Texas · Nonprofit
TRINITY FOUNDATION INC
TRINITY FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,650 to it, the largest being CARITA FOUNDATION-IMA ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $88k
What Trinity Foundation Inc does
Mission
A "Watchdog", Investigating Religious Fraud and Excess, The Foundation is one of the nation's leading religious-media "watchdogs". Information requests are met regularly from local, regional, national and international print and television media organizations and podcasts. In addition, we regularly provide information to the exempt organization division of the IRS and other governmental and law enforcement agencies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Watchdog on Ministry Abuse (investigating religious fraud and excess)--Trinity Foundation is one of the nation's leading religious-media watchdogs looking at misuse of donor money, etc. Information requests are met regularly from local, regional, national, and international print and television media organizations and podcasts. In addition, we regularly provide information to the exempt organization division of the IRS and other governmental and law enforcement agencies. The number of persons helped is not quantifiable, but we believe we reach thousands of individuals, a number of whom are victims or relatives of victims of religious fraud. about 75 % of our program services activities were involved with this program service.
$57,517 spent80% of program spendingLow Income Housing--In 1995 and again in 1998, Trinity Foundation acquired multifamily housing facilities in OK City and in Dayton, OH to provide low cost housing for poor and distressed. Now we only provide low-income housing in 2 apartments; 2 persons benefitted in one apartment and one person in another (3 total). 2) Subsidizing low-income housing-approximately 17 percent of our activities were involved with this program service this year.
$12,164 spent17% of program spendingService Corps-a small percentage of our activities were involved with this program service, managing community service "volunteers", doing yardwork and maintenance on non-profit property, etc. Specifically started as a practical resource for our community and for providing an on-going work rehabilitation program for the people we serve. Slightly less than 1% of our program services activities were involved with this program service.
$716 spent1% of program spending4) Meeting need: medical, hunger, homelessness, etc. After an increase last year to approximately 10% of our accomplishments, the dollar amount spent on charity decreased somewhat in 2024. Approximately 1.5% of our program service activities were involved with helping the Community on Columbia Church serve needy individuals.
$1,153 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,550.
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 2018 to 2019, from $96k to $175k (+83%).
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.
78% of TRINITY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $53 → $27.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 TRINITY FOUNDATION 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
TRINITY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
TRINITY FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
TRINITY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRINITY FOUNDATION 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.
Public support
36%
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 TRINITY FOUNDATION 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 TRINITY FOUNDATION INC?
- TRINITY FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,650 to it, the largest being CARITA FOUNDATION-IMA ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRINITY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,650 in grants to TRINITY FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRINITY FOUNDATION INC?
- CARITA FOUNDATION-IMA is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRINITY FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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