· Private foundation
THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION FOUNDATION
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $2,006,782 |
| DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $805,000 |
| PARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCH | $110,000 |
| THRUST FLIGHT SCHOOL | $95,000 |
| LAKE HIGHLANDS BAPTIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $13,097 |
| US AVIATION ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| OUR CALLING | $10,000 |
| DENISON MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| TEXAS AM COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| MERCY STREET | $10,000 |
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, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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
- DBDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +39%
- ACAUSTIN COLLEGE6× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +12%
- OIOURCALLING INC7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +237%
Funded once
- DSDALLAS SKIN INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $21k
- BBBROTHER BILLS HELPING HANDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +38%
- MSMEDICAL SALES COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $11k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is New Song Community Choir. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 43 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 DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FINISHING WELL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MERCY STREET ↗
- Who funds LAKE HIGHLANDS WOMEN'S LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds New Song Community Choir ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Denman Family Foundation · Harry Bass Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION FOUNDATION 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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