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Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas

Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,016 to it, the largest being THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ($110,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2020
$45k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$217k
Net assets
$0
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas does

Mission

The organization's mission is to create and oversee strategic initiatives that address gaps in services to help meet the needs of our West Dallas neighbors and to show the love of Christ. Significant activites are to manage and coordinate human and financial resources to effect the social, economic, educational, and religious transformation of West Dallas. The organization supports and promotes the activities of churches and other organizations in West Dallas and is primarily funded by individual, church, and foundation contributions.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas Utilized its resources in order to support and collaborate the efforts of existing ministries, churches, and organizations in identifying, understanding, and priortizing the needs of various ministries operating in West Dallas.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($440k) Expenses 100 ($478k) Net assets 100 ($166k)2019 Revenue 86 ($377k) Expenses 100 ($477k) Net assets 40 ($67k)2020 Revenue 10 ($45k) Expenses 23 ($112k) Net assets 0 ($0)
201820192020
Revenue (10)Expenses (23)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $180k to $74k (−59%).

$180k
$74k
$0
201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$39k
’18
−$100k
’19
−$67k
’20
0.9
months of
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.

20182019
Listed99
Joined·+2
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $85k → $25k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas’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

Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas.

51%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 79% · 2019 59% — 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.

Where its funders are

79% of Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas'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 $46k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas: 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 Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas?
Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,016 to it, the largest being THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ($110,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $217,016 in grants to Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas?
THE DALLAS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Christian Transformation Foundation West Dallas dba Serve West Dallas 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 FY2020 (financials across 2018–2020), and the filings of 6 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