11%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $26k → 11%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $26k → 11%EMBRACE GRACE INC: $23k → 11%CHRISTIAN WORKS FOR CHILDREN: $62k → 14%CHRISTIANWORKS FOR CHILDREN: $60k → 14%CHRISTIAN WORKS FOR CHILDREN: $58k → 14%CHRISTIAN WORKS FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 14%LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY: $60k → 14%Buckner International: $60k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $27k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%Buckner International: $25k → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.0M · 50 repeat orgs$827k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
16

Total granted

$9.0M
$635k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+60%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
Human ServicesHealthReligionCivil RightsInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • YE
    YOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED
    8× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +234%
  • DL
    DALLAS LIFE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $470k · revenue +87%
  • RO
    REAL OPTIONS
    7× · 2018–2025 · $418k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • TT
    TRANS TO DESIGNATED RESERVES
    one grant, 2018 · $175k
  • SP
    Southwest Pregnancy Services
    one grant, 2018 · $57k
  • VH
    VIOLAS HOUSEgraduated
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Pregnancy Care Center

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.

2
Life Choices Care Center

To provide support for pregnant women

Health
3
Life Choice Care Center Inc

To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.

Human Services
4
Pregnancy Centers of Middle Tennessee Inc

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…

Health
5
Life Choices Pregnancy Care Center Inc

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…

Health
6
Lifes Options Pregnancy Center

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.

Health
7
Life Choices Crisis Pregnancy Supp

Non-profit medical clinic educating and equipping individuals to make empowered decisions, providing pregnancy confirmation, and offering programs of prevention, intervention, and restoration.

Health
8
Alternatives Pregnancy Center

It is our mission to provide women with medical care and alternatives to abortion as we proclaim the hope of the Gospel.

9
Pregnancy Resources of Abilene Inc

Pregnancy Resources' mission is to inspire hope and unconditionally love everyone we serve by empowering them to thrive through compassionate support and positive solutions.

Civil Rights
10
A Woman's Choice

Pregnancy center dedicated to protecting the sanctity of human life.

11
Lifechoice Pregnancy Care Center

To provide support to unplanned pregnancies.

12
Education for Life Inc

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.

Health

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr17%12%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr9%27%35–55yr15%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%4%<5yr17%6%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr9%28%35–55yr15%11%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
16%
6,557/41,351

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
39/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DALLAS LIFE INC — $469,780 · OtherDALLAS LIFE INCCATHOLIC CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF DALLAS — $427,915 · OtherCATHOLIC CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF DALL…PRESTONWOOD CARING PEOPLE NETWORK — $353,000 · OtherPRESTONWOOD CARING PEOPLE NETWORKTHE CATHOLIC PRO-LIFE COMMUNITY INC — $308,090 · OtherTHE CATHOLIC PRO-LIFE COMMUNITY INCHOPE WOMENS CENTER — $233,230 · OtherHOPE WOMENS CENTERST JOSEPH'S HELPERS OF DALLAS INC — $214,542 · OtherST JOSEPH'S HELPERS OF DALLAS INCTRANS TO DESIGNATED RESERVES — $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $145,700 · OtherVITAE FOUNDATION — $125,750 · OtherGreater Fort Worth Pro-Life Ministries — $124,015 · Other+17 more — $1,007,603 · Other+17 moreYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED — $524,836 · Human ServicesYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEEDChristian Works For Children Inc — $230,300 · Human ServicesChristian Works For Children …Bella House Inc — $215,000 · Human ServicesBella House IncIN MY SHOES INC — $213,710 · Human ServicesIN MY SHOES INCMission Pre-Born Inc — $200,000 · Human ServicesMission Pre-Born IncEmbrace Grace Inc — $192,561 · Human ServicesEmbrace Grace IncBRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC — $180,840 · Human ServicesBRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INCBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL — $167,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER INTERNATIONALHope Womens Center — $145,225 · Human ServicesHope Womens CenterBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $135,000 · Human ServicesChristian Homes of Abilene Inc — $94,675 · Human Services+9 more — $339,500 · Human Services+9 moreREAL OPTIONS — $417,796 · HealthREAL OPTIONSPregnancy Resource Center of Lake Ray Hubbard Area — $361,600 · HealthPregnancy Resource Center o…PREGNANCY HELP 4U INC — $317,689 · HealthPREGNANCY HELP 4U INCARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $225,840 · HealthARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER …WATERMARK HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $215,000 · HealthWATERMARK HEALTH A NONPROFI…FORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER — $197,884 · HealthFORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY…WRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook — $176,378 · HealthWRC Pregnancy Center of Ell…Pregnancy Resource Center of GP — $166,500 · HealthPregnancy Resource Center o…Abel Speaks — $121,340 · HealthVitamin Bridge — $110,000 · Health+3 more — $155,021 · Health+3 moreStudents for Life of America Inc — $170,000 · Civil RightsLIVE ACTION — $88,000 · Civil RightsCare Net — $80,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $12,000 · Civil RightsMID-CITIES PREGNANCY CARE INC — $272,000 · ReligionTHEOLOGY OF THE BODY EVANGELIZATION — $49,600 · ReligionLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $16,500 · Religion+1 more — $10,000 · ReligionYOUNG LIFE — $325,393 · Youth DevelopmentBLESSINGS INTERNATIONAL — $153,000 · InternationalEmbrace Waiting Children Inc — $122,640 · International
Other$3,584,625Human Services$2,638,647Health$2,465,048Civil Rights$350,000Religion$348,100Youth Development$325,393International$275,640

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUTH EQUIPPED TO SUCCEED — $524,836 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetDALLAS LIFE INC — $469,780 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF DALLAS — $427,915 over 8y, 18% of budgetREAL OPTIONS — $417,796 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center of Lake Ray Hubbard Area — $361,600 over 8y, 11% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $325,393 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY HELP 4U INC — $317,689 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetMID-CITIES PREGNANCY CARE INC — $272,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetChristian Works For Children Inc — $230,300 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetARLINGTON PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $225,840 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWATERMARK HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $215,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBella House Inc — $215,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HELPERS OF DALLAS INC — $214,542 over 5y, 12% of budgetIN MY SHOES INC — $213,710 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetFORT WORTH CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER — $197,884 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetEmbrace Grace Inc — $192,561 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBRIDGES SAFEHOUSE INC — $180,840 over 4y, 14% of budgetWRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook — $176,378 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc — $170,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL — $167,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center of GP — $166,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetBLESSINGS INTERNATIONAL — $153,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHope Womens Center — $145,225 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $135,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVITAE FOUNDATION — $125,750 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGreater Fort Worth Pro-Life Ministries — $124,015 over 4y, 16% of budgetEmbrace Waiting Children Inc — $122,640 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetAbel Speaks — $121,340 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetVitamin Bridge — $110,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMater Filius of Dallas Inc — $95,278 over 2y, 35% of budgetChristian Homes of Abilene Inc — $94,675 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAIM FOR SUCCESS INC — $92,970 over 3y, 15% of budgetPregnancy Lifeline — $90,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCare Net — $80,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmira's House — $77,972 over 3y, 16% of budgetMercy House Ministries Inc — $76,800 over 3y, 14% of budgetCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetNIGHTLIGHT CHRISTIAN ADOPTIONS — $65,715 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $60,021 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCommunity Doulas of Waco — $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetVIOLAS HOUSE — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHEOLOGY OF THE BODY EVANGELIZATION — $49,600 over 1y, 11% of budgetDEEP ROOTS MINISTRIES INC — $48,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTOGETHER FOR GOOD — $39,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIFESAVERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLifeTalk Resource Center — $20,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budget
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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX56.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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