· Public charity
Assist International Inc
Assist international partners with changemakers around the world to provide solutions that save lives and build resilient communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $6,018,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,028,287 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,009,487 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIONS IN SIGHT OF CA | $1,963,078 |
| MODESTO MOVES | $1,236,386 |
| EZER INTERNATIONAL GROUP | $655,652 |
| GRACE IS THE KEY | $483,541 |
| CERES SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH | $352,758 |
| LOVE'S TREASURE MINISTRY | $246,450 |
| MODESTO GOSPEL MISSION | $219,560 |
| TODAY IS A NEW DAY RECOVERY HOME | $151,733 |
| CELEBRATION CHRISTIAN CENTER | $134,213 |
| NINEVEH OUTREACH | $124,999 |
| THRIVE CHURCH | $101,704 |
| FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $89,321 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE FAITH HOME | $59,457 |
| TRACY MISSION CITY CHURCH | $47,820 |
| UOP COMMUNITY RE-ENTRY PROGRAM | $36,883 |
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 (FY19–23, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $12M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT WORK OF LIONS IN SIGHT PROGRAM TO PROVIDE EYEGLASSES TO VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN HAITI AND GUATEMALA. · TO SUPPORT THE DISTRIBUTION OF EYEGLASSES TO THOSE IN NEED IN GUATEMALA.
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT THE ONGOING NEEDS OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN NEW DAWN AND LWASI OUTREACH PROGRAMS IN UGANDA. · TO HELP SUPPORT THE ONGOING WORK OF SEWING HOPE (INCLUDING MEDICAL CLINIC) HELPING VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN UGANDA. · TO HELP SUPPORT THE ONGOING WORK OF AOET HELPING VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN UGANDA.
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT THE ONGOING NEEDS OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN CAMINUL FELIX VILLAGES IN ROMANIA. · TO HELP SUPPORT THE ONGOING WORK OF JHOR AND ONESIMUS BROTHERS HOUSE HELPING VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN ROMANIA.
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT THE ONGOING WORK OF CAMINUL FELIX THAILAND VULNERABLE CHILDREN PROGRAMS. · OXYGEN PLANT TOOL KITS SHIPPED TO CAMBODIA FOR OXYGEN PLANT MAINTENANCE TRAINING PROGRAM.
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT THE ROTARY CLUB IN CALERA, ZACATECAS IN MEXICO AND THEIR WORK SUPPORTING THOSE IN NEED IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
- MGMODESTO GOSPEL MISSION7× · 2018–2024 · $637k · revenue +97%
- TIToday Is A New Day Recovery Home Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $351k · revenue +92%
- PAPurpose and Legacy3× · 2019–2023 · $350k · revenue +6% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- NLNEW LIFE RECOVERY HOME2× · 2019–2020 · $447k
- MVMODESTO VICTORY LIFE CENTER FOURSQUARE CHURCH2× · 2018–2019 · $385k
- GGRACEISTHEKEY5× · 2019–2024 · $323k
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.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Assisting and housing females in recovery
To provide transitional housing, accountability, and life management education. a christian alternative for homeless women and children seeking to change the focus and direction of their lives as they work toward self- sufficiency.
To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future
Hope street provides housing and healing to men, women, and children whose lives have been profoundly affected by the toxic environment they grew up in, their own choices, or drug and alcohol abuse. empowered by the active grace of christ,…
This organization provides clothing, food, and medical services to low income citizens in various areas of southern california and reunite them with family
Housing the homeless
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cityteam Ministries and the most unlike its peers is International Medicine Group 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 19 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 57 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 MODESTO MOVES ↗
- Who funds LIONS IN SIGHT OF CALIFORNIA AND AND NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds MODESTO GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds Education is Key ↗
- Who funds Today Is A New Day Recovery Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Purpose and Legacy ↗
- Who funds FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WAVE MISSION TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds Oakdale Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds FAITH HOME TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds TRACY CITY CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIVING CHILDREN HOPE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TAYLOR INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST RESPONDERS SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
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: Stanislaus Community Foundation · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · United Way of Stanislaus County · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Good360 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Assist International Inc 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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