Council for Life
Dallas, TX · EIN 05-0532415. Reported 157 grants totalling $7,277,574 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Council for Life, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P45) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 5% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $47,964. Half of what it reported fell between $26,400 and $60,000; the smallest was $9,972 and the largest $155,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Equipped to Succeed | Dallas, TX | $361,100 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Real Options for Women | Allen, TX | $328,796 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Prestonwood Caring People Network | Plano, TX | $293,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Dallas Life Inc | Dallas, TX | $283,918 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Young Life | Colorado Spgs, CO | $272,393 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Birth Choice of Dallas | Dallas, TX | $264,235 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Pregnancy Resource Center | Rockwall, TX | $236,600 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Mid-Cities Pregnancy Care Inc | Euless, TX | $232,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Arlington Pregnancy Center Inc | Arlington, TX | $219,840 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Watermark Health a Nonprofit Corporation | Dallas, TX | $215,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Pregnancy Help 4 U Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $214,897 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| In My Shoes Inc | Dallas, TX | $213,710 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Mission Pre-Born Inc | Whitestown, IN | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Fort Worth Crisis Pregnancy Center | Fort Worth, TX | $197,884 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Catholic Pro-Life Community Inc | Dallas, TX | $195,650 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Bella House Inc | Plano, TX | $195,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hope Womens Center | Mckinney, TX | $191,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wrc Pregnancy Center of Ellis County | Waxahachie, TX | $176,378 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Christian Works for Children Inc | Dallas, TX | $170,300 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Students for Life of America Inc | Fredericksbrg, VA | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Embrace Grace Inc | Hurst, TX | $169,161 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Blessings International | Broken Arrow, OK | $153,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| St Josephs Helpers of Dallas Texas | Dallas, TX | $151,080 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Buckner Children and Family Services Inc | Dallas, TX | $135,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Vitae Foundation | Jefferson Cty, MO | $125,750 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Bridges Safehouse Inc | Cedar Hill, TX | $122,740 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Embrace Waiting Children Inc | Mckinney, TX | $122,640 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Abel Speaks | Plano, TX | $121,340 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Vitamin Bridge | Coppell, TX | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mater Filius of Dallas | Plano, TX | $95,278 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Christian Homes of Abilene | Abilene, TX | $94,675 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Pregnancy Resource Ctr of Gp | Grand Prairie, TX | $94,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Live Action | Arlington, VA | $88,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Carenet | Lansdowne, VA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Greater Fort Worth Pro-Life Ministries | Arlington, TX | $78,186 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Amiras House | Keller, TX | $77,972 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Care Net Pregnancy Center of Central Texas | Waco, TX | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Council for Life Foundation | Dallas, TX | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hope Womens Center | Mckinney, TX | $71,915 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Nightlight Christian Adoptions | Santa Ana, CA | $65,715 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hope Pregnancy Center Inc | Killeen, TX | $60,021 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Community Doulas of Waco | Waco, TX | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Violas House | Dallas, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Theology of the Body Evangelization Team | Irving, TX | $49,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Deep Roots Ministries Inc | Terrell, TX | $48,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pregnancy Lifeline | Fort Worth, TX | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pregnancy Resource Center of Grand Prairie | Grand Prairie, TX | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Buckner International | Dallas, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Highland Baptist Church | Waco, TX | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Together for Good | Saint Paul, MN | $39,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mercy House Ministries Inc | Colleyville, TX | $31,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lifeline Childrens Services Inc | Birmingham, AL | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Foster Love Bell County Inc | Belton, TX | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Texas Right to Life Committee Educational Fund | Bellaire, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
43 of 54 (80%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Birth Choice of Dallas
MARKETING & NURSE/SONOGRAPHER SALAR - Bella House
TRANSITION SUPPORT/OUTREACH - Care Net
PROTECTIVE PLAYGROUND COVER - Buckner Children & Family
LIFE DESIGN & MATERNITY SERVICES - Thrive Womens Clinic
DIR. OF CLINIC SERVICES SALARY - Just Say Yes
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What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 43 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $976,685 | $45,000 |
| 2022 | 31 | $1,137,832 | $32,000 |
| 2023 | 31 | $1,150,860 | $32,000 |
| 2024 | 33 | $1,779,878 | $53,310 |
| 2025 | 39 | $2,232,319 | $58,710 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
83% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $47,964 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Council for Life's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 39 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 4516 Lovers Lane PMB103, Dallas, TX, 75225.
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