· Private foundation
Acorn Investing Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOOR International | $18,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GWGOD'S WORD FOR THE NATIONS INC3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +90%
- FEFAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY2× · 2022–2023 · $24k · revenue +36%
- SCSports Catalyst Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- NGNEW GENERATIONSone grant, 2022 · $67k · revenue +10%
- SCSEED COMPANY INCone grant, 2022 · $54k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
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.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
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.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
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…
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Word for the Nations Inc 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 43 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 NEW GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN RESPONSE USA ↗
- Who funds GOD'S WORD FOR THE NATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Sports Catalyst Inc ↗
- Who funds ARABIAN WORLD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds VISIONSYNERGY ↗
- Who funds Not Forgotten International Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL STUDENTS USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Literacy and Development ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE CONNECT USA ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds INTERLIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REVIVAL SPORT INC ↗
- Who funds KRIN International Inc ↗
- Who funds Reaching Unreached Nations Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE4MENA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
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: Gordon Christian Trust · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Tyndale House Ministries · First Fruit Inc · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Summit Foundation · Henry P & Susan C Crowell Trust
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 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.
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.