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THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION FOUNDATION

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Education$5.5MHuman Services$185kPhilanthropy$105kHealth$95kArts & Culture$75kYouth Development$67kReligion$40kOther$3.2M
02FY2025 · 22 grants

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
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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.

area typical 10%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 14%OUR CALLING: $30k → 14%OUR CALLING: $20k → 14%OUR CALLING: $15k → 14%OUR CALLING: $10k → 14%OUR CALLING: $10k → 14%OUR CALLING: $10k → 14%OUR CALLING: $10k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.9M · 22 repeat orgs$298k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
12

Total granted

$8.9M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+7%

Still filing today

45%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthReligionOther

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

  • DB
    DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +39%
  • AC
    AUSTIN COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +12%
  • OI
    OURCALLING INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +237%

Funded once

  • DS
    DALLAS SKIN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $21k
  • BB
    BROTHER BILLS HELPING HANDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +38%
  • MS
    MEDICAL SALES COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $11k

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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Criswell College

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.

Education
3
Houston Christian University

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."

4
Dallas Theological Seminary

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.

Education
5
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
6
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
7
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
8
Hardin-Simmons University

The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.

Education
9
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
East Texas Baptist University

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…

Education
11
Kingdom Advisors Inc

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…

Religion
12
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $4,333,217 · EducationDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITYAUSTIN COLLEGE — $1,171,000 · EducationAUSTIN COLLEGE+2 more — $30,000 · EducationPARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCH — $2,335,000 · OtherPARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCHINTERNATIONAL CHURCH ASSOCIATION — $164,995 · OtherTEXAS AM UNIVERSITY — $140,530 · Other+26 more — $530,523 · Other+26 moreOURCALLING INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesWHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $95,000 · HealthDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $64,513 · Arts & CultureNew Song Community Choir — $10,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG LIFE — $47,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERCY STREET — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFINISHING WELL MINISTRIES — $40,000 · Religion
Education$5,534,217Other$3,171,048Human Services$185,000Philanthropy$105,000Health$95,000Arts & Culture$74,513Youth Development$67,000Religion$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $4,333,217 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE — $1,171,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetOURCALLING INC — $105,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetHEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $95,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $64,513 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $47,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFINISHING WELL MINISTRIES — $40,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetMERCY STREET — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE HIGHLANDS WOMEN'S LEAGUE — $20,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSamford University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Song Community Choir — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION FOUNDATION?

    Find your warmest path to THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION FOUNDATION through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 43 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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