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A & B Winstrom Christian Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $234k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER OF LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH | $137,200 |
| Redeeming Grace in Mexico Inc | $96,805 |
| KING OF KINGS CHURCH | $15,000 |
| Esperanza en el rey por Ancla de Amor | $11,000 |
| My Faith Votes Increase Our Time to Build | $10,000 |
| Crown College | $10,000 |
| Come and See Foundation Inc | $5,150 |
| Students for Life Organization | $5,000 |
| Samaritans Purse | $5,000 |
| Friends of the Forgotten | $5,000 |
| Mission Central - Lutheran Church MO Synod | $5,000 |
| SAN CARLOS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($1.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($219k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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
Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($219k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of A & B Winstrom Christian Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +134%
- KMKOENES MINISTRIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +75%
- BRBLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL4× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- KOKING OF KINGS CHURCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $115k
- SCSCHWAB CHARITABLE DAFone grant, 2018 · $85k
- MCMission Central - LCMS World Missionone grant, 2020 · $13k
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.
Connecting biblical soul care to missions through the local church.
Missions - sponsors foreign and domestic missions and orphanages with a special emphasis on missions in India
Army of the Kind is a Christ-centered nonprofit commited to ending poverty by serving children and families around the world with compassion and care.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
RMI provides pastoral care ministry and support globally, with conferences, seminars, retreats, meetings and individual counseling.
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
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…
Equip ministries trains overseas pastors and leaders, empowers the church, provides humanitarian aid, and attempts to reach the unreached peoples around the world by working with church leaders to fulfil
Bringing souls face to face with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ and forming missionaries of the New Evangelization. The organization has realized this mission by providing music and production services for worship events.
This organization exists to restore men and women to live from their heart - as God's intimate allies - by recovering the treasure of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, entrusting that message to the people who have been transformed by it, and to…
To reach people with the gospel of Jesus Christ through medical and dental treatments, English Bible training classes, theological training and to support seminary study at different parts of the world
Our mission is to reach the unreached and teach the untaught with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Engage Your Destiny and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Forgotten. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 40 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 Elevate Pregnancy and Family Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Redeeming Grace in Mexico Inc ↗
- Who funds GLORY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds KOENES MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SALUTING COMMUNITY HEROES ↗
- Who funds CROWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Orphanos Foundation ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Forgotten ↗
- Who funds Christian Aid Ministries ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds INDIA TRANSFORMED ↗
- Who funds ENGAGE YOUR DESTINY ↗
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: Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 A & B Winstrom Christian Family 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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