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Cord Group

The CORD GROUP is a nonprofit, tax-exempt ministry that seeks to reflect the love of jesus christ through providing timely support in the form of helpful resources to the financially or otherwise disadvantaged people of our community and beyond.

$547k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$141k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

83% of Cord Group’s FY2025 grant dollars went to International Generosity Foundation Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Cord Group named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $284k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’20
14
’21
9
’22
9
’23
4
’24
3
’25

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, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$511kInternational$371kPhilanthropy$317kHuman Services$145kHealth$136kEducation$108kYouth Development$31k
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $284,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $546,517 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $262,267 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
$10,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$486k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUBILEE PARTNERS$141,000
INTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION$54,350
BETHEL COMMUNITY EDUCATION$15,000
TWO FISH FOUNDATION$15,000
SPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS$10,400
SERENITY CHURCH$10,000
PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION$10,000
KEYSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH$10,000
REACH THE FORGOTTEN MINISTRY$10,000
NEW CITY KIDS INC$8,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE STOREHOUSE: $54k → 11%THE STOREHOUSE: $25k → 11%THE STOREHOUSE: $23k → 11%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 99% of Cord Group’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 1%.

Cord Grouplessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 14 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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

14
6

Total granted

$1.2M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+38%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JP
    JUBILEE PARTNERS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $347k · revenue +8%
  • SO
    STOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $102k · revenue +435%
  • FM
    FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $64k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +38%
  • BM
    BROWN-HUTCHERSON MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • MA
    MT AIRY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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2
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
3
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
4
Transform Ministries
—
5
Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc
Religion
6
Spiritual Light Ministries
Religion
7
Source of Hope Ministries
Religion
8
New Heart World Ministries
Religion
9
A2 Ministries International Ltd
Religion
10
One Life Ministries
Religion
11
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
12
Oasis Ministries
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Two Fish Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 22 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUBILEE PARTNERS INC: $347,000 · OtherJUBILEE PARTNERS INCKEYSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $58,000 · OtherKEYSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCHSERENITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherFROM THE HEART CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH: $22,000 · OtherSPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN INC: $20,800 · OtherFAITH IN DEEDS INC: $35,000 · OtherFAITH IN DEEDS INCFIGI JEZI: $23,920 · Other+7 more: $74,500 · Other+7 moreINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $317,350 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY F…TWO FISH FOUNDATION: $55,500 · ReligionTWO FISH FOUNDATIONGOD'S GIFT FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyGOD'S GIFT FOUNDA…PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $114,915 · HealthLiving Stones Academy: $93,000 · EducationBethel Community Education: $15,000 · EducationSTOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $102,000 · Human ServicesFORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES: $64,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$606,220Religion$372,850Philanthropy$250,000Health$114,915Education$108,000Human Services$102,000Crime & Legal$64,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUBILEE PARTNERS INC: $347,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $317,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S GIFT FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetPROGRESS NOT PERFECTION OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $114,915 over 3y, 82% of budgetSTOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $102,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLiving Stones Academy: $93,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES: $64,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTWO FISH FOUNDATION: $55,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFAITH IN DEEDS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFIGI JEZI: $23,920 over 2y, 13% of budgetSPIRITUAL CARE CONSULTANTS OF WEST MICHIGAN INC: $20,800 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBethel Community Education: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Edgar and Elsa Prince…Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Two Fish FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…Barnabas FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Edgar and Elsa Prince FoundationMI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Two Fish Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Cord Group funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cord Group. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Cord Group?

    Find your warmest path to Cord Group 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 22 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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