How much did ACORN INVESTING INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of ACORN INVESTING INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

deaf outreachpartnershipliteracymedia productionhumanitarian aid

2021

deaf biblerefugeemedia productionbible translation

2022

africaoutreach refugeesoutreach asiachurch plantingbible translationproduction

2023

bible translation

2024

training outreachlanguageproduction

2025

training outreach

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $48k
$10k–50k1 grant · $19k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

DOOR International$18,500
ICR USA$9,000
Cornerstone Ministries Intl$8,000
SIM USA$7,800
Arabian World Partnership$6,000
Not Forgotten Intl$5,000
InterLit Foundation$4,000
Sports Catalyst$3,500
Pioneers$2,500
Hope4MENA$2,300

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 48% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of ACORN INVESTING INC’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.

ACORN INVESTING INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 6.8% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$394k · 21 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +268% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$394k

$297k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+268%

+64%

Still filing today

48%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

IC
International Christian Response USA
3× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue +268%
GW
God's Word for the Nations Inc
3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +397%
FE
Far East Broadcasting Company
2× · 2022–2023 · $24k · revenue +3%

Funded once

NG
New Generationsgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $67k · revenue +160%
TS
The Seed Company
one grant, 2022 · $54k
OM
OPERATION MOBILIZATION USA
one grant, 2022 · $44k

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

04Your field

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.

Global Radio Outreach

Our Gospel Radio Program in Arabic was inaugurated in 1993, broadcast from the Middle East on 5 transmitters and on the internet. Approximately 350 million Arabs can receive the programs. Our Farsi Gospel Radio Program was inaugurated in…

Religion

I58 Global

i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.

Human Services

Iranian Christians International Inc

Discipleship evangelism and advocacy among Persian People

International

E3 Partners Ministry

Spread the Gospel through evangelistic outreach & establishment of churches around the world.

Religion

Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Service

Religion

Davar Partners International

Providing the recording of high quality audio Bibles in world languages for oral people groups.

Religion

Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evangelism, disciple-making, and church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities around the world, starting in North America.

Religion

Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network.

International

InitiativeGlobal

To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.

Religion

Reconciliation Ministries International Inc

Reconciliation Ministries International is a Chistian evangelical organization dedicated to preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries around the world.

Religion

More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion

International Partnerships Inc

International Partnerships, Inc. is committed to carrying out the Great Commission.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Christian Response Usa and the most unlike its peers is Interlit Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

16/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$377,290Religion$162,019International$87,500Recreation & Sports$30,000Philanthropy$21,170Youth Development$9,500Human Services$6,300

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.

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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Gordon Christian Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Of · Servant Foundation · Summit Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund

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 organisation ACORN INVESTING INC 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Koinonia Mission Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +63% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 954330685 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Koinonia Mission Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Acorn Investing Inc?

Find your warmest path to Acorn Investing Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ACORN INVESTING INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Acorn Investing Inc?

More from the funding graph

ACORN INVESTING INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Acorn Investing Inc?

More from the funding graph