· Public charity
Amish Inner Light Ministries
Aid to third world countries, prison ministry
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $588k
- $250k+1 grant · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASTERS INTL MINISTRIES | $509,900 |
| GRACE PRESS | $135,000 |
| MT ZION LITERATURE MINISTRY | $135,000 |
| SOUTHWEST AID | $110,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD AID | $106,000 |
| Apostolic Chrstn Harvestcall | $102,000 |
| WORLD MISSIONARY PRESS | $22,500 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSION CHARITIES | $22,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Amish Inner Light Ministries’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +127% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMasters International Ministries USA5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +741%
- GPGRACE PRESS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +127%
- MZMOUNT ZION LITERATURE MINISTRY5× · 2020–2024 · $276k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- PPPikes Peak Mennonite Churchone grant, 2023 · $20k
- SLSON LIGHT MISSIONSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +6%
- TTThe Tract Leagueone grant, 2022 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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.
Open a dossier: Anabaptist Foundation · Christian Aid Ministries Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Amish Inner Light Ministries funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amish Inner Light Ministries. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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