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Blessings International

Blessings International is a non-profit organization whose mission is to heal the hurting by providing pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and medical supplies to traveling medical teams and local clinics; to build healthy communities by treating the poor and victims of endemic medical problems, disease, or overwhelming disasters; to transform…

$3.1M
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$70kHealth$51kReligion$48kHuman Services$20kHousing & Shelter$16k
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $44,213, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,140,672 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,096,459 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.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$9,112
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Commission to Every Nation$12,000
Changed Lives Christian Cente$9,538
Prestonwood Pregnancy Center$9,112
Rachel House Pregnancy Resour$7,376
Willow Pregnancy Support$6,187
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $13k → 14%Changed Lives Christian Cente: $10k → 16%Changed Lives Christian Cente: $7k → 16%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.7M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$831k · 47% · 76 grants

Stated purpose: MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES · ORPHANAGE SUP

Sub-Saharan Africa$578k · 33% · 34 grants

Stated purpose: MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES · MISSIONARY SUPPORT

South America$161k · 9% · 17 grants

Stated purpose: MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES

East Asia and the Pacific$122k · 7% · 11 grants

Stated purpose: MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES · MISSIONARY SUPPORT

Middle East and North Africa$37k · 2% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES

North America (Canada and Mexico)$8k · 0% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$8k · 0% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES

Russia and Neighboring States$6k · 0% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES

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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$161k · 5 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$161k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-12%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesReligionHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CT
    COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $48k · revenue +5%
  • CL
    CHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +43%
  • RH
    RACHEL HOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • BC
    BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -24%
  • YB
    YOUR BEST PATHWAY TO HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -7%
  • J3
    JOHN 316 MISSION
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

1
Christ Clinic

Providing reliable, accessible, high quality medical services to the most vunerable people in our community.

Health
2
Choices Medical Clinic Inc

Choices medical clinic, inc., a christian non-profit clinic, has offered no-cost abortion alternatives to patients since 1999 - including perinatal hospice care for preborn infants with a terminal diagnosis.

Health
3
Shared Christian Ministries

Our mission is to provide quality comprehensive free or low cost medical care for the uninsured, whatever their race or religion. The Clinic's services are available to any uninsured adult, 18 years old or older.

Health
4
Cross Timbers Pregnancy Care Center

Cross timbers pregnancy care center is a christian ministry dedicated to preserving the value of human life by providing abortion alternatives, practical assistance, and education to the cross timbers area.

Health
5
Pregnancy Care Center

The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.

—
6
Life Choices Medical Center

Christian organization offering a hopeful future by empowering women and men to make life-affirming decisions

Human Services
7
Life Choice Care Center Inc

To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.

Human Services
8
Cornerstone Ministry Village Inc

Cornerstone Ministry Village is primarily a people resource, seeking to strengthen and support families by providing compassion, counsel, encouragement, and empathy. Their mission is to provide spiritual, emotional, and physical resources…

—
9
Hope Medical

Hope Medical of Washington is a faith-based, non-profit community medical clinic providing compassionate, evidence-based health care services to empower people to make informed decisions. We offer free, confidential services including free…

Human Services
10
First Choice Women's Medical Center Inc

To provide christ-centered medical, parenting, and life-skill services to extend help, offer hope, and promote healing.

—
11
Crossroads Pregnancy Care

Crossroads Pregnancy Care is a Christ-centered and life-affirming ministry, providing hope, help, and healing to families affected by unplanned pregnancies or hurting from past abortions, and promoting sexual integrity. Social services…

Health
12
Agape Women's Services

Womens Services is a Gospel-centered,life-affirming medical clinic for the Johnson City area that provides free services to women, including pregnancy and STI testing, sexual health consultations, and limited ultrasounds. We also provide…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rachel House Pregnancy Resource Centers Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Medical Response Foundation. 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

16 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOAVES & FISHES MINISTRIES INC: $69,595 · ReligionLOAVES & FISHES MINISTRIES INCCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION: $48,000 · ReligionCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATIONCHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $16,467 · Human ServicesCHANGED LIVES CHRIST…BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $13,487 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & F…JOHN 316 MISSION: $7,000 · Human ServicesJOHN 316 MISSIONRACHEL HOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC: $15,405 · HealthRACHEL HOUSE P…Hope Center for Crisis Pregnancy dba Hope Womens Resource Clinic: $11,745 · HealthHope Center fo…PRESTONWOOD CARING PEOPLE NETWORK: $9,112 · OtherPRESTONWO…YOUR BEST PATHWAY TO HEALTH: $8,230 · OtherYOUR BEST…WILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC: $6,187 · Arts & Culture
Religion$117,595Human Services$36,954Health$27,150Other$17,342Arts & Culture$6,187

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION: $48,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGED LIVES CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $16,467 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetRACHEL HOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC: $15,405 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $13,487 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Center for Crisis Pregnancy dba Hope Womens Resource Clinic: $11,745 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYOUR BEST PATHWAY TO HEALTH: $8,230 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC: $6,187 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

Mission Pre-Born IncVitamin Angel Allianc…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mission Pre-Born IncIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mission Pre-Born Inc · Vitamin Angel Alliance Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Blessings International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blessings International. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Blessings International?

    Find your warmest path to Blessings International 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 10 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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