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Baptist Gardens

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.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$25kHuman Services$25kHealth$10kReligion$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kPhilanthropy$8kHousing & Shelter$5kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION LIBERTY HILL$5,000
SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $10k → 6%RED CROSS: $8k → 14%OPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
CO
VA
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…

Religion
2
Living Water Productions

Telling compelling visual stories, documentary conditions and providing direct service to people thirsting to hear the word of god.

Religion
3
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
4
Fresh Living Water Ministries

To glorify god by fulfilling the great commandment (matthew 22:36-40) and the great commission (matthew 28:18-20), operating exclusively for religious prayer, educational and charitable purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3),…

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5
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
6
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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7
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
8
Angel Christian Television Trust Inc

Our mission is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel through all forms of media and broadcast. We are a Christian organization spreading the word of God to the ends of the earth.

Religion
9
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
10
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
11
Jesus Knows My Name Ministry

Spread the good news of jesus christ to the homeless of the skid row in los angeles.

Religion
12
Absolutely Free Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Waters Publications; the most unlike its peers is Anchored North. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MASTERS COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherTHE MASTERS COLLEGESMILE TRAIN INC: $9,500 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCSAMARITANS PURSE: $7,500 · OtherSAMARITANS PURSEWOUNDED WARRIOR: $7,500 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIORVINCENT INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · OtherVINCENT INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INCYOUTH FOR CHRIST: $5,000 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRISTLIBERTY BAPTIST CHURCH: $2,886 · OtherHIS NESTING PLACE: $2,500 · OtherOPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $14,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION LIBERTY HILLAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red C…KNOW THE TRUTH: $2,000 · ReligionLIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS: $2,000 · ReligionANCHORED NORTH: $2,000 · ReligionLONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsSOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Environment
Other$64,886Human Services$22,000Religion$6,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Civil Rights$5,000Environment$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPERATION LIBERTY HILL: $14,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKNOW THE TRUTH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Baptist Gardens funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Baptist Gardens. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Baptist Gardens?

    Find your warmest path to Baptist Gardens through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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