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Wentz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
- $250k+1 grant · $370k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURNING POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH | $370,000 |
| TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $59,000 |
| PARKRIDGE | $49,500 |
| PIONEERS | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL GOSPEL MINISTRY | $17,400 |
| ARTISTS FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORM | $12,400 |
| UNPACK MINISTRIES | $8,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,200 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| LUBBOCK IMPACT | $5,000 |
| REDEEMER CHURCH OF LUBBOCK | $4,840 |
| CHOSEN PEOPLE MINISTRIES | $2,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $1,200 |
| CORRIE TEN BOOM FELLOWSHIP INC | $1,200 |
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 (FY23–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TPTurning Point for God3× · 2021–2023 · $215k · revenue +26%
- PAPHYSICIANS AIDING PHYSICIANS ABROAD3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +75%
- LILUBBOCK IMPACT INC3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- ARALAMO RANCH COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $50k
- PCPLAINVIEW CHRISTIAN ACADEMYINCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -71%
- JMJOHN MACARTHUR CHARITABLE TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $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.
To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.
At Prepare our goal is to prepare every saint to meet the Lord on His day of appearing. To stand before Him with no regret. We seek to raise up an authentic witness of Jesus on earth. We seek to do this through supporting church planters,…
The Mission of Pressing Pause is to build purposeful people who think well lead well and love well. Our vision is to see a changed life change lives.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Legacy disciple organizes conferences to encourage, equip and empower everyday christians to be disciples who make disciples for christ. we accomplish this mission through creative conferences, quality content and broad collaboration.
Training pastors and leaders in christian faith
Biblical counseling
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.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Identity Hoops International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 43 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 TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Turning Point for God ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS AIDING PHYSICIANS ABROAD ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds PLAINVIEW CHRISTIAN ACADEMYINC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Seed Planting Team ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SCHOOL CHAPLAIN ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds GHB3 BOOM ↗
- Who funds CORRIE TEN BOOM FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC ↗
- Who funds Prepare International ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY HOOPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Wentz Family Foundation 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.
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