Texas · Nonprofit
Center for Christian Growth Inc
Center for Christian Growth Inc (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,807,887 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,083,099). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Center for Christian Growth Inc does
Mission
The mission of t bar m camps is to present jesus christ teach his ways and represent him through an exciting enthusiastic and encouraging camp and retreat experience
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
T bar m camps are faith-based christian-focused adventure camp that conducts four different types of weekly camps over 11 summer weeks. Bible study and other practical life-skill programs materials and experiences are provided before during and after camp for purpose of camper growth and development - spiritually emotionally physically and relationally. The four primary camps include two overnight camps and two day camps. Overnight camps include camp travis teen-age camp ages 13-17 and base camp ages 7-12. Day camps include new braunfels day camp kindergarten - 4th grade and discover camp a mobile camps that travels to different weekly cities kindergarten - 4th grade.
$8,025,698 spentof which $32,500 as grants$8,012,426 earned by the program85% of program spendingT bar m retreats offers a year-round hospitality platform for purpose of organizational retreats. Our retreats and conference center can accomodate a range of guests from school youth to adults. Additionally we offer an educational and leadership development program designed for all types of organizations looking to build teams through initiative games and both high and low ropes activities. Organizations include but are not limited to churches companies schools youth groups non-profits hospitals and associations for the purpose of doing off-site retreats and programs. In 2024 over 120 organizations involving thousands of guests utilized t bar m retreats for their organizational growth and development.
$1,451,705 spent$1,813,779 earned by the program15% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,477,403.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $23M to $28M (+21%).
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 11% · 2021 10% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Jack Turpin
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $32k → $754k.
11 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Center for Christian Growth Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Center for Christian Growth Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 Center for Christian Growth Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 39% · 2019 44% · 2020 79% · 2021 48% · 2022 46% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of Center for Christian Growth Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
57% of Center for Christian Growth Inc'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 $2.5M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like Center for Christian Growth Inc
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 Center for Christian Growth Inc: 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 Center for Christian Growth Inc?
- Center for Christian Growth Inc (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,807,887 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,083,099). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Center for Christian Growth Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $5,807,887 in grants to Center for Christian Growth Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Christian Growth Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,083,099 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Christian Growth Inc 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.
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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 23 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing