· Private foundation
Aim 5 Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $832k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFELINE | $200,000 |
| THE JONES PROJECT | $175,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $150,000 |
| CFCC | $134,800 |
| EFFECTIVE MINISTRY INC | $62,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| TOPEKA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| EASTER SEALS CAPPER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| COMPASSION STRATEGIES | $25,000 |
| DOXAZO | $15,525 |
| GREATER TOPEKA PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TOP CITY PROMISE | $10,000 |
| UNITED CHARITABLE | $10,000 |
| 2030 FOUNDATION OF TOPEKA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $334k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% 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.
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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k 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
- LCLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +159%
- YLYOUNG LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +59%
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC4× · 2018–2022 · $302k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- GMGO MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $425k · revenue +61%
- MCMANHATTAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INCone grant, 2017 · $340k · revenue -43%
- MCMISSION CHURCH OF TOPEKA INCone grant, 2023 · $300k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
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.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Our goal is to come alongside the church in its gospel-first mission to transform lives and transform culture.
Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Topeka Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is You Can Begin Again 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 22 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) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 109 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 LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Jones Project Inc ↗
- Who funds GO MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Alliance for Orphans ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRASH MOUNTAIN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds BUILD A BETTER US ↗
- Who funds Pure & Faultless ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds DOXAZO MINISTRIES 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: Topeka Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · Kansas Independent College Association · The Pete Henry Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Aim 5 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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