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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.

$455k
Granted FY2019
18
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

6
’17
11
’18
16
’19
0
’21

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

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2019 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k7 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH$100,000
INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC$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
SAN FRANCISCO CITY IMPACT$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $50k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $50k → 14%EVANGEL HOME: $5k → 19%EVANGEL HOME: $5k → 19%TURNING POINT PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $15k → 19%TURNING POINT PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $12k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$672k · 12 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$672k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+108%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
    2× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +85%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT PREGNANCY CARE dba KERMAN CARE CENTER
    2× · 2018–2019 · $27k · revenue +142%
  • AM
    ARK Missions International
    2× · 2018–2019 · $12k · revenue +1% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • WV
    WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • CM
    CITADEL MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -87%
  • BA
    BORN AGAIN BODY INCDBA BUENO AMIGOSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +108%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Verticle Living Ministries

To equip disciples of Jesus Christ to balance and live their lives to glorify God in every area of life; spirituall, personally, communally and physically by

Religion
2
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

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…

Religion
3
Training Pastors International

Training pastors in third world countries

Religion
4
International Christian Partners Llc

Childrens Home and Ministry in India

Religion
5
Oceans of Mercy

Missionary work in the nation of India

Religion
6
Bowlin Ministries Nc

Evangelist

Religion
7
World Indigenous Missions Inc

Engaged in missionary training, organizing churches, evangelism, and related Christian activities.

Religion
8
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
9
Churches in Missions Inc

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...

Human Services
10
Yucatan Outreach Ministries

Starting and maintaining missions/churches in Mexico

Religion
11
Imago Dei Ministries
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12
Reaching Souls International Inc

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…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teleios Ministry; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONVOY OF HOPE: $389,127 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPEOMIES HOME FOR CHILDREN AND BEYOND: $90,000 · InternationalOMIES HOME FOR CHILDREN AND BEYONDCROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH: $270,000 · OtherCROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCHMOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CHURCH: $70,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CHURCHFIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $28,500 · OtherFIRST LUTHERAN CHURCHWORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · OtherWORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL+3 more: $28,500 · Other+3 moreLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $100,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOC…TURNING POINT PREGNANCY CARE dba KERMAN CARE CENTER: $27,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POIN…EVANGEL HOME INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesEVANGEL HOME…INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING…KERMAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $27,500 · ReligionCITADEL MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · ReligionARK Missions International: $12,000 · ReligionLoving with Mercy Ministries Inc: $5,000 · ReligionTELEIOS MINISTRY: $5,000 · ReligionDuluth Cross Country Ski Club: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsSan Francisco City Impact: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUR VALLEY CARES FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Philanthropy
International$479,127Other$422,000Human Services$137,000Community Improvement$100,000Religion$69,500Recreation & Sports$15,000Youth Development$15,000Philanthropy$10,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $389,127 over 4y, 0.2% of 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 HopeDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Convoy of HopeMO23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Convoy of Hope · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Convoy of Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Convoy of Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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