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Deeper Life Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$529kHealth$111kYouth Development$70kHousing & Shelter$19kPhilanthropy$13kHuman Services$12kEducation$11kInternational$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
$3,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$114k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOUCH THE WORLD MINISTRIES$20,500
LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$18,000
INSPIRE SPORTS CAMP$10,500
NEW HOPE$5,500
NJ FAMILY FOUNDATION$5,098
NCS - BERGEN COUNTY CO BRYAN KABOT$5,000
SERVANT'S HEART$4,500
CHRISTIAN OVERCOMERS$4,400
STAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES$3,500
DAWN TREADER SCHOOL$3,500
RENEW LIFE CENTER$3,000
STREET HOPE ALIVE$2,750
THE NAVIGATORS$2,000
LEGACY MINDED MEN CO JOE PELLEGRINO$2,000
HOPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES$1,000
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 (FY22–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $600 → 8%RENEW LIFE CENTER: $4k → 12%RENEW LIFE CENTER: $3k → 12%STREET HOPE ALIVE: $3k → 12%RENEW LIFE CENTER: $3k → 12%STREET HOPE ALIVE: $2k → 12%STREET HOPE ALIVE: $2k → 12%RENEW LIFE CENTER: $1k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$774k · 17 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -72% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$774k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-72%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalEducationOther
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

  • SO
    STAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +41%
  • LP
    LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +104%
  • IS
    INSPIRE SPORTS CAMPS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $52k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • EN
    ELEVATE NJ
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -89%
  • HC
    HAWTHORNE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • M
    M633
    one grant, 2024 · $891 · revenue -72%
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
Source of Hope Ministries
Religion
2
Hope Alive Transformational Ministr
Health
3
House of Hope

We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.

Human Services
4
House of Hope Ministry Inc

Church organization

Religion
5
Hood Church

Nondenomintional frontline ministry team of passionate men & women who love jesus christ. our mission is to link individuals who are struggling with alcohol and controlled substances with community resources, and to provide a faith-based

Health
6
Reachout Ministry of Hope By a New and Living

Church religious services. to inspire life to people through spreading the gospel.

Crime & Legal
7
Hope Outreach Ministries for Every-1

The Christian ministry provides food and supplies to the needy while teaching life skills.

Youth Development
8
The Hope Project

The Hope Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that exists to reach hurting and hopeless people. We offer a wide range of resources that help give people a hand up out of the seemingly hopeless situations they are in.

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9
Born Again Ministries

To provide or connect low -income or ex-offenders affordable houses who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to have a bighter future

Health
10
Transformation Life Center Inc

To rehabilitate men and women back into society.

Religion
11
New Life Ministries

To provide housing and living assistance to those affected by drug addiction and provide financial assistance and counseling to those in need. to help prepare women for full independence on their own.

Housing & Shelter
12
Journey of Hope Ministries

Biblical counseling and teaching

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Elevate Nj. 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

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 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOUCH THE WORLD MINISTRIES: $311,989 · OtherTOUCH THE WORLD MINISTRIESSTAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $160,254 · OtherSTAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INCLIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $109,250 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INCSERVANTS HEART: $29,500 · Other+14 more: $80,489 · Other+14 moreINSPIRE SPORTS CAMPS INC: $51,830 · Youth DevelopmentRENEW LIFE CENTER INC: $10,750 · Human ServicesSTREET HOPE ALIVE INC: $6,250 · Human ServicesBUILDERS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $600 · Human ServicesSTREET 2 STREET: $5,500 · ReligionHOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT: $3,500 · ReligionGospel Trick Shot Ministries Inc: $500 · ReligionWINGS OF REFUGE INC: $8,500 · InternationalELEVATE NJ: $2,500 · Education
Other$691,482Youth Development$51,830Human Services$17,600Religion$9,500International$8,500Education$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $160,254 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $109,250 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetINSPIRE SPORTS CAMPS INC: $51,830 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetNEW HOPE INC: $19,250 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN OVERCOMERS INC: $12,800 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetRENEW LIFE CENTER INC: $10,750 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWINGS OF REFUGE INC: $8,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSTREET HOPE ALIVE INC: $6,250 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSTREET 2 STREET: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetELEVATE NJ: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDERS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGospel Trick Shot Ministries Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALL THE KINGS HORSES MINISTRY INC: $500 over 1y, 2.8% 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 STAR OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRE SPORTS CAMPS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHRISTIAN OVERCOMERS INC ↗
  • Who funds RENEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WINGS OF REFUGE INC ↗
  • Who funds STREET HOPE ALIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds STREET 2 STREET ↗
  • Who funds HOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE NJ ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds M633 ↗
  • Who funds BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Gospel Trick Shot Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALL THE KINGS HORSES MINISTRY 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.

Columbia Bank Foundat…Robert a Skead & Mild…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Columbia Bank FoundationNJ19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbia Bank Foundation · Robert a Skead & Mildred L Skead Ch · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Deeper Life Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deeper Life Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Hope Christian Services: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get 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 · 0–5%
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 Deeper Life Inc?

Find your warmest path to Deeper Life Inc 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 27 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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