· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE STOREHOUSE OF COLLIN COUNTY | $20,000 |
| THE LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $12,000 |
| HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| HARVESTERS REACHING THE NATIONS | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN INN | $10,000 |
| THRIVE WOMEN'S CLINIC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| EVANTELL | $5,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| SOULS HARBOR | $5,000 |
| ALIVE AT LAST | $5,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $5,000 |
| MISSION MASSAI | $5,000 |
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, $444k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% 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 +62% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- HHHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +62%
- LFLIFESAVERS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +164%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- ACALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACHgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +75%
- MIMABANK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +46%
- YLYOUNG LIFE GLOBAL LEADERSone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…
Biblical counseling
We aim to assist hurting women that demonstrate the desire for a life change with a helping hand up, not a hand out, through a biblically-based, Christ-centered, mentoring and discipleship program. In order to facilitate life-long change,…
The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
See Schedule O.Katy Christian Ministries (KCM) is a social service non-profit that serves the Katy/West Houston area. KCM's Social Service Department offers emergency financial assistance, a Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the…
A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.
Refuge city provides safe places for children in dallas / ft. worth (dfw) who have been sex trafficked or sexually exploited to achieve restoration, education, and reintegration in a family-focused environment through the love of jesus…
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
To operate a 30 unit permanent and temporary housing facility known as Destiny Village for rental to low income individuals and families who are survivors of domestic violence and or sexual assault
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope for the Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 48 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 HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN INN INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALIVE AT LAST ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EvanTell Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION MAASAI ↗
- Who funds FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PEACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEN COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds MABANK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREASURED VESSELS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE HEART ↗
- Who funds ARISE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
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 · 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
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 Prayer Closet 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.