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Decker-Fields Foundation Decker-Fields Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.0MEducation$66kArts & Culture$48kHousing & Shelter$30kHuman Services$25kHealth$21kInternational$19kCrime & Legal$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
$3,600
Median grant
8
States reached
$239k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REID SAUNDERS ASSOCIATION$37,000
YWAM$26,000
MUSIC IN WORLD CULTURE$13,000
MISSIONS DOOR$11,520
GRACE POINT CHURCH$6,000
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP$4,800
ELIC$4,500
SOARING HEIGHTS RECOVERY HOMES$3,600
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS$3,600
MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY$2,600
CRU$2,400
HOPE PREGNANCY CLINIC$2,400
SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC$2,400
AM CEN FOR LAW & JUSTICE$2,400
CRISIS CHAPLANCY SERVICES$2,040
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 (FY17–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Salem Leadership Foundation Inc: $3k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 14%Salem Leadership Foundation Inc: $1k → 14%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
OR
WY
CA
CO
MO
KY
TN
DC
OK
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Decker-Fields Foundation Decker-Fields Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 70%.

Decker-Fields Foundation Decker-Fields Foundationlessmore 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 31 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
13

Total granted

$1.3M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+48%

Still filing today

45%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RS
    REID SAUNDERS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $559k · revenue +51%
  • CE
    CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +24%
  • SL
    SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SI
    SEND INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • RT
    REACHING THE HEART OF ZAMBIA
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

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Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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2
Asbury Theological Seminary

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…

Education
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
5
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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6
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
7
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
8
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education
9
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
10
Global Scholars

Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.

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11
Raise Up Global Ministries

Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…

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12
Northeastern Seminary

Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc; the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. 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

17 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. 17 of the 44 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

First Baptist Church: $207,335 · OtherFirst Baptist ChurchYWAM: $82,586 · OtherYWAMMISSIONS DOOR: $77,260 · OtherMISSIONS DOORMUSIC IN WORLD CULTURE: $48,250 · OtherMUSIC IN WORLD CULTUREIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $21,600 · Other+22 more: $132,950 · Other+22 moreREID SAUNDERS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $558,506 · ReligionREID SAUNDERS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC+3 more: $8,246 · ReligionSOARING HEIGHTS RECOVERY HOMES: $18,429 · HealthHOPE PREGNANCY CLINIC: $17,900 · HealthCRISIS CHAPLAINCY SERVICES: $3,170 · HealthCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $33,922 · Youth DevelopmentMULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY: $13,150 · EducationCORBAN UNIVERSITY: $7,700 · EducationDallas Theological Seminary: $2,598 · EducationSALEM ACADEMY: $1,414 · EducationSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $19,521 · Human ServicesENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA: $7,500 · InternationalONE COLLECTIVE: $6,326 · InternationalTHE MCCALL GROUP DBA THE MENTORS' FORUM: $300 · Recreation & Sports
Other$593,981Religion$566,752Health$39,499Youth Development$33,922Education$24,862Human Services$19,521International$13,826Recreation & Sports$300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREID SAUNDERS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $558,506 over 8y, 20% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $33,922 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $19,521 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSOARING HEIGHTS RECOVERY HOMES: $18,429 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHOPE PREGNANCY CLINIC: $17,900 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY: $13,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCORBAN UNIVERSITY: $7,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE COLLECTIVE: $6,326 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAYSTAR US INC: $6,120 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $5,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS CHAPLAINCY SERVICES: $3,170 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $2,598 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERMON ON THE MOUNT INC: $1,511 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSALEM ACADEMY: $1,414 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $1,135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCCALL GROUP DBA THE MENTORS' FORUM: $300 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds REID SAUNDERS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOARING HEIGHTS RECOVERY HOMES ↗
  • Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CORBAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
  • Who funds ONE COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds DAYSTAR US INC ↗
  • Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS CHAPLAINCY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
  • Who funds SERMON ON THE MOUNT INC ↗
  • Who funds SALEM ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS 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.

The Signatry Charitable TrustSD17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Decker-Fields Foundation Decker-Fields Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Decker-Fields Foundation Decker-Fields Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Salem Leadership Foundation: 3% of income from government
  • Corban University: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–25%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Decker-Fields Foundation Decker-Fields 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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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