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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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2022
- Under $10k13 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 4220 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN AID MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| FIELDSTONE COUNSELING | $5,500 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF WAYNE COUN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO | $5,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ANGLICAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| CRU | $3,500 |
| ORPHAN WORLD RELIEF | $3,000 |
| MOODY RADIO | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 human-services grants (FY20–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 19% of Act 4 Advent 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 +17% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
- CAChristian Aid Ministries2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +13%
- IAINTERNATIONAL ANGLICAN CHURCH2× · 2021–2022 · $6k
- CCCHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MGMercy's Gateone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -5%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $500
- MFMid-Ohio Foodbankone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +5%
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.
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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 21 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 The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Christian Aid Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE 4220 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FIELDSTONE COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Mercy's Gate ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
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.
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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 Act 4 Advent 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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