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HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY

HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,235,069 to it, the largest being PERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,348,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$909k
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$2.5M
17/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 84%
01What it does

What Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry does

Mission

The Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry takes the gospel of jesus christ into the darkest of places in the texas prison system through our bachelor degree program, which educates men and women with long-term prison sentences. Graduates of the Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry are allowed to serve their peers as field ministers throughout the texas prison system.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry has a fully operational instructional location at the memorial unit maximum-security state prison in rosharon, texas.

    $308,362 spent
    53% of program spending
  2. The Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry has a fully operational instructional location at the hobby unit maximum-security state prison in marlin, texas.

    $241,844 spent
    42% of program spending
  3. Field ministry: the Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry supports the graduates of its program by commissioning them as texas field ministers, and providing them with resources for their service in the role of field minister, to include appointing them as professors' assistants in each instructional location, and providing them with personal curricular and ministry resource books and other materials for their work as field ministers, providing additional and continued advocacy and support through close relationships with the leadership within the texas department of criminal justice.

    $29,079 spent
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $579,285.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($756k) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($958k)2020 Revenue 82 ($620k) Expenses 24 ($547k) Net assets 178 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 116 ($880k) Expenses 34 ($768k) Net assets 190 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 115 ($868k) Expenses 31 ($704k) Net assets 207 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 114 ($858k) Expenses 29 ($649k) Net assets 229 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 119 ($902k) Expenses 33 ($743k) Net assets 246 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 120 ($909k) Expenses 32 ($722k) Net assets 265 ($2.5M)
2017202020212022202320242025
Revenue (120)Expenses (32)Net assets (265)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 2024 to 2025, from $2.4M to $2.6M (+8%).

$975k
$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.6M
2017202020212022202320242025
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.

2017
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.5M
’17
$73k
’20
$112k
’21
$164k
’22
$209k
’23
$159k
’24
$187k
’25
35
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.

Board chair

Michael Behne

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017202020212022202320242025
Listed6655666
Joined··+1+0+3+0+3
No longer listed··20203
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $637k → $362k.

7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY’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

HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

34% 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 HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY.

42%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 48% · 2019 76% · 2020 47% · 2021 21% · 2022 42% · 2023 50% — 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

62% of HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY's grant income comes from Texas funders.

OH
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve34.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 16%Fundraising 4%

Governance

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

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY?
HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,235,069 to it, the largest being PERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,348,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,235,069 in grants to HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY?
PERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,348,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY find more funders?
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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 22 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