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Degrafft Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2023
17
Grants FY2023
10
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$60kInternational$15kArts & Culture$7kPublic Benefit$4kCrime & Legal$3kHuman Services$2kHealth$483Youth Development$400Other$0
02FY2023 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
10
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITANS PURSE$7,200
ATLANTA ROAD ALLIANCE CHURCH$6,900
INTL NETWORK OF CREATIVE ARTS$900
JUDICIAL WATCH$700
AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE$500
STORYTELLERS CREATIVE ARTS$300
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$250
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$200
SEE JESUS$200
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$170
D JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES$156
YOUNG AMERICAN FOUNDATION$100
CHEA ALUMNI CLUB$100
PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL$95
HELPING UP MISSION$92
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $125 → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $125 → 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

MI
PA
NJ
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
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.
$90k · 26 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
4

Total granted

$90k
$925

Still filing today

46%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionPublic BenefitCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +134%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +141%
  • FR
    FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • EP
    EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $600
  • SJ
    SEE JESUS
    one grant, 2018 · $200
  • CC
    CAMPUS CURSADE FOR CHRIST
    one grant, 2019 · $100
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
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
2
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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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
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
5
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
6
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
7
Bible Thinker Inc

Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…

Religion
8
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
9
God's Image
Human Services
10
Explore God Network
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11
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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12
Servant Foundation

The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Christian Research Institute Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 31 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROVIDENCE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $22,900 · OtherPROVIDENCE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCOVENANT CHURCH OF NAPLES: $13,200 · OtherCOVENANT CHURCH OF NAPLESATLANTA ROAD ALLIANCE CHURCH: $11,100 · OtherATLANTA ROAD ALLIANCE CHURCHEVANGELICAL CHURCH OF ANNAPOLIS: $8,700 · OtherEVANGELICAL CHURCH OF ANNAPOLISAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $2,265 · Other+16 more: $5,855 · Other+16 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $14,890 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSESEEJESUSNET INC: $800 · Religion+2 more: $822 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF CREATIVES: $5,700 · Arts & CultureJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,575 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $750 · Public BenefitFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1,020 · Human ServicesCompassion International Incorporated: $360 · InternationalPRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $267 · Crime & Legal
Other$64,020Religion$16,512Arts & Culture$5,700Public Benefit$4,325Human Services$1,020International$360Crime & Legal$267

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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $14,890 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF CREATIVES: $5,700 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,575 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1,020 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEEJESUSNET INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc: $522 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $483 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $360 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Research Institute Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $267 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $118 over 2y, 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF CREATIVES ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds SEEJESUSNET INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc ↗
  • Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Christian Research Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Servant FoundationKS14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Albert R & Louise C Gillespie Charitable Trust UA Dated 2797 · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Degrafft Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Degrafft Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
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 31 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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