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The Vicky and Tim Harkins Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Vicky and Tim Harkins Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$186kInternational$9kHuman Services$7kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kEducation$2kPublic Benefit$1kHealth$500
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$479k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROVIDENCE CHURCH$16,500
MISSION GO - USA$2,500
FRIENDS OF THE GREAT COMMISSION$2,400
LIGONIER MINISTRIES$1,500
RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH (RREACH)$1,500
CARE & SHINE FOUNDATION$1,500
GRACE TO YOU$1,500
PIONEER BIBLE TRANSLATOR$1,200
CHRISTAR INTERNATIONAL INC$1,200
ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS$1,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PROVIDENCE CHURCH: $25k → 5%SHERMAN BIBLE CHURCH: $5k → 11%INDIAN CREEK FIRE DEPARTMENT AUXILIARY: $3k → 13%DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $2k → 14%ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS: $1k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE GREAT COMMISSION: $5k → 13%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $2k → 9%PROVIDENCE CHURCH - FRISCO: $25k → 5%TRUE OPTIONS: $3k → 11%DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $1k → 14%ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS: $1k → 16%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $2k → 9%PROVIDENCE CHURCH - FRISCO: $25k → 5%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH: $3k → 11%DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $1k → 14%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $1k → 9%PROVIDENCE CHURCH: $17k → 5%TRUE OPTIONS: $1k → 11%RREACH INTERNATIONAL: $28k → 14%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $1k → 9%CARE & SHINE FOUNDATION: $2k → 5%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH: $1k → 11%RREACH INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%CARE & SHINE FOUNDATION: $2k → 5%TRUE OPTIONS: $1k → 11%RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH: $3k → 14%HOME HOSPICE OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $500 → 11%RREACH INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 14%RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH (RREACH): $2k → 14%RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH (RREACH): $2k → 14%RREACH INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 14%PIONEER BIBLE TRANSLATOR: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
CO
MO
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$185k · 16 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$185k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+12%

Still filing today

31%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RR
    RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +13%
  • FO
    Friends of the Great Commission
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +43%
  • DT
    Dallas Theological Seminary
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • LH
    LIVING HOPE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -12%
  • SB
    SHERMAN BIBLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE GREAT COMMISSION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Grace Global Ministries Inc

Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.

International
2
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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5
InitiativeGlobal

To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.

Religion
6
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
7
Reaching Souls International Inc

Our mission is in our name - Reaching Souls. Our core driving force, the reason we exist as an organization, is to reach souls for Christ. Our strategic purpose is to reach the maximum number of people for Christ in the least amount of…

Religion
8
I58 Global

i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.

Human Services
9
E3 Partners Ministry

e3 Partners Ministry (e3) endeavors to equip believers worldwide with tools and training designed to help evangelize their communities in order to establish thriving churches.

Religion
10
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
11
Mission Global Usa

(1) To glorify God by making disciples everywhere by proclaiming and practicing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. (2) To engage in international world mission activities in order to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ…

Philanthropy
12
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Great Commission; the most unlike its peers is Care & Shine Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROVIDENCE CHURCH - FRISCO: $50,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE CHURCH - FRISCOPROVIDENCE CHURCH: $41,500 · OtherPROVIDENCE CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $37,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRACE TO YOU: $7,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $6,900 · Other+11 more: $34,700 · Other+11 moreLIVING HOPE MINISTRIES: $6,000 · ReligionLIVING HOPE M…RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH: $5,500 · ReligionRAMESH RICHAR…Friends of the Great Commission: $4,800 · ReligionFriends of th…Ligonier Ministries Inc: $4,500 · ReligionLigonier Mini…GLOBAL OUTREACH MISSION INC: $1,500 · ReligionGLOBAL OUTREA…CHRISTAR INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,200 · ReligionPioneer Bible Translators: $1,200 · ReligionDallas Theological Seminary: $3,900 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationCare & Shine Foundation: $3,000 · Arts & CultureALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $2,400 · International
Other$177,100Religion$24,700Education$5,400Arts & Culture$3,000International$2,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIVING HOPE MINISTRIES: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Great Commission: $4,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $3,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCare & Shine Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL OUTREACH MISSION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTAR INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPioneer Bible Translators: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME HOSPICE OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LIVING HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Great Commission ↗
  • Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
  • Who funds Care & Shine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTAR INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
  • Who funds HOME HOSPICE OF GRAYSON COUNTY 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.

Christian Community F…Texas Instruments Fou…Servant FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…Communities Foundatio…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Vicky and Tim Harkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vicky and Tim Harkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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