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Blazing Trees

We manage support-raising missionary funds and provide prayer, encouragement, and resources to leaders scattered across the nations.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $11,894, the rows itemized in this filing. The $64,135 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,241 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$1,090
Median grant
8
States reached
$468k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Global Catalytic Ministries$2,400
Fond du Lac Christian School$1,949
Individual grant recipient$1,555
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,090
Graceview Church$850
Global Gates$500
City Church Network$500
Audio Scripture Ministries$250
Individual grant recipient$100
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Sanctuary Bay: $2k → 10%Standing Stone: $2k → 11%Global Gates: $500 → 17%Global Catalytic Ministries: $2k → 5%Fond du Lac Christian School: $2k → 9%Carlos Newton: $100 → 12%City Church Network: $500 → 14%Graceview Church: $850 → 13%Michelle Nikzad: $1k → 13%Andrea Loya: $1k → 11%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

WI
MI
NY
OH
CA
TN
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $45k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Russia and Neighboring States$19k · 41% · 2 people

Stated purpose: Mission Work

Sub-Saharan Africa$14k · 31% · 4 people

Stated purpose: Mission Work

South Asia$4k · 9% · 3 people

Stated purpose: Mission Work

South America$4k · 8% · 3 people

Stated purpose: Mission Work

Middle East and North Africa$3k · 6% · 1 person

Stated purpose: Mission Work

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2k · 5% · 2 people

Stated purpose: Mission Work

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. 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.
03Its field
03the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
0/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL CATALYTIC MINISTRIES INC: $2,400 · OtherGLOBAL CATALYTIC MINISTRIES INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,555 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,090 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGraceview Church: $850 · OtherGraceview ChurchCITY CHURCH NETWORK: $500 · OtherGlobal Gates: $500 · Other+2 more: $350 · OtherFOND DU LAC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $1,949 · EducationFOND DU LAC CHRIST…
Other$9,945Education$1,949

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOND DU LAC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $1,949 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUDIO SCRIPTURE MINISTRIES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds FOND DU LAC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds AUDIO SCRIPTURE MINISTRIES ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Blazing Trees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blazing Trees. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to Blazing Trees?

    Find your warmest path to Blazing Trees 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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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