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Charis Focus Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH | $76,400 |
| CRU GLOBAL INC | $18,450 |
| CITYJOY | $2,700 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN-ST PAUL | $2,000 |
| BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH | $600 |
| THE VILLAGE CHURCH | $513 |
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 (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +108% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TITUTAPONA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +108%
- NLNEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +147%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- NLNEW LIFE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +48%
- RFRIVER FALLS PREGNANCY HELPLINEone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +14%
- CTCity To City Miamione grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Our mission is to glorify god and serve our community by assisting people in finding freedom from their past, peace in their present, and hope for their future.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
Dakota hope offers services that empower women and men to make choices about sexual health and pregnancy that will help them and their children to have a bright future. these services include pregnancy tests, ultrasound, and evidence-based…
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
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…
North central university is a christian university with a commitment to academic excellence.
To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
Our mission is to display Gods love to children, birth parents, and families by providing Christ-centered adoption services that have an eternal impact by growing forever families.
Protecting a child's right to live and be loved by loving moms and dads.
Minnesota family council (mfc) is a non-profit christian organization that is dedicated to strengthening minnesota families by advancing biblical principles in the public arena, for the glory of the lord jesus christ and the good of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Life Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Chaddah Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 TUTAPONA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FALLS PREGNANCY HELPLINE ↗
- Who funds MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARRIVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROBBINSDALE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHADDAH INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
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: Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Graco Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Charis Focus 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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