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Blue Adobe Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $209k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $666k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAARS INC | $228,500 |
| HIGH SIERRA FELLOWSHIP CANCER FUND | $146,700 |
| CAMP OKIZU | $65,000 |
| IJN MEDICAL MINISTRY | $61,000 |
| BAKERSFIELD PREGNANCY CENTER | $57,000 |
| RENO SPARKS GOSPEL MISSION | $56,000 |
| JESUS FILM PROJECT | $51,400 |
| GOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS | $42,300 |
| CROSS PURPOSE | $42,000 |
| PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE | $24,500 |
| VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $24,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $22,810 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND | $17,500 |
| COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY INTERNATIONAL | $16,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +51% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- JIJAARS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $829k · revenue +127%
- IJIN JESUS NAME MEDICAL MINISTRY5× · 2020–2024 · $319k · revenue +379% · 77% of their budget
- GEGOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $220k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +22%
- MHMagdalene Hope Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +53%
- CECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF COLORADO INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -9%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
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…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
Christar international serves as a catalyst to the network of christar ministries by facilitating and encouraging partnerships with churches who sen dout men and women who proclaim the gospel for life-giving transformation in communitiesw…
(See Schedule O for description.)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance Defending Freedom and the most unlike its peers is Wounded Heroes Fund Kern County. 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 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 63 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.
- Who funds JAARS INC ↗
- Who funds IN JESUS NAME MEDICAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Awaken INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTER ROBERTS ↗
- Who funds LIFEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Austin's House ↗
- Who funds CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Magdalene Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds City of Refuge ↗
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: Blue Adobe Foundation · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Amicus Foundation · Kern Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Blue Adobe 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.
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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