· Public charity
Convoy of Hope Foundation
CONVOY OF HOPE FOUNDATION was formed to support convoy of hope, a 501(c)(3) organization, and other charitable organizations in its supported class.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Convoy of Hope Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Convoy Of Hope, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Convoy of Hope Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $455k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC | $100,000 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $100,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA | $50,000 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CHURCH | $40,000 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $30,500 |
| KERMAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $22,500 |
| FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH | $21,000 |
| DULUTH CROSS COUNTRY SKI CLUB | $15,000 |
| TURNING POINT PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $15,000 |
| OMIE'S HOME FOR CHILDREN & BEYOND | $12,500 |
| BUENOS AMIGOS MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| THE ARK MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $7,000 |
| KIDS ON A MISSION | $6,000 |
| TELEIOS MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| LOVING WITH MERCY MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA2× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +78%
- TPTURNING POINT PREGNANCY CARE dba KERMAN CARE CENTER2× · 2018–2019 · $27k · revenue +142%
- AMARK Missions International2× · 2018–2019 · $12k · revenue +1% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- WVWORLD VISION INTERNATIONALone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CMCITADEL MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -89%
- BABORN AGAIN BODY INCDBA BUENO AMIGOSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +108%
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Establish sustainable centers for alleviating poverty and multiplying disciples in third-world environments.
ACCI serves pioneering Christians, empowering them to proclaim the gospel, fulfill their God-given visions, and advance the kingdom of God. ACCI longs for a world where lives are transformed through the Holy Spirit, where new disciples are…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Evangelist
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Our mission is in our name - Reaching Souls. Our core driving force, the reason we exist as an organization, is to reach souls for Christ. Our strategic purpose is to reach the maximum number of people for Christ in the least amount of…
Our mission is to provide traditional churches with consultation, pastors and counseling.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
Church planting among the least evangelized peoples of the world through recruiting, training, sending, and serving field workers.
Mission work in mexico, vibrant church-planting ministry in rural hard to reach parts of mexico. providing facilites for spiritual retreats and events, biblical training
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Born Again Body Incdba Bueno Amigos. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds OMIES HOME FOR CHILDREN AND BEYOND ↗
- Who funds KERMAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT PREGNANCY CARE dba KERMAN CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITADEL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Duluth Cross Country Ski Club ↗
- Who funds San Francisco City Impact ↗
- Who funds ARK Missions International ↗
- Who funds Kids on A Mission ↗
- Who funds OUR VALLEY CARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVANGEL HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BORN AGAIN BODY INCDBA BUENO AMIGOS ↗
- Who funds TELEIOS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Loving with Mercy Ministries 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: Convoy of Hope · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Convoy of Hope 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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