Texas Methodist Foundation's Grants Ministry Awards $975,000 to 59 Churches and Nonprofits Across Texas and New Mexico

Texas Methodist Foundation (TMF) grants $975,000 to 59 churches and nonprofits across Texas and New Mexico during its Fall 2024 grant cycle. Each grantee cares deeply for their community and promotes positive and measurable outcomes through initiatives that honor and respect individuals and families, fostering hope and a better quality of life for those served.

Deeply rooted in the value of loving one's neighbor, this cycle’s grantees engage in innovative efforts to empower their communities and improve the lives of those in need through educational, social, and faith-based programming and services. These churches and nonprofits amplify the strengths already present within the communities they serve, enabling creative and sustainable solutions that help make long-lasting change by celebrating and empowering individuals and families and the places they live.

"We are deeply committed to evangelism with social impact and improving the conditions of those living in poverty," said Wendolyn Abel, TMF's vice president of Grants Ministry. "Our grantees demonstrate the power of faith-based social impact and how helping neighbors—whether that be through a college scholarship, a brand-new bed, or access to free healthcare—changes lives in meaningful ways.”

The recipients below exemplify the loving and generous work all the grantees in this cycle are doing. To learn more about all the recipients, visit TMF's Partners in Ministry webpage.

• The Friends of the Elgin Library in Elgin, Texas, supports the library through initiatives such as The Elgin Book Bus, a manuscript-filled bus that delivers free children’s books throughout the city and surrounding rural areas.
• Hope Clinic of Garland in Garland, Texas, provides free wraparound services that include primary and urgent care, chronic disease management, and education and develops lasting medical relationships with patients by addressing whole-person healthcare needs and practices based on family, faith, and community.
• Jarvis Christian University in Hawkins, Texas, created the Hispanic Student Scholarship Fund to foster academic excellence and promote access to higher education for underrepresented and underserved communities.
• Rahab's Retreat and Ranch, Inc. in Kilgore, Texas, provides immediate safety and security from sexual assault and family violence for women living in East Texas through stabilization and crisis intervention services and a secure living environment, as well as improved mental, physical, and emotional health.
• Sleep in Heavenly Peace in Brownwood, Texas, provides beds to children who would otherwise be sleeping on the floor, giving them a place to sleep and a sense of security, comfort, and dignity.

“TMF’s Grants Ministry is made possible by a cycle of generosity that begins when an individual or congregation creates an endowment or donor-advised fund with us," said Justin Gould, TMF's chief philanthropy officer. “Those charitable gifts, in turn, help support our grantees to improve the lives of those experiencing poverty, and we’re honored to bring donors’ charitable dreams to life.”

About Texas Methodist Foundation

Founded in 1938, Texas Methodist Foundation is a ministry partner to churches, nonprofits, and leaders, providing investments, loans, endowments, gift planning, grants, and leadership cohorts. This ministry is possible because individuals, congregations, and organizations who believe in the church's mission invest with TMF, empowering a cycle of generosity and helping bring about the loving world God imagines. Texas Methodist Foundation's Learning and Innovation ministry, which began in 2002, is known nationally as a convener and conversation partner igniting imaginations of courageous leaders across the spiritual landscape and innovating for the future of the church. Texas Methodist Foundation serves organizations throughout Texas and New Mexico and is based in Austin, Texas. To learn more, visit texasmethodistfoundation.org.

About Texas Methodist Foundation’s Grants Ministry

Texas Methodist Foundation’s Grant Ministry empowers innovative churches and nonprofits that provide evangelism with social impact and community programs and services that improve the conditions of those living in poverty across Texas and New Mexico. Our ministry is made possible by a cycle of generosity that begins with investors and donors, empowering a unity of faith and funds to meet the needs of the church and the communities it serves. In 2024, the ministry distributed over $1.8 million in grants to 99 churches and nonprofits, supporting individuals and families and strengthening local communities. To learn more, visit texasmethodistfoundation.org/grants.