Texas · Nonprofit
40 DAYS FOR LIFE
40 DAYS FOR LIFE (Texas) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,947,577 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,461,191). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $15M
What 40 Days for Life does
Mission
40 Days for Life focuses on education, equipping, and training local communities to pray and fast, do community outreach, and hold peaceful vigils to offer loving alternatives to women who are pregnant.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Campaigns, projects, and promotions:includes peaceful, lawful prayer vigils/campaigns; and related projects that support and fund the vigils/campaigns and their leaders and participants, including: media projects, such as movies, podcasts, magazines and books; vigil/campaign and promotions; merchandising of 40 Days for Life signs and gear that support and promote vigils/campaigns; leader trainings; and leader support including legal.
$3,078,901 spent$223,494 earned by the program44% of program spendingEducation:includes trainings, symposia, workshops, pamphlets, podcasts, webcasts, books and magazine production in order to educate the public and leaders and participants in order to promote understanding of 40dfl's mission and the harms and dangers of abortion.
$2,476,475 spentof which $4,040 as grants$1,982 earned by the program36% of program spendingLeader, recruitment, and support:includes recruitment, engagement and training of campaign leaders; overall and regional trainings workshops; symposia; and legal support.
$1,365,950 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,921,326.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8.5M to $12M (+41%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of 40 DAYS FOR LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Shawn Carney
President & CEO
Board chair
John Barnett
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $254k → $1.8M.
22 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $999k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest 40 Days for Life Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money 40 DAYS FOR LIFE raised.
From the IRS filings of 40 DAYS FOR LIFE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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
40 DAYS FOR LIFE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 40 DAYS FOR LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 35% · 2019 40% · 2020 20% · 2021 35% · 2022 29% · 2023 34% — 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
46% of 40 DAYS FOR LIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
82% of 40 DAYS FOR LIFE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.6M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.
Against its field
40 DAYS FOR LIFE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like 40 DAYS FOR LIFE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Hpcbv Properties LLC · disregarded
- Kolbe & Anthony Publishing LLC · disregarded
- 40 Days for Life Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE?
- 40 DAYS FOR LIFE (Texas) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,947,577 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,461,191). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 40 DAYS FOR LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $8,947,577 in grants to 40 DAYS FOR LIFE, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 40 DAYS FOR LIFE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,461,191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 40 DAYS FOR LIFE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 121 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing