· Public charity
Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort Inc
The corporation is organized and operated for the purpose of providing immediate assistance to victims of natural disasters within the united states.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $809k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALO ALTO CHURCH OF CHRIST | $523,571 |
| BELLEVUE CHURCH OF CHRIST | $519,056 |
| NEW BERN CHURCH OF CHRIST | $415,361 |
| FORT GIBSON CHURCH OF CHRIST | $193,311 |
| WESTGATE CHURCH OF CHRIST | $173,333 |
| FREMONT CHURCH OF CHRIST | $158,631 |
| SAND SPRINGS CHURCH OF CHRIST | $145,852 |
| LAKE ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST | $132,693 |
| EAST HILLS CHURCH OF CHRIST | $116,360 |
| NEBRASKA CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST | $105,608 |
| CHURCH OF CHRIST NORTHRIDGE | $104,805 |
| TENTH AVE CHURCH OF CHRIST | $87,692 |
| MAPLEWOOD CHURCH OF CHRIST | $83,698 |
| EASTPOINT CHURCH OF CHRIST | $82,793 |
| HAZEL ST CHURCH OF CHRIST | $79,523 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of your 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.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 6% 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.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 42 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.
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: The Houston Food Bank · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort Inc 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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