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Cso Inc at a glance

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Cso Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$393kReligion$84kHuman Services$76kYouth Development$47kHealth$45kInternational$37kCommunity Improvement$10kCivil Rights$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$36,500
ATLANTA MISSION$9,000
LIGHTHOUSE$9,000
CAMP BARNABAS$9,000
MACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM$9,000
DETROIT RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES$9,000
REVIVAL TABERNACLE$5,000
DOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN HOPE CENTER$3,000
BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC$3,000
ALL WORTHY OF LOVE$2,000
BREAKTHROUGH$2,000
CRU INNER CITY DETROIT (CREATING OPTIONS TOGETHER)$2,000
YOUTH FOR CHRIST$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW HOPE FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%ATLANTA MISSION: $9k → 13%NEW HOPE FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 14%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $1k → 8%ATLANTA MISSION: $9k → 13%NEW HOPE FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 14%ATLANTA MISSION: $6k → 13%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $500 → 8%ATLANTA MISSION: $6k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $5k → 13%HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $500 → 8%ATLANTA MISSION: $5k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$691k · 29 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
10

Total granted

$691k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+56%

Still filing today

69%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCivil RightsReligionHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $330k · revenue +127%
  • MC
    MACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM
    7× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +36%
  • DR
    Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
    7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • RC
    REVOLUTION CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • GRACE CENTERS OF HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • M(
    MISSIONME (FURTHER CREDIT TO ASAAD FARAJ STATE SPONSORSHIP)
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Refuge of Hope Ministries

Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.

Religion
2
Bread of Life Mission

Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.

Human Services
3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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4
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services
5
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
6
Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Metro Atlanta Inc

Habitat for humanity of northwest metro atlanta, inc. is an affiliate of the americus-based habitat for humanity international. habitat for humanity of northwest metro atlanta, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to…

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7
Bridge of Hope Ministries

Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.

Religion
8
Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge

Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.

Housing & Shelter
9
Home of Grace Corporation

Offer freedom from addiction through christ-centered recovery.

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10
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
11
Habitat for Humanity of Okaloosa County Inc

Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…

Housing & Shelter
12
Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan

Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

23 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. 23 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $330,300 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITYMACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM: $44,300 · Housing & ShelterMACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAMBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $14,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $4,400 · Housing & ShelterCAMP BARNABAS: $43,200 · OtherCAMP BARNABASLIGHTHOUSE: $39,800 · OtherLIGHTHOUSEREVIVAL TABERNACLE: $15,500 · OtherREVIVAL TABERNACLEBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $8,300 · OtherREVIVALTAB: $7,500 · Other+20 more: $43,550 · Other+20 moreATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $44,300 · Human ServicesATLANTA UN…All Worthy Of Love: $9,200 · Human ServicesAll Worthy…CURA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human Services+3 more: $6,000 · Human Services+3 moreDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $41,800 · HealthMALAYKA INTERNATIONAL: $25,100 · Public Safety & DisasterSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $9,500 · ReligionTEACH THE STORY: $6,000 · ReligionDOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC: $11,300 · Food & Nutrition
Housing & Shelter$393,000Other$157,850Human Services$62,500Health$41,800Public Safety & Disaster$25,100Religion$15,500Food & Nutrition$11,300

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 budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $330,300 over 7y, 21% of budgetMACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM: $44,300 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $44,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $41,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMALAYKA INTERNATIONAL: $25,100 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC: $11,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAll Worthy Of Love: $9,200 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $8,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTEACH THE STORY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $4,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOPTIC AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCURA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF PROVIDENCE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds MACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
  • Who funds MALAYKA INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds All Worthy Of Love ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds TEACH THE STORY ↗
  • Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COPTIC AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds CURA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE ↗
  • Who funds PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC ↗

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.

Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Cso Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cso Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 40 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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