· Private foundation
THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION 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 $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 |
| DENISON MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| TEXAS AM COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| US AVIATION ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MERCY STREET | $10,000 |
| FINISHING WELL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 43 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 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 LAKE HIGHLANDS WOMEN'S LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MERCY STREET ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds New Song Community Choir ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION FOUNDATION funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from THE NATION FOUNDATION formerly known as JAMES AND SALLY NATION FOUNDATION. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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