· Public charity
Damon Thompson Ministries Inc
Advancing the kingdom of god and spreading the gospel through preaching, teaching, and evanelizing.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $280,631 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $306,110 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,479 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HOMESTEAD CHURCH | $57,600 |
| NORTH GATE CHURCH | $52,300 |
| PERIOCHORESIS MINISTRIES | $34,000 |
| DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES | $34,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,859 |
| THE RESTING PLACE | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,272 |
| JEFF GORE MINISTRIES | $9,000 |
| LEGACY ACADEMY | $7,600 |
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 (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- THTHE HOMESTEAD MOBILE5× · 2017–2021 · $320k
- DSDUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $231k · revenue +691%
- THTHE HOMESTEAD CHURCH5× · 2018–2024 · $106k
Funded once
- HCHOPE CHAPEL OF CAROLINA2× · 2018–2023 · $48k
- THTHE HOMESTEAD MOBILEone grant, 2022 · $40k
- GHGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -14%
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.
Evangelizing through the gospel of jesus christ
Christian ministry and training
Preaching the gospel of jesus christ
Proclaim the gospel of jesus christ
Christian Books and other materials publiched and given away
To spread the word of god throughout the country
Teaching and Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
To reach as many as possible with the gospel message of gods word
Present the gospel
Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ by any available means, including building and funding churches worldwide, funding foreign missionaries, funding for Bible Colleges, and for other similar ministries.
Religious teaching and counseling
Proclaim the gospel of jesus christ
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Revival Inc and the most unlike its peers is Worldcast Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 37 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 DUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds W WYMAN KING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EQUIP THE NATIONS MISSIONS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BILL JOHNSON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MARK CASTO MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds POTTERS HOUSE SALUDA ↗
- Who funds WORLDCAST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BURNS 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Damon Thompson Ministries Inc 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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