· Public charity
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 and governance related matters.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 58 grants below total $3,798,597 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,127,238 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $328,641 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $547k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN MANY LANDS INC | $984,991 |
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $683,555 |
| MOUNTAIN TOP YOUTH CAMP | $210,147 |
| EMMAUS UNIVERSITY | $167,623 |
| LAND O'LAKES BIBLE CHAPEL | $125,000 |
| CHRISTIAN WORKERS FELLOWSHIP FUND INC | $121,084 |
| REST HAVEN HOMES INC | $106,800 |
| BELIEVERS' CHAPEL | $102,653 |
| RENEWED LIFE MINISTRIES OUTREACH | $100,000 |
| CUMBERLAND WILDERNESS RETREAT INC | $100,000 |
| IMMANUEL MISSION | $96,002 |
| CAMP BEREA | $88,850 |
| EMMAUS WORLDWIDE | $79,400 |
| SCHOOL MINISTRIES INC | $65,000 |
| ARBOR OAKS BIBLE CHAPEL | $62,400 |
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 (FY19–25, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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
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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k 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
- EBEMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +19%
- CWCHRISTIAN WORKERS FELLOWSHIP FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +45%
- EMECS Ministries9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +1% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- PPPORTAGE PARK GOSPEL HALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.3M
- GCGENERATIONS CHURCH INCone grant, 2023 · $497k
- VCVERITAS CHURCH OF CEDAR RAPIDSone grant, 2024 · $200k
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.
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.
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…
Bible Camping, Inc. is a missions-based camping ministry existing to lovingly confront each camper with his or her need of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ in salvation and to encourage each one to a life of obedience and service…
To spread the Gospel of Jesus the Christ
To preach and propogate the gospel of jesus christ in the united states and throughout the world, to provide christian literature and training materials through various forms of media, and to offer christian leadership and discipleship…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
Teaching and Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Spread the gospel of jesus christ
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sat-7 North America and the most unlike its peers is Praise Land Retirement Village. 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 45 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
96 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. 96 of the 189 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.
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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: The Oscar C Rixson Foundation Inc · Perrin Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Maranatha Foundation Inc · Christian Expansion Inc · Tyndale House Ministries · James E Elliot Charitable Trust · Wheaton College · Word & Deed Foundation of IMMI 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 Believers Stewardship Services 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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