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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.

$874k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$1.3MReligion$1.1MHuman Services$461kRecreation & Sports$184kYouth Development$155kInternational$145kPhilanthropy$141kFood & Nutrition$127kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $635k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COACHING FOR LITERACY$100,000
SHALLOW FORD FOUNDATION$100,000
THE BULLDOG CLUB$99,853
BREAK THRU MINISTRIES$75,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
REAL LIFE MINISTRIES$50,000
LIFELLINE CHILDREN SERVICES$50,000
REGENTS SCHOOL OF OXFORD$50,000
UNITE US$50,000
FATHER IN THE FIELD$30,000
CHRISTMAS FOR KIDS$25,000
VAPOR SPORTS MINISTRIES$25,000
JH RANCH$18,199
DREAM CENTER$15,000
GOLDEN TRIANGLE HOMELESS COALITION$12,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LINVILLE RIDGE EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE: $10k → 10%UNITE US: $50k → 15%LIFE ON BELAY: $10k → 5%CARING & SHARING OF SOUTH WALTON: $10k → 11%STARKVILLE PREGNANCY CENTER: $30k → 24%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
OR
CO
MO
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 28 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
63

Total granted

$2.0M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+21%

Still filing today

50%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • TB
    THE BULLDOG CLUB INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $131k · revenue +189%
  • OD
    OUR DAILY BREAD
    4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +40%
  • LC
    LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • MS
    MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUND
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • P1
    PSALM 139 PROJECTERLC
    one grant, 2021 · $218k
  • MS
    MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA
    one grant, 2023 · $210k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
African Children's Mission Inc

Reaching out to children in east africa living in destitute circumstances, both physically and with the gospel of jesus christ, to enable them to grow and develop in a secure environment.

Religion
2
Mission Mississippi

To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.

Civil Rights
3
Los Angeles Mission Inc

The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.

Housing & Shelter
4
Christian Leadership Alliance

Christian leadership alliance exists to equip and unite leaders called to transform the world for christ.

5
Christian Services for Children in Alabama

The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.

6
Bless the Children Ministries Inc

To be the love of christ to uganda's orphaned and vulnerable children, equipping them to become authentic godly leaders that transform generations

International
7
What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
8
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
9
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

10
Believers Stewardship Services Inc

The ministry is designed to glorify god in fulfilling biblical stewardship by assisting christians to accomplish their financial & estate planning goals & by supporting local new testament churches & associated ministries with financial…

Philanthropy
11
Young Life

Young life is a ministry to help adolescents around the world become exposed to the person of jesus christ. this is accomplished in a variety of ways desgined to provide personal, religious experiences. (continued on schedule o)included…

Youth Development
12
New Life Solutions Inc

To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Linville Ridge Assistance Fund 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Food PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and ShelterChristian Youth CampsCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr14%29%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%5%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
15%
1,859/12,455

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.

04the grantee network

35 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 108 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY — $503,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITYMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUND — $250,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDPSALM 139 PROJECTERLC — $218,057 · OtherPSALM 139 PROJECTERLCMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA — $210,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAJH RANCH — $158,942 · OtherJH RANCHVAPOR SPORTS MINISTRIES — $150,000 · OtherTHE BULLDOG CLUB INC — $130,853 · OtherBREAKTHRU MINISTRIES — $108,000 · OtherLIFELLINE CHILDREN SERVICES — $100,000 · OtherPINELAKE CHURCH INC — $100,000 · OtherFATHERS IN THE FIELD — $110,000 · Other+72 more — $941,184 · Other+72 moreUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY — $100,000 · EducationREGENTS SCHOOL OF OXFORD INC — $50,000 · EducationALETHAS LEGACY INC — $47,500 · EducationLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $100,000 · ReligionALLIANCE MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 · ReligionGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH — $15,000 · Religion+2 more — $4,000 · ReligionUNITEUS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesSTARKVILLE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS FOR A CAUSE — $27,300 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERS OF MISSISSIPPI — $20,000 · Human ServicesLIFE ON BELAY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCARING & SHARING OF SOUTH WALTON INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesLinville Ridge Assistance Fund Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL CONNECTIONS — $55,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER MIAMI INC — $40,000 · InternationalZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · InternationalBRIDGE2RWANDA INC — $20,000 · InternationalSHALLOW FORD FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI — $20,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED — $6,500 · HealthOUR DAILY BREAD — $120,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $3,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,980,036Education$297,500Religion$159,000Human Services$157,300International$135,000Health$126,500Food & Nutrition$123,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BULLDOG CLUB INC — $130,853 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD — $120,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetFATHERS IN THE FIELD — $110,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALLOW FORD FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY — $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGLOBAL CONNECTIONS — $55,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUNITEUS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetREGENTS SCHOOL OF OXFORD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER MIAMI INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFATHER'S CHILD MINISTRY — $30,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetSTARKVILLE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetFRIENDS FOR A CAUSE — $27,300 over 5y, 14% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI — $20,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 691 PUSHMATAHA AREA TRUST FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetBRIDGE2RWANDA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERS OF MISSISSIPPI — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEL PASOANS FOR LIFE INC — $13,600 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLIFE ON BELAY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCARING & SHARING OF SOUTH WALTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLinville Ridge Assistance Fund Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS-LOWNDES HUMANE SOCIETY — $7,900 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED — $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES INC — $3,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNever Alone Widows Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RISING SUN INC — $2,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 THE BULLDOG CLUB INC
  • Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD
  • Who funds FATHERS IN THE FIELD
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SHALLOW FORD FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
  • Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY
  • Who funds GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
  • Who funds UNITEUS INC
  • Who funds REGENTS SCHOOL OF OXFORD INC
  • Who funds ALETHAS LEGACY INC
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER MIAMI INC
  • Who funds ALLIANCE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds FATHER'S CHILD MINISTRY
  • Who funds STARKVILLE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER
  • Who funds FRIENDS FOR A CAUSE
  • Who funds EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI

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.

Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Bbb 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bbb Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bbb Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 108 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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