· Private foundation
The Najork Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $20,000 |
| Embark Ministries | $18,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $10,000 |
| Bee World | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| East West Ministries | $6,000 |
| CRU - Campus Crusade for Christ | $5,000 |
| Alice Cooper Solid Rock Foundation | $5,000 |
| Austin Street Center | $2,000 |
| Aging Mind Foundation | $2,000 |
| Armstrong Elementary School | $1,200 |
| American Cancer Society | $1,000 |
| Dec My Room | $1,000 |
| Assistance League of Dallas | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 36% of The Najork Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 59%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EMEMBARK MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +93%
Southern Methodist University4× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +37%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF REVERCHON PARKone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -98% · 97% of their budget
- MOMEN OF NEHEMIAH INCone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +12%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -8%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…
Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 46 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 EMBARK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds Biblical Education By Extension Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF REVERCHON PARK ↗
- Who funds NEXT Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds Solid Rock Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLID ROCK FOUNDATION CO ROSAMOND STANTON ↗
- Who funds MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dec My Room Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMES FOR ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Rowling Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Dallas Seminary Foundation · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Najork Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Najork Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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