Texas · Private foundation
The Prayer Closet
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $138k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Prayer Closet funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $138k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $161k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $132k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $160k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $177k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $203k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $188k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $200k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helping Hand Home for Children Inc | $130,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lifesavers Foundation | $125,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Dallas Theological Seminary | $92,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Dallas Life Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 1% |
| East Texas Crisis Center Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Samaritan Inn Inc | $65,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Trinity Christian Academy | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alive at Last | $57,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $45,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($377k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Prayer Closet supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Research Educational Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Thomas Foundation · North Texas Food Bank · Coserv Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About The Prayer Closet
- How much does The Prayer Closet give?
- The Prayer Closet reported 16 grants totaling $137,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Prayer Closet fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), International (18%), Religion (16%).
- Who are The Prayer Closet's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Helping Hand Home for Children Inc ($130k), Lifesavers Foundation ($125k), Samaritan's Purse ($95k).
- Does The Prayer Closet fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Prayer Closet accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Prayer Closet?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation, The Dallas Foundation.
- Where is The Prayer Closet based?
- The Prayer Closet is based in TX.
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