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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.

$66k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

2
’21
9
’22
5
’23
7
’24
4
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$600kReligion$104kEducation$90kInternational$28kHuman Services$27kFood & Nutrition$7kCivil Rights$6kHealth$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW MOMS INC: $25k → 14%CHICAGO FRIENDS OF HAITI: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
UT
NE
MD
NC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162k · 7 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$162k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+21%

Still filing today

43%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DU
    DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +22%
  • LI
    LIFE IMPACT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +4%
  • JF
    Javesca Feeds Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • WC
    Waynooth Community Church
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CF
    Chicago Friends of Haiti
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -45%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion
2
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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4
Resource Global

The mission of Resource Global is to strategically invest (financially and with human capital) into initiatives advancing the Gospel locally and around the world.

Religion
5
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
6
Servant Foundation

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.…

Religion
7
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
8
Entrust

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…

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9
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
10
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

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…

Human Services
11
Far Reaching Ministries

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…

International
12
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $600,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $58,500 · OtherCOVENANT PRESBYTERIA…JUDSON COLLEGE: $29,742 · OtherJUDSON COLLEGEWaynooth Community Church: $24,500 · OtherWaynooth Community C…Individual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant rec…Individual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant rec…+13 more: $26,445 · Other+13 moreDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $44,796 · EducationTaylor University: $9,000 · EducationTHE FIELD SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNEW MOMS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesChicago Friends of Haiti: $10,000 · Human ServicesLIFE IMPACT INC: $7,500 · ReligionUNDIVIDED INC: $5,998 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 · ReligionInterest Ministries: $5,000 · ReligionJavesca Feeds Inc: $7,000 · Food & NutritionARMENIAN RELIEF MISSION: $5,000 · International
Community Improvement$601,000Other$164,187Education$59,796Human Services$35,000Religion$23,498Food & Nutrition$7,000International$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $44,796 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MOMS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChicago Friends of Haiti: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTaylor University: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE IMPACT INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJavesca Feeds Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterest Ministries: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSERGE GLOBAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN RELIEF MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE FIELD SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRECIPROCAL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $745 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 1 17 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 1 17 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to 1 17 Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to 1 17 Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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