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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. The foundation makes grants to convoy of hope and other exempt 501(c)(3) organizations within the supported class to support their exempt purposes. The foundation will maintain records to…

$455k
Granted FY2019
18
Grants FY2019
16
Organizations funded FY2019
25%
First-time grantees FY2019
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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

6
’17
11
’18
16
’19
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 16
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
6
Total assets, FY2019
$5.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 25% of the organizations Convoy of Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
ReligionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201916$419k25%
FY201811$218k82%
FY20176$218kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$428kFood & Nutrition$389kHuman Services$127kInternational$115kCommunity Improvement$100kEducation$28kYouth Development$26kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Crossroads Community Church$270,0003n/a
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota$100,00020%
Inquiring Systems Inc$100,00012%
Omies Home for Children and Beyond$90,00036%
Mountain View Community Church$70,0002n/a
First Lutheran Church$28,5002n/a
Kerman Christian School Inc$27,50023%
TURNING POINT PREGNANCY CARE dba KERMAN CARE CENTER$27,0002n/a
World Vision International$25,0001n/a
Citadel Ministries Inc$20,00013%
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All grantees of Convoy of Hope Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Crossroads Community Church$270,0003n/a
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota$100,00020%
Inquiring Systems Inc$100,00012%
Omies Home for Children and Beyond$90,00036%
Mountain View Community Church$70,0002n/a
First Lutheran Church$28,5002n/a
Kerman Christian School Inc$27,50023%
TURNING POINT PREGNANCY CARE dba KERMAN CARE CENTER$27,0002n/a
World Vision International$25,0001n/a
Citadel Ministries Inc$20,00013%
Duluth Cross Country Ski Club$15,00015%
San Francisco City Impact$15,0002n/a
ARK Missions International$12,000235%
Kids on A Mission$11,00026%
Our Valley Cares Foundation$10,500212%
Evangel Home Inc$10,00021%
Buenos Amigos Ministry$10,0001n/a
Born Again Body Incdba Bueno Amigos$7,50017%
Loving with Mercy Ministries Inc$5,00014%

Where it is load-bearing

Convoy of Hope Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInquiring Systems Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOmies Home for Children and Beyond: $90,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetKerman Christian School Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCitadel Ministries Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDuluth Cross Country Ski Club: $15,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetARK Missions International: $12,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetKids on A Mission: $11,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetOur Valley Cares Foundation: $10,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetEvangel Home Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBorn Again Body Incdba Bueno Amigos: $7,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetLoving with Mercy Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Convoy of HopeMO23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Convoy of Hope Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Convoy of Hope Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Convoy of Hope Foundation

How much does Convoy of Hope Foundation give?
Convoy of Hope Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $454,500 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Convoy of Hope Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Religion (34%), Food & Nutrition (31%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Convoy of Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Crossroads Community Church ($270k), Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota ($100k), Inquiring Systems Inc ($100k).
Does Convoy of Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Convoy of Hope Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Convoy of Hope, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Convoy of Hope Foundation based?
Convoy of Hope Foundation is based in MO.

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 21 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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