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1 17 Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of 1 17 Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year 1 17 Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $66k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY | $20,445 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| JUDSON COLLEGE | $8,589 |
| Serge | $5,000 |
| Armenian Relief Mission | $5,000 |
| The Field School | $5,000 |
| Javesca Feeds | $4,000 |
| Taylor University | $3,000 |
| Christ The King | $1,500 |
| Working in the Schools WITS | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DUDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +22%
- LILIFE IMPACT INC2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +4%
- JFJavesca Feeds Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- WCWaynooth Community Churchone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CFChicago Friends of Haitione grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -45%
- IMInterest Ministriesone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
The mission of Resource Global is to strategically invest (financially and with human capital) into initiatives advancing the Gospel locally and around the world.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
Religious
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund and the most unlike its peers is Faith Based Nonprofit Resource Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Friends of Haiti ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds LIFE IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds Javesca Feeds Inc ↗
- Who funds UNDIVIDED INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Interest Ministries ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF MISSION ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH BASED NONPROFIT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds RECIPROCAL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 1 17 Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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