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City on a Hill 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.

$132k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Youth Development$384kReligion$205kInternational$154kHuman Services$40kHealth$37kEducation$24kHousing & Shelter$5kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$761k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SONRISE CHURCH$35,000
UNITED ADORATION$30,000
NEW HOPE GIRLS INC$21,067
BRIDGE OF GRACE$20,000
CITY CHURCH$10,000
AS OUR OWN$8,527
GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY$5,000
THE PRINCE'S TRUST - KING'S TRUST INTERNATIONAL$1,359
LOVE FORT WAYNE$800
YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN IN$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 17%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $20k → 12%BRIDGE OF GRACE: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$850k · 15 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$850k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-21%
+16%

Still filing today

47%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AO
    AS OUR OWN NFP
    7× · 2018–2025 · $89k · revenue +5%
  • HM
    HOE MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +62% · 28% of their budget
  • LF
    Love Fort Wayne Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • PC
    PATHWAY CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • HOPE INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +16%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
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
3
Global Outreach International Inc

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.

International
4
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
5
Faith Baptist Bible College

Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.

Education
6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
Manna University

Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.

Education
8
InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA

In response to God's love, grace, and truth, the purpose (mission) of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is to establish and advance at colleges and universities witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior…

Religion
9
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
10
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
11
Indiana Wesleyan University

Indiana wesleyan university is a christ-centered academic community committed to changing the world by developing students in character, scholarship, and leadership.

Education
12
Youthfront Inc

Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth for Christ of Northern Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hoe Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%63%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,545

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.

04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW HOPE GIRLS INC — $363,577 · OtherNEW HOPE GIRLS INCIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEMMANUEL COMMUNITY CHURCH INC — $60,000 · OtherEMMANUEL COMMUNITY CHURCH INCSONRISE CHURCH — $35,000 · OtherSONRISE CHURCHCITY CHURCH — $35,000 · OtherCITY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $22,000 · Other+7 more — $43,655 · Other+7 moreAS OUR OWN NFP — $88,527 · InternationalAS OUR OWN NFPHOE MINISTRIES INC — $60,000 · InternationalHOE MINISTRIES IN…+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalUNITED ADORATION INC — $30,000 · ReligionLove Fort Wayne Inc — $23,300 · ReligionBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE — $5,000 · Human ServicesVERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC — $37,100 · PhilanthropyGreenville College — $15,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $1,200 · Education+2 more — $1,000 · EducationYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC — $10,525 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$649,232International$153,527Religion$53,300Human Services$45,000Philanthropy$37,100Education$17,200Youth Development$11,525

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAS OUR OWN NFP — $88,527 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHOE MINISTRIES INC — $60,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetBRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC — $37,100 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED ADORATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLove Fort Wayne Inc — $23,300 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGreenville College — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC — $10,525 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR EDUCATIONAL MEDIA NETWORK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuntington University — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 AS OUR OWN NFP
  • Who funds HOE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds BRIDGE OF GRACE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES CENTER INC
  • Who funds VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC
  • Who funds UNITED ADORATION INC
  • Who funds Love Fort Wayne Inc
  • Who funds Greenville College
  • Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE
  • Who funds NEIGHBORLINK FORT WAYNE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds STAR EDUCATIONAL MEDIA NETWORK INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds Huntington University
  • Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary

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.

Brotherhood Mutual Foundation IncIN19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brotherhood Mutual Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 City on a Hill 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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