· Private foundation
Daniel J & Ardith Koster Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of DANIEL J & ARDITH KOSTER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP AO WA KIYA | $140,000 |
| PARTNERS IN EVANGELISM | $45,000 |
| WOMEN AT RISK INTL | $35,000 |
| SCRIPTURE MEMORY MOUTAIN MISSION | $22,000 |
| GRACE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SEND INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| HUGS HORSES CHILDREN YOUTH RANCH | $5,000 |
| UNITED INDIAN MISSION INTL | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +78% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CACAMP AO-WA-KIYA2× · 2021–2024 · $145k · revenue +78%
- SMSCRIPTURE MEMORY MOUNTAIN MISSION5× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +93%
- RFREASONS FOR HOPE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $41k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TLTRANSFORMATION LIFE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SBSOUTHLAND BIBLE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
To Identify, Affirm, Train, and Mobilize Ephesians 4 evangelists to equip the church for evangelism.
Torch of Christ Ministries provides evangelism, education, and missional support through the dissemination of information with the primary intent of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to all.
CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
International Biblical Training is a teaching, training and equipping religious ministry. IBT staff provide theological teaching and training for the purpose of making Christian disciples who in turn train and disciple others in…
A training ministry that equips the saints more focusing on preparing leaders and ministers of the word for the work of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.
R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries exists to preserve, perpetuate, and disseminate the doctrinal and theological Bible teachings of R. B. Thieme, Jr. Our purpose is to make available his publications and recordings worldwide without…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Letter Bible and the most unlike its peers is Transformation Life Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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. 18 of the 33 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 CAMP AO-WA-KIYA ↗
- Who funds SCRIPTURE MEMORY MOUNTAIN MISSION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds REASONS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Ministries ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER SCHOOL OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds H U G S for Horses and Children ↗
- Who funds UNKNOWN NATIONS ↗
- Who funds WARNING LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATION LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Tentmakers Bible Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUE LETTER BIBLE ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF WYOMING 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 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Daniel J & Ardith Koster Foundation 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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