· Private foundation
Walter Christian Development 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON | $400,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY GREATER HOUSTON AREA | $375,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $250,000 |
| PULSE OUTREACH | $250,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE MISSION | $100,000 |
| HOUSTON FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its 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.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- POPULSE OUTREACH4× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +8%
HOPE INTERNATIONAL4× · 2020–2024 · $850k · revenue +56%- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- EEdifygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +95%
- HMHOPE MEDIA GROUPone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +20%
- SWSTILL WATER CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +18%
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.
The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…
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."
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.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Provide teaching of the word of god and religious music.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
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.
To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walter Christian Development Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter Christian Development Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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