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Allied Christian Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,500 |
| Younglife | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,395 |
| Wilderness Trails | $3,000 |
| Ripe for Harvest | $3,000 |
| Ripe for Harvest | $3,000 |
| First Image | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Love Your Neighbor Ministries | $1,000 |
| CAPAZ | $1,000 |
| Youth with a mission | $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 (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- LPLuis Palau Association5× · 2017–2021 · $77k · revenue +54%
- VSVERITAS SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +40%
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +59%
Funded once
LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +20%- RFRipe for Harvestone grant, 2022 · $3k
- NCNew Church of Hollywoodone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Cedar lake ministries exist to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth.
Bible-centered, interdenominational, organization, composed of born-again believers whose purpose and mission are to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, disciple them in the Word of God, and establish them…
See schedule o. we serve individuals, families, educational institutions, religiously affiliated groups, social service agencies, community service organizations, and other nonprofit organizations that enrich life in the world. we are a…
Christian retreat center
As followers of jesus, we provide all people of all ages unique opportunities where they may discover god's love for them, deepen relationships with one another, and explore this through high-quality outdoor programming, retreats,…
Ministry to children
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.
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.
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
Building lives on the rock.
Providing Christian conferences, summer camps, internship programs,and ministry mentorship for youth across the United States.
To develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 39 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 Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds VERITAS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds First Image ↗
- Who funds CANNON BEACH CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VIVIAN LEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch Co ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds YOUTH 71FIVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Allied Christian 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Youth 71FIVE Ministries — 16% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
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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