· Public charity
American Baptist Foundation
To support and strengthen the christian witness fulfilled by the foundation's partners in ministry and mission.
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.
The 39 grants below total $673,867 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $835,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $161,833 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k38 grants · $624k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES BWA | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES BWA ALL AFRICA BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP | $46,667 |
| BELFAIR COMMUNITY CHURCH | $16,000 |
| STAR CLUB INC | $16,000 |
| THE BORDER CHURCH | $16,000 |
| ALLIANCE OF ASIAN AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES | $16,000 |
| BERKELEY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $16,000 |
| AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS | $16,000 |
| AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES OF NEW JERSEY | $16,000 |
| BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $16,000 |
| NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH - DENVER CO | $16,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PARSONS KS | $16,000 |
| AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES OF METRO NEW YORK | $16,000 |
| SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH | $16,000 |
| PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH NJ | $16,000 |
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, $311k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $147k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PALMER GRANT PROGRAM. THESE GRANTS ENHANCE MINISTRIES OF DISCIPLESHIP AND INCARNATIONAL PRACTICE IN AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES USA (ABCUSA) CONGREGATIONS AND ABCUSA-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS.
Stated purpose: PALMER GRANT PROGRAM. THESE GRANTS ENHANCE MINISTRIES OF DISCIPLESHIP AND INCARNATIONAL PRACTICE IN AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES USA (ABCUSA) CONGREGATIONS AND ABCUSA-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS.
Stated purpose: PALMER GRANT PROGRAM. THESE GRANTS ENHANCE MINISTRIES OF DISCIPLESHIP AND INCARNATIONAL PRACTICE IN AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES USA (ABCUSA) CONGREGATIONS AND ABCUSA-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS.
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 16 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k 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
- SLSAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH4× · 2020–2024 · $86k · revenue +74% · 66% of their budget
- NGNEHEMIAH GATEWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION5× · 2018–2024 · $86k · revenue +12%
- EMEDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER INC3× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- ABAMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES OF MICHIGANone grant, 2023 · $60k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HOLDREGEone grant, 2023 · $58k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
Degreed courses offered to men and women in training and preparation to enter the ministry of preaching and teaching the Gospel.
A leader among faith-based universities Eastern Mennonite University emphasizes peace-building creation care experiential learning and intercultural engagement. Founded in 1917 in Harrisonburg Virginia EMU is an educational institution of…
As an institution of christian higher education, eternity bible college exists to glorify god through graduates whose lives are transformed by rigorous study of the bible as scripture, empassioned love for god, and gracious service in the…
Christian education
In accordance with the mandate of matthew 28:19-20 and 2 timothy 2:2, alaska bible college seeks to train servants who lead with christlike character by 1.) nurturing students in bible-based, academic programs that solidify their christian…
To provide a home away from home for the northwestern university students where they can participate in worship, discussion, study, fellowship and services
Educate children in a christian environment
To empower alaska natives through bibically based higher education and christian formation to pursue excellence in character, learning, and service as followers of christ.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Private education for children through a k-12 school and childcare centers, as well as religious adult education on a weekly basis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salama Urban Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kodiak Baptist Mission. 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 71 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 136 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 SAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds NEHEMIAH GATEWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EDNA MARTIN CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORACION MILAGROS DEL AMOR ↗
- Who funds Kodiak Baptist Mission ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BAPTIST MULTICULTURAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds Star Club Inc ↗
- Who funds BURMA RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ELOHEH EAGLES WINGS ↗
- Who funds HEART REACH NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES ↗
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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Christian Community Credit Union · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Servant Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Enterprise Holdings 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 American Baptist 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.
- Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corporation — 20% 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.