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Act 4 Advent 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.

$89k
Granted FY2022
17
Grants FY2022
16
Organizations funded FY2022
94%
First-time grantees FY2022
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100% of Act 4 Advent Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Moody Bible Institute Of Chicago, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Act 4 Advent Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $89k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’20
1
’21
13
’22
2
’23
1
’24
0
’25

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

Median grant, FY2022
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 16
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
7
Total assets, FY2022
$4k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 94% of the organizations Act 4 Advent Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202216$87k94%
FY20211$1k100%
FY20203$2kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$49kInternational$23kHuman Services$17kFood & Nutrition$6kHealth$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Act 4 Advent Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christian Aid Ministries$13,00020%
The 4220 Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Compassion International Incorporated$10,0001n/a
Samaritan's Purse$10,00010%
International Anglican Church$6,0002n/a
Christian Children's Home of Ohio Inc$5,50020%
Fieldstone Counseling Inc$5,50011%
The Springs Rescue Mission$5,00010%
Pregnancy Care Center of Wayne County Inc$5,00011%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$5,00010%
Orphan World Relief$3,00013%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$2,0001n/a
Mercy's Gate$50010%
Haven of Rest Ministries Incorporated$5001n/a
Mid-Ohio Foodbank$50010%
Promise Keepers$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Act 4 Advent Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChristian Aid Ministries: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe 4220 Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Children's Home of Ohio Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFieldstone Counseling Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Springs Rescue Mission: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPregnancy Care Center of Wayne County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrphan World Relief: $3,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMercy's Gate: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPromise Keepers: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 Charitable Fdn IncGA11.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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How do I get to Act 4 Advent Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Act 4 Advent 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.

About Act 4 Advent Foundation

How much does Act 4 Advent Foundation give?
Act 4 Advent Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $89,100 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Act 4 Advent Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (43%), International (20%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Act 4 Advent Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Christian Aid Ministries ($13k), The 4220 Foundation Inc ($10k), Compassion International Incorporated ($10k).
Does Act 4 Advent Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 94% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Act 4 Advent Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Act 4 Advent Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Act 4 Advent Foundation based?
Act 4 Advent Foundation is based in OH.

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 21 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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