Texas · Nonprofit
311 Ministries
311 Ministries (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,726 to it, the largest being SCHARBAUER FOUNDATION INC ($407,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
311 Ministries is better cushioned than half of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Yarborough Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- United Way of Midland Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- United Way of Odessa Incshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
125% of 311 Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $35k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 311 Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
311 Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 71% · 2019 58% · 2020 50% · 2021 75% · 2022 69% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
17% of 311 Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of 311 Ministries's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Yarborough Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchTX · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Midland Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchTX · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Odessa Incshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- JC Ferguson Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Helen Greathouse Charitable Trustshared funderslocalMO · backs 90 organizations that share your funders · funds 60 organizations near you
- Hext Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christian Mission Concernsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cabe Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rick Caywood Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sower of Seeds International Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fmh Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 77 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you
- Hahl Proctor Charitable Trustshared funderslocalTX · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 15 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like 311 Ministries
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 311 Ministries: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds 311 Ministries?
- 311 Ministries (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,726 to it, the largest being SCHARBAUER FOUNDATION INC ($407,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 311 Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $730,726 in grants to 311 Ministries, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 311 Ministries?
- SCHARBAUER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $407,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 311 Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing