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Christian Alliance for Orphans

Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) exists to unite an alliance in shared initiatives that inspire and equip God's people to care effectively for vulnerable children and families, rooted always in Christian discipleship and the life of the local church.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$20k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$400kYouth Development$30kEducation$28kInternational$22kReligion$12kScience & Tech$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $55,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,000 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.
$20,000
Median grant
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States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE 1312 Collective Inc$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Fostering Hope: $7k → 6%The Pearl Project Inc: $6k → 16%Bethany Christian Services: $10k → 11%HOPE 1312 Collective Inc: $20k → 14%Tides Center for Faith to Action: $96k → 10%Tides Center Faith to Action Initiative: $55k → 10%Tides Center Faith to Action Initiative: $50k → 10%Tides Center for Faith to Action: $12k → 10%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

WA
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
TN
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $19k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$14k · 74% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Program: Global Movements Initiative · Program: Innovation and Excellence

Russia and Neighboring States$5k · 26% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Program: Innovation and Excellence

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

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.

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Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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A Child's Hope International

To motivate and mobilize the church and community to care for the orphans and vulnerable children.

Human Services
3
Orphan Outreach

To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.

International
4
Christs Hope U S a Inc

Empowering orphaned and vulnerable children to break the cycles of extreme poverty, AIDS, and spiritual brokenness through family-based care and discipleship in Jesus Christ.

Human Services
5
Christian Alliance for Orphans

Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) exists to unite an alliance in shared initiatives that inspire and equip God's people to care effectively for vulnerable children and families, rooted always in Christian discipleship and the life of…

Human Services
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Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
7
Childcare Worldwide

Childcare Worldwide (CW) transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education. We connect sponsors with children through Christ-based life centers.…

International
8
Visiting Orphans Incorporated

Organization was established in 2005 as a way to fulfill the biblical mandate given in James 1:27 to Visit orphans and widows in their distress. Today, the mission has expanded to include caring for families and communities, orphan…

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9
Onechild Global

One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.

International
10
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
11
Youth for Christ International Ministries

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.

Religion
12
Global Orphan Hope

Global Orphan Hope seeks to serve by caring for orphans around the world. Global Orphan Hope believes that every child deserves to be loved, to feel secure, and to have a place to call home. When a child cannot remain with his/her family,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Christian Services; the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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. 16 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES CENTER: $212,703 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERHOPE 1312 COLLECTIVE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPE 1312 COLLECTIVE INCBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $21,110 · Human Services+3 moreTides Center for Faith to Action: $120,000 · OtherTides Center for Faith to ActionCHRIST IN YOUTH INC: $30,000 · OtherCHRIST IN YOUTH INCBoston College Sponsored Programs: $10,000 · OtherBoston College Sponsored ProgramsStep Ahead Inc: $10,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · EducationCLAPHAM GROUP INC: $7,500 · EducationIDENTITY MISSION: $8,000 · InternationalFEEDING THE ORPHANS INC: $8,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of International China Concern Limited: $7,000 · InternationalBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $12,000 · ReligionWILDWOOD HILLS INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyChild Hope International: $7,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$263,813Other$160,000Education$27,500International$23,000Religion$12,000Philanthropy$8,000Arts & Culture$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIDES CENTER: $212,703 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST IN YOUTH INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStep Ahead Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDENTITY MISSION: $8,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWILDWOOD HILLS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING THE ORPHANS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOrphanos Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLAPHAM GROUP INC: $7,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE AUSTIN: $7,110 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of International China Concern Limited: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetChild Hope International: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Pearl Project Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Natl Christian Charit…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Christian Alliance for Orphans funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian Alliance for Orphans. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Pearl Project Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 18 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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