· Public charity
Cityserve International
The mission of CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL is to train, equip and mobilize the local church to live out the gospel of jesus christ in its community through compassion.
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.
The 16 grants below total $1,977,927 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,750,792 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $772,865 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $343k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITYSERVE NETWORK | $633,748 |
| NEIGHBORHOODS TO NATIONS | $500,000 |
| SPOKES OF HOPE | $301,500 |
| NATIONAL FAITH ADVISORY BOARD | $115,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| CANYON HILLS CHURCH | $54,000 |
| 180 DISASTER RELIEF | $53,500 |
| THE CITYSERVE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNITED IN PURPOSE | $49,990 |
| AACC - AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN COUNSELORS | $43,516 |
| A21 USA | $30,000 |
| CHURCH OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| VOICE OF THE VETERAN | $16,673 |
| MEDIC CORPS | $15,000 |
| GIVING HOPE | $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 (FY20–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $402k on the FY2024 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.
Stated purpose: SUPPORT TO ESTABLISH CITYSERVE ISRAEL
Stated purpose: UKRAINE ORPHANAGE SUPPORT · UKRAINE CRISIS SUPPORT - BIBLICAL TEXT BILLBOARDS IN UKRAINE
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. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of Cityserve International’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- NTNeighborhoods to Nations4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +135% · 53% of their budget
- TATHE ARISE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $312k · revenue +25%
- NCNo Child Hungry Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $245k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- CHCANYON HILLS ASSEMBLY OF GODone grant, 2018 · $500k
- SOSPOKES OF HOPEone grant, 2022 · $350k
- NYNEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $256k · revenue +43%
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.
The mission of cityserve international is to train, equip and mobilize the local church to live out the gospel of jesus christ in its community through compassion.
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This mission of Forge is to expand Gods Kingdom by challenging people to fully devote their lives to God and equipping them to live lives of active ministry. Our goal is to set hearts on fire and lives on purpose.
The Urban Alternative is a Christian Ministry that seeks to equip, empower, and unite Christians to impact individuals, families, churches, and communities for the rebuilding of lives from the inside out.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 13 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 57 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 CITYSERVE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Neighborhoods to Nations ↗
- Who funds THE ARISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF URBAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds No Child Hungry Inc ↗
- Who funds United in Purpose ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds MISSION ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds CityServe KC Co ↗
- Who funds A21 USA INC ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Giving Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Dream Center Co ↗
- Who funds One Love Initiative dba Circuit Riders ↗
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: Servant Foundation · World Vision Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Cityserve International 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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