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Acts 2035 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.

$152k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 29
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Acts 2035 Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalFood & NutritionHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2025still arriving25$152k12%
FY202423$151k13%
FY202324$115k17%
FY202223$103k35%
FY202129$222k86%
FY20205$25kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$191kInternational$111kHealth$110kHuman Services$93kEducation$75kYouth Development$55kFood & Nutrition$35kCrime & Legal$23kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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CO
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NC
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alcoholics' Home Inc$50,00053%
Samaritan's Purse$46,00040%
Hope Academy Gso Inc$40,00061%
Compassion International Incorporated$37,0005n/a
Caldwell Academy$35,00050%
Freedom House$30,00050%
Christians in the Marketplace$24,000310%
Mercy Ships International$23,00050%
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church$20,0001n/a
Ligonier Ministries Inc$20,0005n/a
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Acts 2035 Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alcoholics' Home Inc$50,00053%
Samaritan's Purse$46,00040%
Hope Academy Gso Inc$40,00061%
Compassion International Incorporated$37,0005n/a
Caldwell Academy$35,00050%
Freedom House$30,00050%
Christians in the Marketplace$24,000310%
Mercy Ships International$23,00050%
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church$20,0001n/a
Ligonier Ministries Inc$20,0005n/a
One Mission Society USA Inc$19,0004n/a
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$18,0005n/a
Wisdom International Inc$17,00050%
Young Life$16,00020%
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association$15,0003n/a
Hopefulls Inc$15,00022%
Campus Outreach Charlotte$14,0003n/a
Abolitionnc$13,00037%
West End Ministries$10,00011%
Mark Puckett Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
B E y O N D$5,5002n/a
Mission Aviation Fellowship$5,0001n/a
Through the Word Inc$5,0001n/a
Family Room Foster Care Resource Center$5,00014%
Operation Smile Inc$5,00010%
The Grownups Benefit$5,0001n/a
Love One International$5,00010%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc$5,00010%
NourishNC Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($250k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Acts 2035 Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlcoholics' Home Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $46,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHope Academy Gso Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCaldwell Academy: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom House: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChristians in the Marketplace: $24,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetMercy Ships International: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWisdom International Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Life: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHopefulls Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAbolitionnc: $13,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetWest End Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Room Foster Care Resource Center: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove One International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNourishNC Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 17.

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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.

Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro IncNC15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Acts 2035 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Acts 2035 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 Acts 2035 Foundation

How much does Acts 2035 Foundation give?
Acts 2035 Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $152,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Acts 2035 Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), International (14%), Health (14%).
Who are Acts 2035 Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Alcoholics' Home Inc ($50k), Samaritan's Purse ($46k), Hope Academy Gso Inc ($40k).
Does Acts 2035 Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Acts 2035 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 Acts 2035 Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc, The Winston-Salem Foundation, Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc.
Where is Acts 2035 Foundation based?
Acts 2035 Foundation is based in NC.

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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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