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Zoe Grace 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.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$140kEducation$50kSocial Science$47kInternational$7kRecreation & Sports$7kReligion$6kCivil Rights$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$338k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Council for Life$15,000
World Africa Council$5,000
Salvation Army-Eschkelon$5,000
One Hundred Shares Dallas$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Lavida Orphan Care: $2k → 5%Council for Life: $16k → 14%Council for Life: $16k → 14%Council for Life: $15k → 14%Council for Life: $11k → 14%Council for Life: $11k → 14%Council for Life: $11k → 14%Council for Life: $11k → 14%Parent Compass: $2k → 14%Parent Compass: $250 → 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
MA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
TN
TX
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$189k · 14 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
28

Total granted

$189k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
+40%

Still filing today

43%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
EducationHuman ServicesReligionInternationalRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR LIFE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +257%
  • CC
    CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +136%
  • LF
    LA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $3k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +40%
  • EF
    EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -46%
  • HC
    Harvard College
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
2
Dallas Christian School

Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.

Education
3
The Greatest School in West Houston

Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from

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4
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
5
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
6
Central Texas Christian School Inc

To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.

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7
The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…

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8
Fort Worth Christain School Inc

Fort worth christian school is a christ-centered community where every child is loved, valued, taught excellence in and out of the classroom, and empowered by a biblical worldview for a lifetime of faith and service.

Education
9
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
10
San Antonio Christian School

Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…

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11
Pinnacle Christian School

Pinnacle Christian School serves to meet the education needs of families in the greater Parker County area by providing complete, advanced, Bible-based academic K-8th grade instruction taught by highly-qualified teachers on Tuesdays and…

Education
12
Trinity Christian School Inc

To partner with parents to provide christ-centered, biblically based, classical education that nurtures the whole child.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Christian Academy; the most unlike its peers is Armstrong Bradfield Preschool Association. 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

19 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. 19 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Liberty Institute: $46,400 · OtherLiberty InstituteSt Mark's Fund: $20,000 · OtherSt Mark's FundHarvard College: $10,000 · OtherHarvard CollegeMercy Street West Dallas: $7,500 · OtherMercy Street West DallasMiscellaneous Charities-small amoun: $6,382 · OtherCrystal Charity: $5,000 · OtherSalvation Army-Eschkelon: $5,000 · OtherSusan B Anthony Pro-Life: $5,000 · OtherWorld Africa Council: $5,000 · Other+19 more: $22,281 · Other+19 moreCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $89,250 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR LIFE+2 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationTRINITY CHRISTIA…EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $10,175 · EducationEDUCATIONAL FIRS…CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY: $8,650 · EducationCORNERSTONE CROS…+4 more: $1,350 · EducationWAPIYAPI: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsYOUNG LIFE: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE HUNDRED SHARES DALLAS INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyRECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $500 · ReligionSEAN FEUCHT MINISTRIES INC: $500 · ReligionARISE AFRICA INC: $100 · InternationalCHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $100 · International
Other$132,563Human Services$93,250Education$40,175Recreation & Sports$6,000Youth Development$2,000Philanthropy$1,000Religion$1,000International$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $89,250 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $10,175 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY: $8,650 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWAPIYAPI: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC: $3,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIVADA ORPHAN CARE INC: $2,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT COMPASS INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetONE HUNDRED SHARES DALLAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEAN FEUCHT MINISTRIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL PTA: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARISE AFRICA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $100 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 COUNCIL FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WAPIYAPI ↗
  • Who funds LA FIESTA DE LAS SEIS BANDERAS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVADA ORPHAN CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds PARENT COMPASS INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE HUNDRED SHARES DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds RECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SEAN FEUCHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL PTA ↗
  • Who funds ARISE AFRICA 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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX27.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Denman Family Foundation · The Dan and Martha Lou Beaird Foundation · Merrick Family Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pauline and Austin Neuhoff Foundation

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 Zoe Grace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zoe Grace 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
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Zoe Grace Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Zoe Grace Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 45 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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