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Elijah's Retreat Inc

Elijah's Retreat Inc (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $457,294 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($247,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$423k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$457k
Net assets
$486k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Elijah's Retreat Inc does

Mission

Elijahs Retreat is a sanctuary for families facing autism. Elijahs Retreat nurtures attachment for families facing autism through outdoor adventure and the interaction with therapeutic animals

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Santuary for families. Elijahs Retreat provides a 7 day a week retreat for over 300 families a year in private cabins. Each cabin is self contained. Flexible schedules and customization to accomodate the interests and needs of each family. The 50 acre retreat offers a fenced in playground, educational sensory garden, music and sensory rooms, hiking, barrel train rides, basketball, foosball, ping pong, etc. Offers opportunities to try new therapy for the kids.

    $319,458 spent$421,282 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $319,458.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($71k) Net assets 100 ($39k)2021 Revenue 221 ($216k) Expenses 173 ($124k) Net assets 344 ($134k)2022 Revenue 313 ($305k) Expenses 236 ($169k) Net assets 695 ($271k)2023 Revenue 447 ($436k) Expenses 404 ($289k) Net assets 1072 ($418k)2024 Revenue 433 ($423k) Expenses 494 ($353k) Net assets 1247 ($486k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (433)Expenses (494)Net assets (1247)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $274k to $421k (+53%).

$39k
$134k
$274k
$421k
$487k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of Elijah's Retreat Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’20
$92k
’21
$137k
’22
$147k
’23
$69k
’24
7.6
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.

2021202220232024
Listed9878
Joined·+5+2+4
No longer listed·633
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $164k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 Elijah's Retreat 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

Elijah's Retreat Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

70% 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 Elijah's Retreat Inc.

54%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 47% · 2022 38% · 2023 55% — 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

60% of Elijah's Retreat Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

70% of Elijah's Retreat 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 $135k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Texas funders.

NE
TX

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

’18
’20
’21
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $322k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Elijah's Retreat Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve7.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)44% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Elijah's Retreat 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 4%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Elijah's Retreat Inc?
Elijah's Retreat Inc (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $457,294 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($247,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Elijah's Retreat Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $457,294 in grants to Elijah's Retreat Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Elijah's Retreat Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $247,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Elijah's Retreat 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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